{"id":4999,"date":"2011-06-03T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-06-03T01:21:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T08:21:24","slug":"republicans-duck-libya-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/republicans-duck-libya-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Duck Libya Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the US initially started providing military support for Libyan rebels, I supported his right to do so under the War Powers Act of 1973.  However, the time allotted to continue military operations have since expired, and Obama has failed in his obligation.  I have no doubt that he believes he is doing what\u2019s right.  However, he does not have the right to disobey the law.  No President does.    Dennis Kucinich was right to introduce the Libya Resolution.  As much as Republicans have complained about Obama taking action without congressional approval, they were afraid Kucinich\u2019s resolution might pass, so they blocked it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"PhotoOpen Congress catches<\/font><\/font> a Fox Nutwork report that should raise some eyebrows:<\/font><\/p>\n

The House was scheduled to vote this afternoon on a privileged resolution<\/a><\/font> from Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10]<\/a><\/font> directing the President, pursuant to the War Powers Act, to remove U.S. armed forces from Libya. But the House leadership has pulled it from the floor because, according to Republican aides who spoke with Fox News [Murdock delinked], \u201cit became clear that it might succeed.\u201d<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201c[Republican leaders] hadn\u2019t seen much of a threat from [the Kucinich bill]. He\u2019s kind of this marginal figure and having his resolution go down narrowly would be no big deal and might even send a message to the administration,\u201d said one of the Republican aides. \u201cBut once they saw that there was substantial support, they were like, \u2018Whoa.\u2019\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

This has been a long-running problem with the War Powers Resolution. Congress has long been afraid to test its constitutional validity, lest they find out they don’t have the powers they thought they did. Likewise, presidential administrations have feared finding out they don’t have the powers they thought they<\/em><\/span> did. And so the War Powers Resolution has lived in this uncertain gray zone ever since, "surviving" perhaps only because everyone was worried what they’d find if they poked it to see if it was really still alive (or ever was)\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>>l<\/p>\n

Leaving the War Powers Act on the books without enforcing it is not acceptable.  To continue operations in Libya, Obama must obtain authorization from Congress.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the US initially started providing military support for Libyan rebels, I supported his right to do so under the War Powers Act of 1973.  However, the time allotted to continue military operations have since expired, and Obama has failed in his obligation.  I have no doubt that he believes he is doing what\u2019s right.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}