Posted on 05/27/2011 4:07:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to prohibit ground troops from being sent to Libya and only narrowly defeated a measure to force President Barack Obama to lay out plans to end the Afghanistan war, in moves that show the limits of congressional support for military involvement in overseas conflicts.
The U.S. military's actions on three fronts—Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq—are wearing on the public, polls show, and lawmakers are leery of additional open-ended military commitments amid a severe budget crunch.
The killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last month is also adding to the reassessment of the country's military priorities.
Mr. Obama committed U.S. forces in March to an international coalition to stop Libyan Col. Moammar Gadhafi from cracking down on an uprising against his rule. Mr. Obama has long said he wouldn't send U.S. ground troops into Libya, a position he repeated this week in London. But the ongoing U.S. involvement in a military action that Congress never authorized has left U.S. lawmakers eager to go on record against ground troops and make a statement about the limits of their support.
By 416-5, the House voted to add a ban on ground troops in Libya to a defense authorization bill that sets the Pentagon's budget.
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Even if this had passed, I seriously doubt that Obama would have complied with it. His Arrogancy has virtually no regard for the Congress and will ignore or bypass them at every turn.
The last President to have acted like that was King Andrew.
Good
I would have said Teddy Roosevelt. That guy virtually invented the executive order. There were about 400 executive orders from the founding up until TR's presidency. TR issued over 1600 of them during his tenure in office. Then when he couldn't get Congress to ratify a treaty with Panama he simply announced it to be an "executive agreement" not requiring Congressional approval.
Well that’s a start but it’s not enough. We shouldn’t expend one more nickel in this non-war. I mean no American UN involvement, no missiles, no drones, not even logistical support.
What happened to the “War Powers Act”? Is that laying out in the dumpster along with the Constitution?
Pretty much.
That only applies to Republican Presidents...
About freakin time.
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