At least one democrat is printing t-shirts for 2012...
Posted on 03/21/2011 4:19:23 PM PDT by Nachum
Amazing. Not that The One would try an end-around Congress; that’s been his policy M.O. ever since the GOP took back the House. No, what’s amazing is that President Present took sole ownership of this very risky mission instead of forcing Congress to share the blame by demanding an authorization for the operation. If he had gone to Reid and Boehner and asked for an AUMF, he’d have a good chance of getting one. Progressives would have been nervous about another adventure and some tea partiers would have balked at the cost, but Democrats wouldn’t want to defy a president who’s up for reelection next year and Republicans wouldn’t want to undermine their hawkish credentials. It probably would have passed. (As I right this, the British House of Commons has approved the UK’s airstrikes by a vote of 557-13.) And if it didn’t, even better: Then Obama’s completely off the hook for whatever might unfold in Benghazi as Qaddafi’s troops roll in. If 100,000 people get put to the sword, hey — go complain to Congress. The White House wanted to act but that damned Article I tied his hands.
Instead, what we have now are a few sincere constitutionalists and war opponents complaining about Obama’s power grab alongside a bunch of others who are grandstanding even though many of them surely preferred not to be consulted beforehand. Most pols don’t like to take tough votes and this one would have been exceptionally tough: Vote yes and you’ll be blamed for whatever evils emerge from the post-Qaddafi Pandora’s box, vote no and you’ll be blamed for greenlighting a Qaddafi-led massacre of Libyan civilians. Obama, in full cowboy mode, spared them that difficulty — and gosh, are they angry about it. Whatever.
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Bush would have been impeached by now.
Impeach that slithering POS..
Adventurist Unilateralist Cowboy Diplomacy Obama. It has a certain ring to it.
He did it within 48 hours. Forget it. He's still a POS.
That.
There are lots of reasons to dislike Zero.
This ain’t one of them.
Not doing it a month ago unilaterally is.
But at the end of the day he’s C-in-C and Congress can sit and spin.
Impeach and remove from office, now!
It may be that a Secretary of State who shall be unnamed handed this hot potato(e) to him. Opening the door for a Biden accession and a Hillary one too.
I was so tired of those illegal, evil wars terrorizing women and children of color.
I feel much better now.
At least one democrat is printing t-shirts for 2012...
Did you hear Kucinich on B OReilly tonight? He said O isn’t a king, he’s the president and congress wasn’t informed. Never thought I’d agree with DK on something like this.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day ;)
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