War Authorization Bill

++Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California,has submitted in the House a new Authorization of Military Force to deal with ISIS. The Democrats had submitted such legislation in December but Boehner sent the House on recess.

++John McCain complained recently that President Obama had not sent "wording" for a new AUMF to the Senate, even though the President had promised and made mention of this in his state of the union address.

++We saw how both parties ducked on President Obama's request for a similar resolution just after Syria used chemical weapons on its population.

++President Obama maintains the 2002 AUMF covers him on ISIS but others disagree.

++Schiff legislation has a three year life-span and prohibits the use of American ground forces. The so-called war against ISIS has gone since August, cost billions of dollars and 3,000 American troops have been deployed.

++If we are to have perpetual war, it is about time Congress have skin in the game. We have made war too easy for this country so much so that it is the first knee-jerk response to any crisis.

++President Obama is going to submit a military budget that increases Pentagon spending by 8%. Remember we spend on the military, intelligence and the terrorism complex more than the rest of the world combined. 

++To put this in perspective, the ferocious Vladimir Putin's defense budget is 50 billion dollars. That's less then 1/10th of America's declared defense budget.