Posted on 05/22/2011 11:39:08 AM PDT by John Semmens
Republican demands that President Obama comply with the War Powers Act will be ignored, says Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
President Obama is already in violation of the War Powers Act, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ken) argued. The civil war in Libya did not meet the Acts criteria for allowing the President to take military action. It was not a national emergency nor did the President seek and obtain Congressional authorization as former President Bush did before deploying troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Even if it were determined that the Libyan situation did constitute a national emergency, the War Powers Act gives the President a limited 60 day window within which he must obtain Congressional approval to continue to use military force, Paul added.
Senator Levin sees things differently. The War Powers Act was passed in 1973 by a Democratic Congress to protect the country from being dragged into an unnecessary war by a Republican President, Levin asserted. Its attempted use by Republicans to try to tie the hands of President Obama is politics at its worst.
Arizonas Senator John McCain (R) expressed an even more expansive version of Presidential power. In my view, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, McCain said. Any President, Republican or Democrat, should be able to deploy armed forces whenever and wherever he deems necessary.
Friday, May 20 marked the 60th day since US forces began hostilities in Libya.
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So according to Levin, that law is only good for democrats to use. What a moron!
Satire alert.
This is far to close to reality ....
I will bet that this idiot does not even realize how stupid what what he said sounds to normal people. Apparently spending decades in DC turns folks stupid. The entire old guard, Republican and ‘Rat, needs to go the hell home.
The War Powers Act was passed in 1973 by a Democratic Congress to protect the country from being dragged into an unnecessary war by a Republican President,
That is exactly how the ruling elites in Washington District of Corruption looks at it. Tell me, which Republican with any standing on Capital Hill will do anything? McCain? McConnell? Boehner? Hell no, it is too much in their interests to just ignore the law and continue with an illegal war. The only ones saying anything are the “TeaPartyers” and they are being ignored. Ignored by the Republican ‘leadership’ and smeared the media.
Hey, at least you read the whole piece before commenting! You get E for Effort on that one. FReegards, Z
our republic has many domestic enemies that need to be dealt with.
“Levin says he wants to bring to the floor by next week a bipartisan resolution authorizing military action in Libya.”
“Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has supported the Libyan action and advocated a broader mission. “The decision to intervene militarily in Libya was right and necessary,” McCain said.....”
"The population of Libya's third largest city of Misrata has been surrounded on all sides."
As it stands, the War Powers Act is the law of the land, and Obama, the Represtentatives, and Senators all have the obligation to obey the law, whether or not they like the law, and regardless of their personal opinion of the law’s constitutionality. Obama is clearly in violation of the War Powers Act, at least with regard to the original commitment of the armed forces in Libya. The House of Representatives should impeach him for it, and the senate should convict him.
It ain’t gonna happen, though, because they don’t have the nation’s I best interest at heart.
As an aside, McCain should k ow better. I’ve lost what little respect I had for him as a senator.
exactly ....
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