The Congress rebukes Barack Obama’s Libya bombings

  As we all know by now the United States has been bombing Libya at the request of the United Nations. Under the War Powers Act Barack Obama did not need to–nor felt the need to–ask for the approval of the Congress to begin bombing this sovereign nation. The Nobel Peace Prize winning  Barack Obama is beholden to the United Nations and so he felt compelled to do what was asked of him, without regard to whether or not the United States had an interest in this action. I thought that the War Powers Act was put into place in the case of an emergency when there was no time to waste during a crisis when American interests were under attack, but that certainly wasn’t the case with this Libya bombing.

 Even as the bombs began falling on Libya Barack Obama denied that the United States was at war with Libya. Somehow he has the audacity (of hope) to claim that dropping bombs on a nation with the goal of removing that nation’s leader is not an act of war and he has the cojones to believe the American people will simply fall in line with this ridiculous notion.

  The War Powers Act gave Barack Obama the authority to commit to this “kinetic military action” for sixty days without the approval of the Congress, but that sixty days has passed and Barack Obama has no intention of asking the Congress for the authorization he now needs. He is claiming that our involvement in the war that is not a war is now so minimal that it doesn’t even deserve mentioning anymore.

  The Congress disagrees with the president, and today took the first actions to reign in the war mongering president with a bipartisan vote of 268-145 to rebuke his Libyan war policy and gave him two weeks to provide the Congress with the information they seek.

“He has a chance to get this right. If he doesn’t, Congress will exercise its constitutional authority and make it right,” said House Speaker John A. Boehner, the Ohio Republican who wrote the resolution that passed, 268-145, and sets a two-week deadline for the president to deliver the information the House is seeking

  The Obama regime believes that it has been providing the Congress with updates in accordance with the War Powers Act but the Congress contends–rightfully so–that they must now give approval for Barack Obama to keep the military actions in Libya going. Perhaps Barack Obama was in compliance with the War Powers Act up until the sixty day threshold was passed, but now that it has passed he needs to seek the approval of the Congress–pure and simple.

  Personally, I want to know why Barack Obama felt compelled to begin this action in the first place. He claims American values are at stake and when our values are at stake we are compelled to act as the conscience of the world (this sounds like policing the world and nation building to me and I thought the Nobel Peace Prize winner was against both of these positions) but if this is true, why are we not bombing Yemen, Syria, and the Ivory Coast where the same atrocities are taking place.

  There is much more to our involvement in Libya than we are being led to believe and Barack Obama is now bound by law to step in front of the Congress and explain why we need to continue this action. Of course we have seen what Barack Obama thinks of the law; we saw it in his ignorant statement about the Cambridge Massachusetts police, and we have seen it with his ignoring of the court order to lift the drilling moratorium, and we have seen it with the FCC ignoring a court ruling which states they do not have the authority to regulate the internet while Barack Obama is pushing the department to move forward on net-neutrality anyway, so I am not going to hold my breath waiting for Barack Obama to conform with the law on this issue.

  It will be interesting to see what happens after Barack Obama ignores this rebuke from the Congress; the resolution was non-binding, but a bipartisan message was sent to the president. What will the Congress do once Barack Obama waves his middle finger in their direction? I would think their only option would be to vote on defunding the operation in Libya. Who will blink first, Barack Obama or the Congress?