Who was Robert Taft?
The Rockefeller Rebublicans, a.k.a Moderate Republicans, Liberal Republicans, Internationalist Republicans, Globalists, Neo-Conservatives took over the Republican Party and remolded it from the isolationist days of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Isolationism died with Senator Robert Taft in 1953. “As I see it, members of Congress, and particularly members of the Senate, have a constitutional obligation to reexamine constantly and discuss the foreign policy of the United States. If we permit appeals to unity to bring an end to that criticism, we endanger not only the constitutional liberties of the country, but even its future existence.” — Sen. Robert Taft, R-Ohio, “Mr. Republican” ——– http://www.populist.com/index.html The Surrender of Congressional Power to a President During War — Not a good idea. Now that US forces are fighting in Iraq, we are told that our duty is to fall in behind the president and support the troops in the field. That is nonsense. Excerpt: Those who would
