Thursday, March 12, 2015

Does Constitution Whisper for the Senate and President to Get Along?

    I sit down to write about how, if we are to do things the way the Constitution outlines, the Senate should vote on the Iran deal.
   I'm barely started, when I realize the funner story is that, if we are to follow the way the Constitution paints that things should happen, then just maybe the Senate and President Obama need to get along and work together. Yes, to me, that venerable document seems to be suggesting as much.
   It's only a little more than one line, but listen to what the Constitution says. It starts by talking about the president, and it says, "He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur."
   I don't know, picturing the the president taking advice from the Senate seems to suggest they sit down and work together as a team. Now, in the days when the Constitution was written, that might have seemed possible. But . . .
   Then, enter the parties.
   And, I wonder if partisan division has ever been so divisive as it is at present. Sit down and cordially come up with an international agreement? Not likely in today's world. I would love to see that happening, though. I would love to see the Constitution being loved so much that the participants would say, "If a little love between us is what is being suggested -- if the Constitution so much as insinuates that -- we will make it happen."

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