Boehner gives Obama Friday deadline on Libya
Stepping up a simmering constitutional conflict, House Speaker John A. Boehner warned President Obama 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. Obama must provide a clear justification by Friday for committing troops to Libya.
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.
“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.
What the heck, he never liked the Constitution in the first place:
“I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it is a document that reflects some deep flaws.”
– Barack Obama on the United States Constitution, (Sept. 2001).
The Chrysler deal, Obamacare, the EPA, choosing which laws he feels like enforcing and which, like DOMA, he doesn’t feel like enforcing, shadow government, mysterious czars all are testimony for Obama’s contempt for the Constitution of the United States. If lawmakers keep bending over and letting Obama stick it in their backsides it won’t be long before we will have a dictator instead of a President. Congress’ approval or disapproval of an action cannot be the reason to disregard the law of the land.
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