Posted on 06/02/2011 6:39:39 PM PDT by opentalk
In the immortal words of the vice president, this could be a big $%^ing deal: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is throwing what one Republican calls “a legal and political hot potato at the President.”
In a resolution to be voted on in the House tomorrow, Boehner is giving the president two weeks –until the Pentagon Appropriations bill comes up –to either:
a) Ask for authorization for the military intervention in Libya, or
b) Figure out how to disengage the US from the NATO operation in Libya.
The resolution states: “The President has not sought, and Congress has not provided, authorization for the introduction or continued involvement of the United States Armed Forces in Libya. Congress has the constitutional prerogative to withhold funding for any unauthorized use of the United States Armed Forces, including for unauthorized activities regarding Libya.”
Boehner is explicitly and formally stating that the president did not check the box on the War Powers Act before sending the US military to intervene in Libya.
....House Republican leaders believe that if the resolution being offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio --requiring the president to withdraw U.S. Armed Forces from participation in the NATO mission in Libya within 15 days –had come up yesterday it would have passed.
Instead the Kucinich bill comes up tomorrow. With the Boehner bill an alternative.
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Boner will do anything to change the debt limit issue.
Why? Because he and the RINO’s will cave like a cheap suit.
Zero has no friends.
Why give the president 15 days? He can cut his perpetual vacation short to give us an explanation for our involvement in Libya’s civil war.
For a moment, I thought maybe Boner had FINALLY grown a pair. But evidently not. He is just doing this to avoid a vote on the Kucinich bill.
Boehner, it’s not just a question of Obama’s not bothering to explain this war to congress or the American people. It’s also a matter of whether this war is in our national interest. It is NOT.
So, please, don’t just rubber stamp Obama’s request if and when you get it. This isn’t about congressional prerogatives, which you didn’t care about anyway until the Kuchinich Bill came up. This is about the best interests of our country.
Political theatre. He’ll snivel and cave as soon as the White House and the media push back.
Why are speakers elected without looking at their lifetime Voting records? Bonehead is like 94% not good!
What bill is that concerning? Surrender to the North Koreans?
using carneys logic it would be ok for obummer to nuke libya
The country club counter sales worker that sells him golf balls likes him.
Obama will ignore him. The purpose is to dilute the Constitution; no other purpose than that.
What it says in the article: “House Republican leaders believe that if the resolution being offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio —requiring the president to withdraw U.S. Armed Forces from participation in the NATO mission in Libya within 15 days –had come up yesterday it would have passed.”
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when Kucinich picks up the ball after the Republicans dropped it. But that was is against our national interests. It is aiding the Muslim terrorists. Kucinich may have introducted his bill for the wrong reasons, but the sooner we pull out of Libya, the better.
Better late than never. The Republicans should have been a needle in Hussein’s ass over this from the beginning.
Heaven help us...
I'm sorry... so sorry... that I was such a fool...
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seems it was also a means to test the waters, to bypass congress, we the people and shift power to the UN.
Kucinich is incapable of producing a "big split".
It’s hard to be a needle in someone’s ass, when you’re not a needle and are an ass. Republican leaders? That darned close to an oxymoron IMO.
Not that I disagree with your sentiments.
It’s hard to be a needle in someone’s ass, when you’re not a needle and are an ass. Republican leaders? That’s darned close to an oxymoron IMO.
Not that I disagree with your sentiments.
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