[wideawake]

Then you have COMPLETELY missed the point, and have been living on another Planet for the last decade.

Allow me to explain again, and more simply, what's going on here.

If it is hypocritical for the Democrat caucus as a whole to ignore the War Powers Act, it is hypocritical for conservatives - who have recognized the Act as a dangerous example of unconstitutional Congressional overreach - to invoke it.

The War Powers Act is poisonous and if fake conservatives like Paul and real enemies like Kucinich hoodwink conservatives into backing it and invoking it, we are on our way down the rabbit hole.

[rollo tomasi]

"The Executive has no right in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war; that the right of convening and informing Congress, whenever such a question seems to call for a decision, is all the right which the Constitution has deemed requisite or proper."-- James Madison, some dude who obviously does not understand the Constitution, but think he does.

"The whole powers of war being, by the constitution of the United States, vested in Congress, the acts of that body can alone be restored to as our guides in this inquiry." Talbot vs. Seeman 1801

What NATO Country did Lybia's army invade by the way?

Thomas Jefferson, another figure who did not understand the Constitution weighed in on Executive Power's ability to make war by stating:

“As the executive cannot decide the question of war on the affirmative side, neither ought it to do so on the negative side, by preventing the competent body from deliberating on the question.”

Remember Jefferson's mindset concerning his Presidency and Tripoli? Every decision to cross the line and engage offensive maneuvers came from Congress. Why? Because Jefferson understood that ONLY Congress authorized the use of force when attacking a foreign entity.