Posted on 05/23/2011 3:14:03 AM PDT by markomalley
President Obama launched a U.S. war in Libya two months ago with no congressional approval. Under the Constitution and under the War Powers Act, which allows the president to wage defensive wars for up to 60 days without prior approval, Obama probably broke the law.
Now that 60 days have passed since the United States joined the hostilities, Obama's war is more clearly illegal. But nobody should expect this to matter to a president with a long record of disregarding legal and constitutional limits on presidential and federal power.
Presidential arrogation of power is nothing new. President George W. Bush's lawyer John Yoo declared in a post-9/11 memo that no congressional "statute .... can place any limits on the president's determinations" about how to fight terrorism, proclaiming such decisions "are for the president alone to make."
But Barack Obama ran against this imperial mind-set. On war powers, he said, "The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
More broadly, he declared, "No more ignoring the law when it's inconvenient. That is not who we are. . . . . We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers."
Now that he's president, Obama apparently believes the inverse: Stubborn rulers should not be subject to the whims of the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
When he is defeated will he leave?
In a pine box?
...what has me pi$$ed is so does the GOP!
If you ask how much a Rolls-Royce costs...you can't afford it.
In the meantime, DU, which has been obsessing over the “lawless” Bush being held accountable as a war criminal, is experiencing Crickets over THEIR president actually conducting a lawless war with less international backing than Bush ever had.
Over oil. Can anyone say HYPOCRITES?
I’m beginning to think that the only members of the GOP are the girls, i.e. Palin/Bachman.
The republicans do not have the balls to call him on it
“But nobody should expect this to matter to a president with a long record of disregarding legal and constitutional limits on presidential and federal power.”
How about it should MATTER to our congress? How about these elected officials, who have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, get off of their collective a$$’s, and start doing their jobs? What a disgusting bunch of people.
In this case I believe balls have nothing to do with it. The GOP is complicit in the ultimate goals of the Left due the GOP is under RINO leadership IMO.
I believe the GOP is flight 93, and we are saying “Let’s Roll”. Hopefully we can take back control without crashing in the field.
They are liberals.....their words mean nothing.
Look at the hypocrisy of Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Kerry, Gore and Obama on just about every issue.....and that is just their POTUS nominees!
I’m hearing now that the White Hut is sending out “investigators” (dirt diggers)to check on Christie....talk about paranoid.
Only this President.
The GOP are on their KNEES before Obama,
and call him, “King”.
The Tyrant is not documented, but they are cowards.
Someone once said:
“The law is like a spider web. It catches ants and flies, but wasps and bees get through easily.”
East Asia has always been at war with Oceania.
Our Great Leader has personally slain our enemies.
Hey! It’s all A-OK with Graham and McCain, so it must be right, right? Besides, Graham “deemed” that Kadafi is not the leader of Libya, so we need to do something, right? The act of bombing the crap out of everything and defining it as “humanitarian” is pretty cool, though. It makes Barry look tough, except this “leading from behind” thing is pretty gay (not in the homosexual way).
Did gorbachev leave?
LLS
0bama fancies himself a dictator, plain and simple.
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