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White House skips legal deadline on Libya (Obama "skips" the law)
ap ^ | 5/20/2011 | ap

Posted on 05/21/2011 5:06:53 AM PDT by tobyhill

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To: sport
Countdown until Obama leaves Office: 609 days as of May 21, 2011.

obama
It's the gas and groceries stupid! And Bernanke says the labor market in 'a very deep black hole'

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Zer0's been neither crowned nor ordained
but his reign has been far from restrained
When folks wake up tomorrow
they'll find to their sorrow
who's in line to receive the royal pain

Hope and Change.... Tragic.


21 posted on 05/21/2011 5:49:34 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: tobyhill
What do we need Congress for? We have a king now. The first monarch of Northern America. The people should not rise up against the king, we should be ushering Congress out of office reminding them that kings don't need the approval of the serfs, the king is the law, the king does not go begging for approval.

We should rid ourselves and the king of the parasites in Congress who will not rise in defense of the people that elected them.

There is only the king, we need no other.

Impeach Congress.
22 posted on 05/21/2011 5:57:57 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Long Live the King.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

I’ve beensaying this for a while, so I’ll say it again. Just about everyone needs to be unelected in D.C. Short of that, things are going to go from bad (real bad) to worse.


23 posted on 05/21/2011 6:57:14 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: tobyhill

“This is not the Congress you are looking for.” (I Be da Won and Can Only Be)


24 posted on 05/21/2011 7:11:15 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: tobyhill
Mr. Soetoro is taking liberties with the document he swore to protect and defend yet refers to the Constitution as a "charter of negative liberties". Barry has set a new high for an elected official who holds the Constitution in such low esteem. Maybe Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd should have bequeathed his "pocket version" the Constitution to Barry.
25 posted on 05/21/2011 7:11:36 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: SERKIT

nobama was heard to say...”constitution...schmonstitution...”


26 posted on 05/21/2011 7:20:11 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
-- Would somebody tell me what the "downside" is for not following the Constitution? --

It's selectively not applied. The general game being played is "avoid accountability." Congress is winning, so far.

Congress let Bush create a military court, also against the Constitution. The president is not a natural born citizen, also against the constitution, lots of federal and state laws that infringe fairly pedestrian keeping and bearing of arms; the war on (some) drugs is fought from a federal level; the Commerce Clause is construed to give the federal government the power to compel individuals to enter into commerce; the list goes on and on and on.

We are living in "the downside." I don't believe there is any downside to the politicians or their armies of minions (government bureaucrats of all stripe).

27 posted on 05/21/2011 7:20:55 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: The Louiswu

Is the War Powers Act an actual law, or just a resolution? If it is law, the House law should begin impeachment proceedings immediately for violating the law.


28 posted on 05/21/2011 7:46:59 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: tobyhill

Obama has more in common with Jefferson Davis than he does any American president.


29 posted on 05/21/2011 7:49:17 AM PDT by Crawdad
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To: tobyhill

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541-1548)[1] is a non-binding Joint Resolution intended to restrict the power of the President to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress. The resolution was adopted in the form of a United States Congress joint resolution; this provides that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or in case of “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”[citation needed]

The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto.

Despite the apparent non-ambiguity of its language, the War Powers Resolution has been regularly ignored by presidents of both parties,[2][3]some even declaring their belief that the act is unconstitutional.[4][5]


30 posted on 05/21/2011 7:49:22 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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“The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto.”

Thus meaning it is law.

31 posted on 05/21/2011 8:12:30 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

He skipped it while he was skipping rope with little girls on the BathHouse lawn.

No news there, really.


32 posted on 05/21/2011 8:15:24 AM PDT by melancholy (Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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To: tobyhill

Those stupid Libyans. Don’t they understand that Obama and the Democrats are only killing them because they want them to have better lives?


33 posted on 05/21/2011 8:17:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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34 posted on 05/21/2011 9:19:14 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: tobyhill

Congress is gonna have to send their “enforcement agents” after his scrawny butt.


35 posted on 05/21/2011 9:21:31 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (An election is not a (national) suicide pact.)
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To: tobyhill

Impeach.


36 posted on 05/21/2011 9:29:05 AM PDT by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
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To: All; tobyhill
Congress will support Obama and ignore non-compliance with the War Powers act. They are spineless cowards. These things only apply to Republican presidents.

The press and Obama's Democrat co-conspirators will throw up a fog of "partisanship" and "racism" to give him cover.

Every single one of us should contact our congresspeople and senators, whatever the party, to be heard on this issue.

37 posted on 05/21/2011 9:53:00 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: tobyhill

The House of Representatives can just defund it anytime. Boehner needs to warn Barry that he’s going to do it.


38 posted on 05/21/2011 9:55:46 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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