...why did Republicans in Congress not just vote once, but vote a second time to give Obama the power to declare an American citizen an enemy of the state and detain that person indefinitely without due process?
This is the $64,000 question that Republicans like Congressman Billy Long, Michele Bachmann, todd Akin, and Vicky Hartzler need to answer. Long and the others voted for the National Defense Authorization Act with its indefinite detainment language the first time it came up for the vote. When Senator Rand Paul's bill to remove the indefinite detainment came to the House for a vote, these Republicans cast a vote of solid support to give Obama great tyrannical power that defies our Constitution.
Why would you want to give Obama such power if you are the Republican party? That's something to ponder.
Do I believe Barack Obama is dangerous? Yes, which is exactly why these Republicans should have voted against handing him indefinite detainment powers and stuck to Article III Section III of the Constitution and the right to due process. This is why Republicans like Democrats need to be kicked out of office this year. They accuse Obama of destroying the Constitution and then they go do something like this.
You can't defend stupidity. Stupidity is handing one of the most dangerous presidents in my lifetime tyrannical power to detain his political enemies.
If the Republican party would drop it's patronage to Abraham Lincoln, who I might add detained his political enemies without due process, and looked to little r Republican (anti-federalist) Thomas Jefferson who feared he would be indefinitely detained under John Adam's Sedition Act for inspiration, we wouldn't have to worry about these things.
Of course, we know there are few in the GOP these days that care much about Jefferson's brand of little r Republicanism, which is why we must ask why in the first place.
The following is a list who voted a second time to give Barack Obama more power by voting against Senator Paul's legislation to repeal the indefinite detainment language.
"Clay, I am proud to have made your acquaintance, and also know you are a committed patriot who's not just messin' around! Thank you!" - Doug Burlison, Springfield, MO City Councilman
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