Posted on 03/26/2011 12:13:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Freshman Republican: Obama’s timing on Libya ‘intentional’
By Russell Berman - 03/25/11 04:22 PM ET
The head of the House Republican freshman class is accusing President Obama of intentionally waiting until Congress adjourned to deploy U.S. military forces to Libya without its consent.
“Why did he wait until the day after we adjourned Congress [to launch military strikes]?” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), the president of the 87-member GOP freshman class, said in a phone interview on Friday. “I believe that timing was intentional by the president.”
Congress adjourned for a scheduled recess on March 17, hours before the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution authorizing broad military action to enforce a cease-fire in Libya. Obama briefed congressional leaders the next day at the White House and ordered the first air strikes against forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on March 19.
Scott, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, noted that Obama had called for Gadhafi to leave power in early March and questioned why he waited more than two weeks to act militarily. The Obama administration has said it acted only as part of an international coalition that responded to emergency conditions after Gadhafi said he would show “no mercy” to citizens opposing his government.
Scott said that while he understood the administration’s argument, “I still maintain his timing was intentional.” He said it was “a serious problem” that Obama waited for authorization from the U.N. but not the Congress.
Lawmakers from both parties have criticized Obama for not consulting Congress, but Scott’s public contention that the president purposefully waited until lawmakers left town appears to be unique.
“The president unilaterally injected us into a third country’s conflict,” Scott said.
He said Congress should have given authorization to use military force, but he added that he would wait to hear briefings from military leaders before deciding whether he would support an immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces, as some critics of the intervention have advocated.
Wouldn’t be the first time Obama acted unethically and it won’t be the last. Liberals are capable of anything.
This could be filed under, “Duh” ... eh?
And then fled to Rio.
Let’s not forget: Hussein was a freshman senator not long ago. I do not recall The Hill implying a freshman senator was not ready for the office.
Wouldn’t be the first time Obama acted unethically and it won’t be the last. Liberals ( DEMOCRATS ) are capable of anything.
All the time he had to talk to Congress while the UN had the hearing on its schedule? And waiting on the UN to authorize it, he waited until being both out of the country and while Congress was on recess to order it? I’d tend to agree with the freshman Congressman on this.
Impeach him now. What are we doing, just sitting around complaining and commiserating about each new transgression: ‘can you believe it?’, ‘can you believe what he did now?’, ‘the outrage!’. Let’s be rid of this impostor and his combination of incompetence and malevolence as soon as possible. Even some on the left are calling for it. Let Biden run in 2012.
Plan? There is NOTHING coincidental about Obama, absolutely nothing.
Needs repeating early and often.
“Let’s be rid of this impostor and his combination of incompetence and malevolence as soon as possible.”
Yes, that is one option, or... we can bitch and moan as time slips away, while we continue to watch Obama take us to a place from which we can no longer rebuild and all of our treasure and credit is gone.
Yes, we should IMPEACH the white hating, America hating, country destroying traitor, black muslim, corrupt lying thief, incompetent and mentally ill arrogant bastard.
Perhaps it’s obvious that I don’t like him very much. LOL
Impeach the little sh*t.
Obama did not need Congress’ “advice”; he needed their PERMISSION.
This is now an illegal war.
Do we want more GUNS or BUTTER? This is an economic war. Its a War for JOBS, TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS, and to Get re-elected as he wants to get people back to work with new jobs in the defense industry when all HELL breaks loose.
AXELROD AND OBUMMER have this scripted out to not only destroy the economy when WORLD WAR III erupts but he also knows that he can do anything he wants as he only answers to GEORGE SORO’S.
Launch an immediate investigation into every aspect of this Regime to expose the enemies within.
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