Posted on 06/17/2011 9:37:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
President Barack Obama decided he could continue the air war in Libya without congressional approval despite rulings to the contrary from Justice Department and Pentagon lawyers, according to published reports.
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We impeached Clinton, and what good did it do?
The Senate would never vote to remove Obama from office, and you can bet he’s not honorable enough to resign on his own if impeached.
Look you have a chief executive that is now in complete defiance of his own counsel and in the face of the entire 3rd branch of government. He is out of control and needs to be impeached. If it were a conservative I would be saying the same thing. This is an attack on the foundations of the republic.
He is worse than an asshole. He is the stinky turd twit
He can take it upon himself to ignore lawyers. No doubt. He should ignore them. I agree he should challenge the War Powers Act but other Presidents have ignored it as well. He should have Holder take it to court and get it thrown out, but like other Presidents he doesn’t want a fight with Congress he can avoid by just ignoring the law.
Give back your Nobel Peace Prize. You cowboy! We have laws.
A dictator of an illegal war on a sovereign country.
Where are all those peace-nik liberals?
He's proof that you are what you eat.
The president cannot, in the exercise of his oath of office, ignore it. It is the Law of the United States and his duty as president is to "faithfully execute the laws of the United States." If he believes that the law is unconstitutional he cannot unilaterally ignore it. Per his oath of office he must either obey it, or challenge it in court.
To claim that it does not apply because the United States is not engaged in "hostilities" when he is ordering our troops to drop bombs on people is to remove the legitimate basis for the actions. If our troops are not engaged in formal "hostilities" then they are engaged in acts of murder.
If Obama ignores this law, he should be impeached. His duty, if he believes it is unconstitutional is to direct the Solicitor General to file a suit before the Supreme Court and have them rule on it forthwith.
The little faggot does what he pleases, when he pleases.
Punk.
Then we should have impeached every President since Nixon.
Excellent point.
We have to wonder why Obama has taken this stand when so many other injustices are in our faces. Was it because he thought it would be easy and it would make him look great???
>>> Anyone for impeachment?
Nope. The election isn’t that far off with a fair chance of taking him down then. I’d rather let him first kill the War Powers Act. Have him and his defenders admit Nixon and Reagan were right and make it stick.
Besides, dems still control the senate. Impeachable offense or not there wouldn’t be the votes.
A bigger story might be who leaked this.
Hillary?
Black letter law means nothing to him. Look what happen to the GM Bondholders.
Forget the lawyers, do you like being lied to?
I know I don't.
Well, they did impeach Nixon and Clinton. Reagan never violated the War Powers act. Bush fully complied with it.
Does the constitution mean nothing to you either?
Is the presidential oath nothing but meaningless words?
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