Just for the sake of devil's advocacy:
Hasn't Congress authorized every request for more money to fund the war? Isn't there an implicit statement of support for/declaration of war in that action?
Reframed another way, if the majority of Congress agreed that Bush had violated the Constitution, I guarantee we'd be looking at impeachment hearings. The fact that we haven't implies that more people in Congress support the war in principle (or at least did), but did not do so vocally because of political expediency. But they can't take the Constitutional issue too seriously becauce Kucinich just put out a bill for impeachment and he's being laughed off the floor. Perhaps they didn't want to support the war openly so that they could pin the blame on someone else if it failed. Now there's a good way to enter a war.
Now, before the beatings begin, let me get out my suit of armor.
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