Out of extremely thin air, the Obama administration is now conjuring the narrative that Congress actually did approve a Libyan no-fly zone before President Barack Obama signed onto the project with the United Nations. Speaking last Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned (though she wasn’t quite sure of the date): “The United States Senate called for a no-fly zone in the resolution that it passed, um, I think on March the first.”
ABC News, under the headline “Fact Check: Senate Did Favor No-Fly Zone,” is now reporting:
Some lawmakers are grousing loudly that President Barack Obama sent the nation’s military to Libya without Congress’ blessing. They’re ignoring a key fact: The Senate a month ago voted to support imposing a no-fly zone to protect civilians from attacks by Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.
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With no objections, the Senate on March 1 backed a resolution strongly condemning “the gross and systematic violations of human rights in Libya” and urging the U.N. Security Council to take action, “including the possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Libyan territory.”
ABC goes on to quote Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s testimony yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in which Gates said: “In its own way, the Congress consulted with the president and particularly with this body that unanimously in a resolution called for the imposition of a no-fly zone.”
Lower in the article, ABC then touches on the many and large qualifiers. For an articulate account of what those are, you’ll do better to skip the ABC backing and filling, and go straight to Andy McCarthy’s post on NRO’s Corner: “How the most transparent administration in history gets a transparent congressional debate on the war in Libya.” As Andy notes, this resolution — Senate Resolution 85 — was nonbinding. It has no force of law. Nor is the Senate the same as the full Congress. And, as Andy notes in another post, this nonbinding resolution was “hotlined” through the Senate with no debate and no vote, receiving “the same amount of consideration as a bill to rename a post office.” It neither authorizes nor endorses American use of force.
Among my own sources, a congressional aide says the resolution was passed late in the day, with few members around, and the no-fly zone slipped quietly into the final version.
To this I’ll add my own observation. When this resolution passed, on March 1, the Obama administration to all appearances couldn’t have cared less. Obama did not at that point issue a clarion public call for a no-fly zone, or rush to the Security Council brandishing Resolution 85 and demanding action. Nor did the administration turn to Congress for anything of genuine heft. For almost two more weeks — during which Muammar Gaddafi’s forces were regaining the advantage and slaughtering Libyans — President Obama waited and dithered. On March 11, he held a press conference in which he talked about organizing “conversations” with NATO and consulting with the “international community” on Libya. He made not a single reference to the March 1 Senate resolution. He made precisely three mentions of the Senate. None of these had anything to do with Libya; they were strictly about the U.S. budget.
Elevating Jihad apologists to cabinet level, bowing to the Saudi tyrant, apologizing to Islam for the arrogance of America, defining NASA’s top priority as “making Muslims feel good about their historic contributions to science”, betraying, and possibly instigating the revolution against one of our only stalwart allies in the Arab world in Egypt, and now doing the bidding of the scabrous Arab league, putting American prestige on the line, helping al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to power, and risking Ametican blood and treasure in a Libyan civil war…
How much lower can this vile disgusting charlatan go? Something tells me we’re about to find out…
A study of their Muslim strategy used successfully for the past 1389 years should be an indicator to all carriers of rampant demopsychosis on the hill that all they can expect from their fabulous unqualified leader is more evidence to insure impeachment —-both his and theirs.
He can escape to international position while they linger in denial of the truth scratching their balding heads while wondering how they ever arrived at a kneeling position exposing their nape to the sword of Islam already posed for the work “cut out” for it by arrival of the twelfth Imam. When execution of seven UN staff members, with seventy three wounded and nine martyred in Kandahar is justified by the discussion of burning a Koran, Islam’s highly edited holy book, at an evangelical church in Florida, where will they hide? Passage among surviving patriots may become to risky to leave the basement green room.
Brokebarak Obama must be impeached for only then will he be able to quit Libya.
Aesop’s Fables: The Wolf and the Lamb—- When the Senate refused to arm neutral merchant ships in 1917, the Administration found a 1798 congressional authorization for them to do so. I am sure that since 1789 there exists a resolution which can be used to justify military action against any country at any time.
