Last time I checked Ms Pelosi lacked executive authority to ride a plane that says USAF on the side

There is some document or other which details the structure of the US govt.

I seem to remember some guys named Madison, Adams, Monroe, Hamilton working on it, and sending it off for review to a guy named Jefferson who added 10 more items. Presumably the other guy in Paris, Franklin, took a look and had some ideas. We can thus assume some people who had some pretty good experience in ruling, crisis management, government, freedoms and their protections, and individual rights came up with some thoughts.

Most of these thoughts have both signified, and served.

We've done all right.

It's not luck.

Thus we come to this:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Bush lacks the authority to invade Iran without specific approval from Congress, a fresh challenge to the commander in chief on the eve of a symbolic vote critical of his troop buildup in Iraq.

Pelosi, D-Calif., noted that Bush consistently said he supports a diplomatic resolution to differences with Iran "and I take him at his word."

At the same time, she said, "I do believe that Congress should assert itself, though, and make it very clear that there is no previous authority for the president, any president, to go into Iran."

Completely wrong and any president should challenge this as a CONFRONTATION.

Worse is Murtha who is proposing that congress pass legislation mandating where troops go and how long they can go there.

Words and actions by both individuals are designed to USURP the executive authority of the president as mandated by the Constitution.

Intolerable for ANY president, and blatantly unconstitutional.

Frankly, I would PREFER to see a declaration of war, and a congressional vote if not, but one should not mistake the lack of these actions for what the Constitution says about who is the Commander in Chief. Worse still, the President has brought this low state of affairs on himself by not holding people like Franks and Rumsfeld to the same level of responsibility that Lincoln held Mclellan, and Pope, and Burnside, and Halleck, and Fremont as both a military leader AND a politician (including premature emancipation), just to name a few.

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