Debt Ceiling, Libya, Taxes Spur New Orwellianism U.S. News & World Report (blog)

07.07.11

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The Senate has bogged down in its attempt to pass a nonbinding and nondescript resolution that accepts the Obama legal fiction that the military operations currently underway in and over Libya are not “hostilities.” Such tortured terminology allows the administration to circumvent the letter and spirit of the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional authorization for military operations that extend beyond 60 days. It also frees the legislative branch of its constitutional obligation to hold the executive to account.

Not to be outdone, Republicans have practiced some “Newspeak” of their own. If the “farce” in the Democratic -controlled Senate could be called “When Is a War Not a War?” the Republican version could be titled, “When Is Tax is Not a Tax?”—or, to be fair to all sides—“When is Repeal of a Subsidy a Tax Increase?” Republican Sen. Tom Coburn from Oklahoma triggered this linguistic battle when he offered an amendment to rescind the ethanol subsidy. Coburn saw his measure as a means of raising revenue that could help reduce the nation's debt . [Check out cartoons on the national budget and deficit.]

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