Of course the conundrum of the Libya Crisis is that while failure of the Franco/Anglo/American/UN effort may be embarrassing to their respective political leaders, failure, to the Tripoli regime, means total annihilation. When one side fights for “humanitarian” reasons, and the other fights for “survival’, which do you think has the greater will to win?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/defense-secretary-libya-did-not-pose-threat-to-us-was-not-vital-national-interest-to-intervene.html For an enlightening glance at three monkey Mideast policy promulgation, watch Jake Tapper as guide whilst Sec. Clinton and Sec. Gates tiptoe through the legal and diplomatic verbal minefields as they attempt to stuff the recess military intervention in Libya through the eye of the Constitutional needle.
The lies and distortions just keep vomiting out of the mouths of Obama and his flunkies.
This should cause anyone who’s thought Obama to be a masterly politician to take fresh stock of that notion. It’s the clumsiest imaginable deceit hanging from the barest frayed fiber of fact.
All America’s wars prior to the Korean War were declared by the House of Representatives and the Senate in joint conference. Congressional resolutions authorizing the use of military force abroad have since been treated as functionally equivalent to declarations of war. But only in the cases of Korea, in which Truman acted without Congressional sanction, and Grenada, in which case Reagan acted to protect the lives of American students trapped on the island, has the president sent American forces to war outside the United States without first informing Congress that it would do so and securing the requisite approval.
Perhaps Obama wants to argue that, since Truman acted on a UN Security Council resolution without Congressional confirmation, he can do so as well. But that’s logically equivalent to claiming that a lawbreaker who evades punishment for his crime has nullified the law and indemnified anyone else who might break it.
If the War Powers clause of the Constitution is still in force, Obama has violated his oath of office. If it isn’t, I want to see the relevant amendment — now.
We are seeing the real war now. Forget Libya. It’s a third-rate country with a wacko leader. The real war is between the Prince of Fools (B. Hussein Obama) and the US Constitution. Thus far, the Constitution appears to be losing.
At least Truman, in the case of Korea, could say that American forces had been attacked (what few of them still remained at that time on the penensula) – no one has tried to claim, and the world is unaware of, that any American Forces were in Libya, or had been attacked.
Once more it has been shown that if the Left can’t lie about something, they have nothing to add to a discussion.
A fig leaf to hide their nakedness.
It is interesting that now they feel the need to try to find some cover. If they actually were dressed, they would not be seeking fig leaves.
Their own actions indict them.
Claudia, It is sooo tiring when forced to deal with someone who is a continual liar like O Blah-blah and his administration are. They understand that using the Big Lie or half truths constantly, particularly with a sycophant Media is a strategy that will work because there are so few journalists like yourself that will track it down, and then only a few awake people out there, like your readers, that will read about it.
I had a partner who would lie even when the truth was better! I got rid of him …at great cost to my pocketbook and my reputation. Obama and his ship of fools will be even more costly and damaging to us before it is over.
Claudia, keep the articles coming. I enjoy your work greatly and never miss an article with your byline.
Obama is a muslim, otherwise his past actions are senseless.
Keep in mind that muslims can lie and deceive non muslims to advance their wonderfully corupt religion.
President Obama is not a muslim. He was born one but was baptized by the Reverend Jeremiah “Racy” Wright well into his 20s.
President Obama then became an apostate in the eyes of Islam and entered the “Rushdie Zone”.
However I think he was granted a special dispensation by Al-Ahzar University when he was in Cairo in recognition of having been ‘taqiyya’ enough to lay a reconciliation speech on them written by a Jewish guy.
It was ‘very well done’ and handshakes all around that day.
Keep in mind the deceiption part.
A little correction: Obama never was even close to the “Rushdie Zone”, since he is patently unable to comment in an intellectually incisive way on the demoniacal cult known as Islam, let alone to tell the truth on any subject. Also his security detail is of a size precluding entry in the zone of deadly fatwas.
A person’s religion is not determined by documents or birth, it is determined by how the person acts. Normally it is also indicated by what he says, but in Obama’s case he lies about everything so that isn’t accurate. Obama’s actions and even some things he says indicate he is as true a Muslim as you’ll run across anywhere.
I disagree: I think that President Obama simply thinks muslims are cool and with cool names just like the Black Panthers did. The proof is that the Prez doesn’t know squat about the history of Islam – he just knows they had nothing to do with the history of America and that clean hands status is a semi-clincher right there and so they get bows and kisses rather than American region DVDs.
