Friday - June 24, 2011

Spineless GOP thinks they’re the UN

House Rebukes Obama on Libya, Stops Short of Funding Cutoff

The House on Friday delivered its strongest rebuke yet to President Obama over his handling of the U.S. military intervention in Libya, refusing to endorse the U.S. operation three months after it began. But the House stopped short of stripping funding for the mission.

In the last of two votes Friday afternoon, the House rejected a Republican-authored bill to strike funding for the Libya operation. The House voted 238-180 against it, with 89 Republicans opposing.

The vote ensured that, at least for the moment, the Obama administration has the money to sustain its involvement in the NATO-led campaign—though the funding bill was unlikely to pass in the Senate anyway.

However, the vote came after the House, in a 295-123 decision, rejected a resolution to “authorize” the mission in Libya—even a limited operation with no ground troops. One-hundred-and-fifteen Democrats and only eight Republicans voted for the proposal; in a blow to Obama, 70 Democrats voted against it. Though that resolution is non-binding, it represents the most definitive statement the chamber has made about the conflict.

If they can’t stand up to the tyrant for crap like this, they won’t be able to stand up to him for anything.

Vote them all out.

Michelle Bachmann was one of the NO votes. Thanks.

The funding measure would have barred drone attacks and airstrikes but allowed the United States to continue actions in support of NATO.

So it was a half-assed pussy bullshit bill to begin with. If they had even one pair of working nalgas amongst them, the bill would have been to cut ALL funding and cease ALL activity immediately.

So I guess the War Powers Act is dead. The Legislature does not have the balls to halt combat operations for even a single day to force a meeting to discuss the Libya thing.  All by himself the President can send troops into harm’s way and spend hundreds of millions on blowing things up, and do so WHENEVER and FOREVER, without so much as a nod of approval from the legislature, much less a debate and a vote (forget about asking the people what they want), or anything so archaic as an actual Declaration of War. They are his toothless useless running dogs and he holds the leash.

You know what that means don’t you? It means our President is now actually a dictator.

All hail Obamacles, the Mighty, the Won!!!

Posted by Drew458     on 06/24/2011 at 03:28 PM   
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