Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman MB | Judge: Geoff Lundeen
DA
Republican divisions means CR will pass in the squo but Obama will come out on top – that’s key for successful budget negotiations
Fiscal Times 9/13 “The "Trading Places" Budget Debate--Director's Cut” http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/09/13/Debt-Ceiling-Trading-Places-Budget-Debate-Directors-Cut
In today’s budget debate, …the closing bell was ringing.

The plan is a huge win for tea party support
Grim 2013 (Ryan Grim, June 11, 2013, “Divisions Over National Security State Scramble Old Alliances, Political Coalitions,” Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/nsa-leak_n_3421415.html)
The contours of the …similar patterns of partisanship.

Snowballs – saves their influence in Congress
Cillizza 2012 (Chris Cillizza, December 4, 2012, “Is the tea party dead? Or just resting?,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/04/whither-the-tea-party/)
And Jon Lerner, a Republican consultant … in the movement.

Strong Tea Party wrecks budget compromises
Politico 7/19 (Mitch McConnell's fractured Senate GOP caucus , Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/senate-republicans-splintering-94451.html#ixzz2amsQ0772)
These Senate GOP factions …caves to their spending demands.

Destroys the economy--- consumer confidence, dollar strength, credit rating
Brown 13 (Abram, 1/4, "GOP's Threat to Shutdown the Government is a Dangerous Strategy," www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/01/04/the-gop-is-already-threatneing-to-shutdown-the-government-to-win-spending-cuts/)
That Republicans are already … would be much different.

Global economic crisis causes nuclear war
Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic … ancillary to those views.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Baylor Evans-Chokhani | Judge: Kearney
China favors concessions and peaceful resolution—regime instability and empirics
Asia Times 11 (Sudha Ramachandran, “China plays long game on border disputes,” Jan 27, 2011, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MA27Ad02.html)
A Sino-Tajik border agreement that was ...only when the USSR disintegrated that Beijing moved quickly to achieve resolution. 

No Indo-Pak conflict- energy cooperation and new governance
Sam Tranum 6/25/13, MA from the University of Chicago in IR and a journalist covering energy and politics in South Asia, 6/25/13, "India-Pakistan Energy Cooperation Could Get Boost Under Sharif," World Politics Review, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/13049/india-pakistan-energy-cooperation-could-get-boost-under-sharif
Pakistani and Indian officials met earlier this month ...might help to normalize relations and make future conflicts less likely.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman MB | Judge: Geoff Lundeen
Courts and Congress won’t exercise true restraint over the executive- it will be lip service restraint at best and re-affirms executive power granting legitimacy to sovereign manipulation of law
Eric A. Posner Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law AND Adrian Vermeule Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School “The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic”, Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 Questia pp 3-5

Some commentators argue that …tension with the law.2

Manipulated sovereignty creates shifts from mere governmentality and biopolitics to death-centric thanatopolitics which collapses the distinction between liberal democracy and authoritarianism
Lindsay Anne Hall MA Political Science “Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying” May 7, 2007 (Research paper presented to faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)¶ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05152007-134833/unrestricted/etd.pdf

Agamben, on the other hand… ¶ about life is really worth preserving.

The alternative is a process that rejects that affirmative’s mechanism of authority shifting between sovereign branches. Voting negative is a way engage in micro-political resistance against sovereign manipulation of law that creates the guise of restrictions that serve a larger purpose of granting legitimacy to sovereign exceptions in law
Bent Flyvbjerg Aalborg University, Department of Development and Planning  and Tim Richardson University of Sheffield, Department of Town and Regional Planning Dept of Planning is broad studying the development of society with emphasis in social science 2002— “Planning and Foucault In Search of the Dark Side of Planning Theory” http://flyvbjerg.plan.aau.dk/DarkSide2.pdf

3. Towards Foucault Instead of side-stepping …g, for example, institutions, constitutions and structural issues.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman MB | Judge: Geoff Lundeen
The affirmative’s discussion of policy is based on a positivist mode of “knowing” China. China is not something that we stand back and observe- this constructs a mode of thought that can only relate to China as a threat.
Pan, PhD degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University, 2K4 Chengxin, The "China Threat" in American Self-Imagination: The Discursive Construction of Other as Power Politics, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 29, 2004

