Tournament: Clarion | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty CP | Judge: Joe Patrice
Text: The United States Senate and House of Representatives should adopt a concurrent resolution to set a date for the expiration of their authorization for the use of military force whenever the President of the United States requests authorization for the use of military force.
Competition: The counterplan solves better and avoids the risk of politics. 

Concurrent Resolution Solves WITHOUT using statutory restriction. Their authors, Ackerman and Hathaway 11:
 Yale Law School Professors, 11 (Bruce and Oona, “LIMITED WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION: IRAQ AND THE CRISIS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEGALITY,” Michigan Law Review, February 2011, p. Lexis)  /bgb 11/1/13

We have begun by discussing …waging limited war.

The plan and the perm both link to politics.  Their authors: 

Ackerman and Hathaway 11, Yale Law School Professors, 11 (Bruce and Oona, “LIMITED WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION: IRAQ AND THE CRISIS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEGALITY,” Michigan Law Review, February 2011, p. Lexis)  /bgb 11/1/13

Finally, there is the statutory …President Obama is no exception.

Tournament: Clarion | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty CP | Judge: Joe Patrice
A. Immigration reform will pass --- it’s Obama’s top priority
Eleanor Clift, 10-25-2013, “Obama, Congress Get Back to the Immigration Fight,” Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/25/obama-congress-get-back-to-the-immigration-fight.html

But now with the shutdown …side of history and demography.    

B. The plan reverses these dynamics—sparks an inter-branch fight derailing the agenda
Douglas Kriner, Assistant Profess of Political Science at Boston University, 2010, After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War, p. 67-69

Raising or Lowering Political Costs … behind him in the international arena

C. Ag industry’s collapsing now---immigration’s key
Alfonso Serrano 12, Bitter Harvest: U.S. Farmers Blame Billion-Dollar Losses on Immigration Laws, Time, 9-21-12, http://business.time.com/2012/09/21/bitter-harvest-u-s-farmers-blame-billion-dollar-losses-on-immigration-laws/

The Broetjes and an increasing …according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

D. Extinction
Lugar 2k Chairman of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Member/Former Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee (Richard, a US Senator from Indiana, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. “calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability,” pg online @ http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/lugar.html)

In a world confronted by global … health of our planet.

Tournament: Clarion | Round: 2 | Opponent: Liberty CP | Judge: Joe Patrice
Death and misfortune are inevitable – the joy of life comes in accepting things as they are – plans to save the world only bring more suffering
Slabbert 1 Jos, Taoist teacher and philosopher, “Tao te Ching: How to Deal with Suffering” http://www.taoism.net/theway/suffer.htm

Dealing with loss Express yourself completely…damage we will do.

By embracing political action, the affirmative loses connection with the Tao
Tao for Life 10 ( Dec. 12 2010 “American Politics and the Taoist Mind” http://taoforlife.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/american-politics-and-the-taoist-mind/
        
 The Tao Te Ching …function as it could.

Thus the alt. Reject the action of the 1ac and embrace the inaction of wuwei. Only this allows for any solvency.
Kirkland 96 Russell Kirkland, Associate Professor of Religion (and Asian Studies), “The Book of the Way,” 24-29, http://kirkland.myweb.uga.edu/rk/pdf/pubs/DAODE.pdf

The Teachings of the …thwart its unceasing operation.

We believe in the Tao. However, to be educational we will also engage the debate on the policy level as they wish to