[TigersEye]

That ship already sailed ... to Libya.

[BenLurkin]

[Grampa Dave]

Youtube with Biden warning President GW not to start military action against Iran without approval from Congress. If GW did, Biden promised to start impeachment proceedings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRFJ6CF2Mw&feature=player_embedded

One might ask Joe, “Why not now Joe, if your Obozoliar bombs Syria?” Oh, sorry I forgot: IOKIYAD (It’s OK If You’re A Democrat).

[Wurlitzer]

So! “At this point what does it matter?”

Can anyone honestly, and that’s the key word, honestly say this government is operating with any constitutional restrictions.

[svcw]

Congress is going to give obama the black man anything he wants.......get ready this, not going to end well.

[tflabo]

James Madison: ". . . The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature . . . the executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war." (1793.) "The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war to the Legislature." (Letter to Jefferson, c. 1798.)

Yep-- if Congress says no then Bammy is lawless.

[colorado tanker]

C'mon, Obama doesn't need Congressional authorization to attack Syria any more than Jefferson needed it to attack the Barbary Pirates.

Going to Congress is about one thing, political cover for the Messiah, who finally figured out just how unpopular his dumb "red line" policy is.

That said, there is no way he will attack Syria if he loses the vote. It would be politically disastrous for Barry and the Dim Party.

[marron]

a bad guy in Al Qaeda is always an “imminent” threat to the U.S. no matter where he is or what he’s doing.

Except that congress has at some point agreed that we were at war with Al Qaeda. They have never yet agreed that we are at war with Syria.

He ignored Congress, as well as his own lawyers, to attack Libya.

He got away with it because no one wanted to come out in favor of Khadaffi, and because there isn't a dime's worth of testicular fortitude in the entirety of the US Congress.

As commander in chief he has the responsibility to act when the danger is clear and present and there is no time to go to congress. If the action is optional, which he has agreed that it is, he is after all just planning to spank them a little, not too much to actually affect any outcome on the ground (so he says) then there is plenty of time to go to congress. Or at the very least, call in the old gray heads and get their assent.

And if, as it turns out, the chemical weapons were triggered by O's own favorite jihadists, what then? Does he plan to drop a cruise missile into their midst? Or is the spanking reserved only for Al Qaeda's enemies? And congress is seriously supposed to sign off on this? Are America's soldiers supposed to work to the benefit of the people who brought down the Twin Towers?

[ZULU]

but if not, Boehner must — must — include it in the House package.

Don’t hold your breath. He’s a surrender monkey.

[GoldenPup]

Rand Paul resolution: Obama violates Constitution if he attacks Syria without Congress’s approval

In the meantime, big "O" will talk the Syrians to death. I have never heard so much Blather and BS in my life. Oh, and screw the Russians and the camel they rode in on, too.

[cripplecreek]

Obama violates the constitution 4 or 5 times a day before lunch.