No scenario for asian war.
Pempel, Prof. PoliSci @ UC Berkley, 2010
TJ, “More Pax, Less Americana in Asia”, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 10.3
Without much imagination a wealth …relegated to the policymaking back burners.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman MB | Judge: Geoff Lundeen
Drones crush terrorists and solve militant takeover in Pakistan
Nadim 2012 (Hussain Nadim, visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, August 8, 2012, "How Drones Changed the Game in Pakistan," National Interest, nationalinterest.org/how-drones-changed-the-game-pakistan-7290)
Regardless of what the news … get to burn a few American flags.

No central Asian escalation or war.
Collins and Wohlforth, 2004 (Kathleen A., Assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and William C., Associate professor of Government at Dartmouth College and serves as a Senior Advisor to NBR’s Eurasia Program, “Defying ‘great game’ expectations,” Strategic Asia, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~govt/docs/15-Central20Asia-press.pdf)
The popular great game lens for … regional and domestic stability in Central Asia.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman MB | Judge: Geoff Lundeen
Other states not likely to have tech for at least a decade – those that do will have useless tech
Zenko 13 – Douglas Dillon Fellow at CFR Micah Zenko, Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies, Council Special Report No. 65, January 2013, http://www.cfr.org/wars-and-warfare/reforming-us-drone-strike-policies/p29736
Based on current trends, it is unlikely … armed drones in the near term. 

Restricting the use of drones is impossible – unrestrained use is inevitable.
Steigerwald ‘13 (Lucy, “The Inevitability of Drones in the US and Abroad”, Anti War, 4-29-13, http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/04/29/the-inevitability-of-drones-in-the-u-s-and-abroad/, RSR)
The proliferation of drones … mechanisms for surveillance at home.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Baylor Evans-Chokhani | Judge: Kearney
Restriction means prohibition of action
Jean Schiedler-Brown 12, Attorney, Jean Schiedler-Brown and Associates, Appellant Brief of Randall Kinchloe v. States Dept of Health, Washington,  The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington, Division 1, http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/Briefs/A01/68642920Appellant20Randall20Kincheloe27s.pdf
3. The ordinary definition of the term "restrictions" ...but he did not agree to restrict his license.

Authority is the power that an agent has been delegated
Kelly, 2003  (judge for the State of Michigan, JOSEPH ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff, and LULA ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and DANIEL P. BENNETT, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants., No. 236749, COURT OF APPEALS OF MICHIGAN, 259 Mich. App. 187; 673 N.W.2d 776; 2003 Mich. App. LEXIS 2649; 93 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 244; 92 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1557, lexis)
Applying agency principles, a principal is responsible...in carrying out the principal's business." Id. at 1348

The AUMF only authorized force against those involved in the 9/11 attacks
Cronogue 12, JD Duke Law
(Graham, A NEW AUMF: DEFINING COMBATANTS IN THE WAR ON TERROR, scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1294andcontext=djcil)
The AUMF authorized the President to use ...are necessarily outside of Congress’s authorization

The affirmative authorizes force against those who enjoy close and well established collaboration with Al-Qaeda or the Taliban, even if they were not involved in 9/11.  This is an expansion of authority, not a restriction
Cronogue 12, JD Duke Law
(Graham, A NEW AUMF: DEFINING COMBATANTS IN THE WAR ON TERROR, scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1294andcontext=djcil)
My proposal for the new AUMF would appear...but it does a better job than Representative McKeon’s of heeding President Lincoln’s warning.

