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It's super easy to defeat this kind of constraint. Just claim that if we don't act immediately, the bad guys will kill freedom. There's no time for a GAO! You w
by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's super easy to defeat this kind of constraint. Just claim that if we don't act immediately, the bad guys will kill freedom. There's no time for a GAO! You want to jeopardize the eternal fate of freedom and the triumph of evil because you want a budget proposal!?
Put that on CNN and Fox News. Now the old people want war. Smart people are caught wasting their time in an engineered debate about whether there is or isn't time to first plan a budget. While everyone is riled up, Congress side steps the whole thing and we just begin with whatever military operations they wanted.
- Pyxl101 11y agoIt takes a while to go to war or enter armed conflict at scale (on smaller scale, certain force units like Marine Expeditionary Units and certain commando teams can move pretty quickly). The President should have the authority the Constitution gives him to do that. I'd just like to see the GAO rushing alongside that process to prepare expected financial outcomes, to be shared with American citizens and press who will be evaluating the pending action.