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Boehner Issues War Powers ‘Ultimatum’

by Deplorable Macker ( 22 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Republican Party, Special Report at June 14th, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Will The Speaker of The House finaly make Президент Обама go ‘BOOM!‘?

Speaker John A. Boehner warned Президент Обама on Tuesday that unless he gets authorization from Congress for his military deployment in Libya, he will be in violation of the War Powers Resolution.
In a letter sent Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Boehner, the top Republican in the constitutional chain of succession, said Mr. Обама must provide a clear justification for committing troops to Libya by Friday. Sunday marks the 90th day since the president notified Congress that U.S. troops had been committed to help enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, which is designed to protect the rebels fighting Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s government.
In a letter sent Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Boehner, the top Republican in the constitutional chain of succession, said Mr. Обама must provide a clear justification for committing troops to Libya by Friday, which marks the 90th day since the president committed U.S. troops, and the clock started ticking under the War Powers Resolution.
“The Constitution requires the president to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’ and one of those laws is the War Powers Resolution, which requires an approving action by Congress or withdrawal within 90 days from the notification of a military operation,” Mr. Boehner said in the letter.

“Or else what?” is going to be Президент Обама’s response. Then the game will be afoot. It doesn’t matter whether or not this law is good law…only that it is the Law of the Land, and if Обама refuses to comply…will Boehner (and for that matter, the rest of the Congress) have the intestinal fortitude to refrain from crying and begin Impeachment proceedings?
Or will Президент Обама once again display his utter contempt for the Constitution, for all the world to see?

Congressional Eunuchs

by Deplorable Macker ( 74 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Libya, Republican Party at May 24th, 2011 - 8:30 am

I’m beginning to wonder whether the War Powers Resolution was the actual target of the Rapture which was supposed to have taken place on May 21. Not only has الرئيس أوباما ignored the requirement to seek Congressional approval for continued military authorization past the 60-day deadline, Congress doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to truly call him on his deliberate inaction.
Never mind what Dennis Kucinich (Tinfoil Hat-OH10) has to say about the matter:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he doesn’t know if the president violated the War Powers Act, and finds the administration’s actions “a bit confusing now.”
“The administration is going to have to decide whether it thinks it was triggered and we’ll have to respond to that,” McConnell told “Fox News Sunday.” Senator (John) McCain has been to Benghazi as I think everyone knows. He is keeping us posted on what he thinks ought to be done.”

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! If Senator McConnell can’t figure out whether the War Powers Resolution (which, by the way, IS the Law of the Land whether we like it or not) has been triggered…what does that say about the rest of the GOP leadership in Congress?