Posted on 08/25/2014 1:46:45 PM PDT by sunmars
The White House said Monday that President Obama won’t necessarily seek congressional approval if he decides to order airstrikes in Syria against militants of the Islamic State.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Mr. Obama, who is meeting with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Monday afternoon, “has not made a decision to pursue any military action in Syria.”
But he said the president doesn’t see the need to seek congressional approval as he did a year ago, when he was considering an attack on the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for its use of chemical weapons.
“That was a different situation,” Mr. Earnest said. “These are complicated situations and they always will be.”
Syria’s foreign minister said Monday that his country welcomed air strikes by the U.S. in Syria targeting the Islamic State’s terrorist bases, but warned that Damascus should be warned first. Mr. Earnest didn’t comment on that possibility.
A top White House aide said last week that Mr. Obama would take action against the Islamic State “regardless of borders.”
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Why bother having congress if this muppet is just going to ignore the constitutional procedure.
Now that's some situational awareness right there.
He needs to go before Congress and make his case. Even if it’s just with Congressional leaders, he has that obligation. This isn’t a situation where he can’t consult. For heaven’s sake he’s been playing with himself up at Martha’s Vineyard. What’s the hurry now?
The funny thing is, this is one item on which he COULD get Congressional approval. Unfortunately, it would be bipartisan, and make his fondest, farthest left friends, unhappy.
Congress will cower. They want the power for their man when they are in power.
Obama created IS and will protect them
like the Cole bombers, like Hasan,
like the Moslem Brotherhood,
like the “rebels”,
like the Guantanamo released-Generals.
The EXEMPT Congress might get in the way.
Hey Congress, this clueless potus may go it alone and bomb a Russian client state
(crickets)
Please. He’s trying to prompt Congress into doing something, anything.
Remember, he leads from behind, from behind any cover whatsoever so that if it is unpopular, fails, or otherwise creates dissention in his base and toward him personally, he has cover.
I know many of the congressmen are more adept than this fop. They need to corner him.
Obama’s like a Child
Another piece in the TinPot dictator puzzle that is BHO. He gets to start his own little wars.
Note that the Founding States had made the Constitution’s Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I to clarify that the House of Representatives uniquely had the power of the purse to stop corrupt alleged presidents like Obama from acting unilaterally from the people’s federal representatives.
However, Obama’s first Democratic-controlled Congress foolishly totally defeated the purpose of the purse clause when it passed the constitutionally indefensible Stimulus Program bill, essentially giving Obama a blank check to do as he pleases, Congress be damned.
The Democrats in Washington are so confused by his foreign policy that they've probably asked him to just leave them out of it.
And you can be sure that if things turned out badly for Obama, he'd blame it on Congress for making him do it.
No, I don't think they trust him.
Going it alone means barely going at all.
-PJ
Russia said to stay out of Syria and that it would be settled eventually diplomatically. But no....we armed the rebels....the same ones that were killing all the Christians.
Congress has already said no.
Obama is trying to get even with Russia for getting Syria to get rid of the WMD. Even to the point of taking credit.
Congress needs to scream......
The House should pass a resolution telling Obama he has to get a formal declaration of war or all the Constitutionalists should shut the hell up.
Just get out of the way and let Assad finish the job.
Probably the best idea. There’s nobody better for exterminating mass murdering Mudslimes than a mass murdering Mudslime dictator helped by the Russians. May there be the highest possible casualties on each side.
Bringing it to congress will just highlight the fact that we are switching sides again. No one wants to make a speech about how they were wromg before. No one will call him on it.
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