Tournament: UTD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Baylor Evans-Chokhani | Judge: Kearney
No scenario for nuclear terror---consensus of experts
Matt Fay 13, PhD student in the history department at Temple University, has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from St. Xavier University and a Master’s in International Relations and Conflict Resolution with a minor in Transnational Security Studies from American Military University, 7/18/13, “The Ever-Shrinking Odds of Nuclear Terrorism”, webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HoItCUNhbgUJ:hegemonicobsessions.com/3Fp3D902+andcd=1andhl=enandct=clnkandgl=usandclient=firefox-a
For over a decade now, one of the most oft-repeated threats...many alarmist assessments indicate it should.

Everyone hates al Qaeda—won’t sell to them.
Mueller 9 – Prof Political Science @ Ohio State University, John, “The Atomic Terrorist?”, Paper Prepared for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, April 30, http://www.icnnd.org/research/Mueller_Terrorism.pdf
In addition, al-Qaeda is unlikely to be trusted ...even with its host in Afghanistan, the Taliban government

No chance of building a successful nuke—experts are on our side.
Mueller 9 – Prof Political Science @ Ohio State University, John, “The Atomic Terrorist?”, Paper Prepared for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, April 30, http://www.icnnd.org/research/Mueller_Terrorism.pdf
Some observers have insisted that it would be “easy” for terrorists ...fabricate a bomb or IND “is far-fetched at best.”

No nuclear retaliation
Korb 10 (Lawrence J. Korb “Obama's Nuclear Policy Enhances America's Moral Position, Security” http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/04/26/obamas-nuclear-policy-enhances-americas-moral-position-security.html 4/26/10)
The policy of not using nuclear weapons against nonnuclear ...we would have to retaliate on a conventional basis.

Collapse is critical to solve warming
The University of Utah, 2009 (Cites study by Tim Garrett, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences, “Is global warming unstoppable?” November 22, http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=112009-1)
Nov. 22, 2009 - In a provocative new study, a University of Utah scientist argues that rising...to change the future course of civilization." 

Rapid tipping points mean warming will cause extinction quickly
Hansen ‘9, heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University (James, December, Storms of My Grandchildren, ix)
Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization ... These and other science matters will be clarified in due course.

Growth causes extinction
Barry, 2008
(Glen, PhD in Land Resources from UW-Madison and President and Founder of Ecological Internet, “Economic Collapse and Global Ecology,” Jan. 14, http://www.countercurrents.org/barry140108.htm)
Given widespread failure to pursue policies sufficient ...eliminated even as new opportunities emerge in solar energy and environmental restoration. 

Economic growth is unsustainable – resource scarcity, land use, global warming, and overconsumption
Trainer, 07 – Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of NSW (Ted, “We can't go on living like this”, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author.asp?id=1973)
Several lines of argument lead to this conclusion...Yet the present level is grossly unsustainable.

Economic growth causes war, collapse has no impact
Boehmer, 2010 (Charles R., Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas El Paso, “Economic Growth and violent international conflict: 1875-1999,” Defence and Peace Economics, Volume 21, Issue 3, June)
The theory set forth earlier theorizes that economic growth ...China may be more likely to escalate a war given its recent national performance. 

Biological weapons won’t be used and won’t cause extinction.
Mueller, 2005 (John, Professor of political science at Ohio State University, “Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration,” International Studies Perspectives, 6, 208-234)
Properly developed and deployed, biological weapons could indeed, if thus far only in theory, kill hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people. The discussion remains theoretical because biological weapons have scarcely ever been used even though the knowledge about their destructive potential as weapons goes back decades, even centuries in some respects (the English, e.g., made some efforts to spread smallpox among American Indians in the French and Indian War) (Christopher, Cieslak, Pavlin, and Eitzen, 1997:412).
Belligerents have eschewed such weapons with good reason:biological weapons are extremely...spread back on the attacker (OTA, 1993:48–49, 62; Broad and Miller, 1998; Easterbrook, 2002).

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitman MB | Judge: Geoff Lundeen
Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive directive ending CIA targeted killings.

CP Solves the aff
Zenko 13 - Douglas Dillon Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He currently serves as vice chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Terrorism. Previously, he worked for five years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Micah Zenko, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign relations, Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 31, April 2013, http://www.cfr.org/drones/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pentagon/p30434
The president should …how others use drones.