You may disagree with him, but he is probably the one politician you can't call a hypocrite. Even though, as you point out, he is from a gulf district his is not for federal disaster relief and has called for the elimination of FEMA. He has also spoken out for years against federally subsidized flood insurance, which he claims encourages people to build homes in areas that are more likely to be hit by hurricanes.

You obviously missed the part in his plan about the half a trillion or so dollars in defense department cuts, including bringing our troops home from Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Germany, and the 100+ other countries where we have them stationed.

My point is that prior to Vietnam a true declaration of war by Congress was the rule, and straying from this rule leads to bad things. There were certainly exceptions, another one of which was Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates, but now these exceptions are used as precedent to justify undeclared wars, occupations, and skirmishes at the whim of the President.

Let's pretend it's 1808. Do you think that the Iraq war would be seen as constitutional? If not, then what has changed? Certainly not the Constitution.

Agreed! I've always considered Wizard of Wor the "Original Deathmatch".