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Obama to lawmakers: I don't need your approval to attack Islamic State
Washington Examiner ^ | 9/9/2014 | Brian Hughes

Posted on 09/10/2014 8:54:30 AM PDT by mojito

President Obama told congressional leaders in a meeting Tuesday that he has the authority to launch broader attacks against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, downplaying the prospect of a Capitol Hill vote on his military plan ahead of his prime-time address to the nation Wednesday night.

Obama “told the leaders that he has the authority he needs to take action against [the Islamic State] in accordance with the mission he will lay out in his address tomorrow,” the White House said in a readout of the meeting that included Obama, Vice President Joe Biden; House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

“The president told the leaders that he would welcome action by the Congress that would aid the overall effort and demonstrate to the world that the United States is united in defeating the threat from" the Islamic State, the White House added.

Some lawmakers have called on the president to seek congressional authorization for airstrikes in Iraq and potentially Syria, but the White House says the president is under no obligation to do so.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; again; congress; isis; kingbarry; obama; warpowers
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Barry don't need no steeekin' badges...
1 posted on 09/10/2014 8:54:31 AM PDT by mojito
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Not a healthy mind.


2 posted on 09/10/2014 8:56:08 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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He’s trying to provoke the Republicans into opposing him. He really wants to do nothing. If he can get Republican opposition he’ll do nothing and blame Republicans.


3 posted on 09/10/2014 8:58:31 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: mojito

Nobel Peace Prize winners don’t need anyone’s permission to kill.


4 posted on 09/10/2014 8:58:41 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: EagleUSA

Clown Prince nobama don’t need no steeeeenkin’ laws.


5 posted on 09/10/2014 8:59:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mojito

Nice shift he has going on there.

He went from doing everything he could to avoid dealing with ISIS to saying no one can stop him from dealing with them.


6 posted on 09/10/2014 9:00:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: Sooth2222

Yep. “I have a Nobel Peace Prize, I can kill anyone I want to!” When Dr. Strangelove no longer looks like fiction, be afraid, be very afraid.


7 posted on 09/10/2014 9:00:57 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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He really wants to do nothing. If he can get Republican opposition he’ll do nothing and blame Republicans.

I think you may be right. This kind of triangulation would make a Clinton proud.

8 posted on 09/10/2014 9:01:29 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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He’s trying to provoke the Republicans into opposing him. He really wants to do nothing.

Bingo. He's going to demand a blank check which the republicans will be right to oppose without specifics.
9 posted on 09/10/2014 9:04:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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I don't need your approval to attack Islamic State arm ISIS.
10 posted on 09/10/2014 9:06:50 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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King Barry makes laws, ignores laws, breaks laws, decides what is legal or unlawful every day.

He doesn't need those pesky other branches.

So why not disband the senate, congress and the federal judiciary and save a trillion dollars a year?


11 posted on 09/10/2014 9:08:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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Tough talk from a muslim that will not attack IS. He is misdirecting so everyone will later claim, “Yeah, dat’s right, he be attackin dem muzzies!”


13 posted on 09/10/2014 9:11:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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67 votes are the only deterrent to this narcissistic dictator.


15 posted on 09/10/2014 9:13:20 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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If he doesn't need Congress, then what's taken him so long to respond?

He's been rope-a-doped to the point that the longer he fails to respond, or only responds with half measures, he remains entirely responsible for the (failed) outcome as well as wholly responsible for each additional death.

FReegards!

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16 posted on 09/10/2014 9:14:19 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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Lemmee at em. Lemmee at em.


18 posted on 09/10/2014 9:29:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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“Some liberal heads must be exploding as Obama ramps up to war....”

I’m sure Cindy Sheehan will camp in the yard of his chicago house.


20 posted on 09/10/2014 9:35:53 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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