(05-25-2019, 03:01 PM)robkelk Wrote:(05-25-2019, 01:00 PM)Epsilon Wrote: ... After all, if the executive gets to decide how the military spends it's budget...
I suspect that would take a Constitutional amendment to become true.
No, it would take a Constitution amendment to become law. To become true, all it would need is a President who runs the country like he runs his business*; a Senate that lets him do it because they'd rather see the country run into the ground than give "the Democrat Party" anything; a House of Representatives that passes bill after bill which then gets sent to the Senate, where Turtle Man** lets them wait until the cows come home; and a Supreme Court whose composition skews a little further toward "clones from the Federalist Society bastard farm" every time Republicans get their way.
* That is, bark out belligerent, fat-assed orders and expect his close personal toadies to link them to Euclidean space-time, even the ones that blatantly contradict each other.
** "Enter Turtle Woman. She is like a turtle in every way, except that she is rich."
-- Charles Ludlam and Bill Vehr, Turds in Hell (1969)