cheap. yesterday, president obama summoned harry reid and mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi and john boehner all over again. and it's important that these meetings happen. right? because article 1 section 8 of the constitution is crystal clear. the constitution gives congress the job of making actual decisions about war. the old congressionally approved military authorization to use force in iraq, back from the last iraq war, that has functionally expired. remember our war in iraq ended there in 2011 and we were very formal about the whole thing. arguably the president still has leftover congressionally approved authorization to use military force around the world against al qaeda and the other folks who planned 9/11, but that 2001 authorization doesn't help with this iraq issue, either, since al qaeda formally disowned this isis sunni group earlier this year. the 2001 post-9/11 authorization to use military force, that shouldn't apply to that group in iraq. under the war powers resolution