One must remember that Obama comes from an Afro-centrist culture within Trinity Church that thinks the Library of Alexandria was full of black scholars plagiarized by Europe simply because false narratives are ever so much more fun than history and because they cannot grasp timelines or the fact that the Sahara Desert exists – Africa is Africa and so it’s Zulu head to toe.
Read up on Afro-centrist versions of the history of Egypt and you’ll find more laughs than a Mack Sennett two reeler and just as contemporary in its scholarship. History within the context of Afro-centrism is ‘Nessie’ and the Roswell Incident combined with W.E.B Dubois famous treatise, “There Are Excuses For Everything”.
James, you have a gift for words. “More laughs than a Mack Sennett two-reeler” made me chuckle. But you make very good points with your humor.
You are incorrect. First of all, the punishment for apostasy is death under Sharia law. If Islamic middle east views Obama as an apostate then why did Ayatullah Durrani, an incumbent Government’s Minister in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, publicly call upon him to become the new global caliphate? Durrani urged US President Barrack Obama to offer Eid prayers at Ground Zero Mosque and become “Ameer-ul-Momineen” of Muslim Ummah. These people believe that the time of the 12th Imam has come – the real reason you see unrest in the middle east. The idea that this is democratic unrest is laughable and only demonstrates a total lack of knowledge of Islam.
To quote an article from The Nation which was printed on 9/2/2010: “Durrani argued that Muslim World was in “dire need” of a Caliph and the distinguished slot of Caliphate would earn President Obama the exemplary titles of what he termed, “Mullah Barrack Hussain Obama” or “Allama Obama.” “The time is approaching fast. Barrack Hussain Obama must act now. This is a golden opportunity, Muslims badly need it,” he added, saying that the elevation of President Obama to Muslim’s Caliphate would be the “key to success.”
You can link to the article here: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Islamabad/02-Sep-2010/Minister-wants-Obama-to-become-AmeerulMomineen
This is a gross violation of Our Constitution and I call for ALL Congress to WAKE UP! Are you kidding me? Are you going to allow and condone, as shown by your inaction, the unlawful WAR on Libya? When is Our Congress going to find its’ backbone and start to govern as WE THE PEOPLE have allowed them? WAKE UP AMERICA. I HEAR VERY LITTLE NOISE ABOUT THIS ISSUE. OUR inaction is acceptance as well. Where is the VOICE OF THE PEOPLE? Will PJTV et al step up to the plate? I hope and pray they will.
SECURE THE BORDER. ENFORCE THE LAW. NO AMNESTY. NO SHARIAH.
It’s the ol’ razzle dazzle… This administration is adept at telling us exactly what they want us to hear, reality be damned. Kinetic revisionism.
Only those who really listen can hear.
“If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with BS” so the saying goes. Yet, I am not dazzled nor am I baffled. They have failed.
it’s only me, or does anybody else see a Senate failure here?
“… a congressional aide says the resolution was passed late in the day, with few members around, and the no-fly zone slipped quietly into the final version.”
That’s a third-world way to do the dirty politics in the Senate, sure, yet the Senate has a moral obligation to stay in during the debates and keep always vigilant, that’s all the point of “check and balances”.
The rest of this mess, UN and arab league included, is irrelevant if the Senate made such a foolish error.
The Senate under Harry Reid’s wise guidance made no error whatever.
Resolution 85 was designed as a fig leaf, and was deliberately snuck unvoted into the record, in case Hillary needed that fig leaf to cover her moral nudity. Sure enough, she tried to use it, but surprise! It was way to small to cover even her smallest flaws.
And besides, Harry has his priorities. He had to deliver a speech on how the Tea Party was of no consequence and that its membership is dwindling. Now THAT’s important.
Obama see Congress and another one of those “distractions” that keeps him from implementing his kingly decrees. After all, he has all of those “Czars,” which are so aptly named, and he has given all of those Executive Orders by-passing Congress, and now he can even go to war without having to bother with Congress. Soon he will simply call Congress irrelevant and start deciding which laws are valid and which are not. Congress is foolish to abdicate what little power it has left to this “man.” Just another reason to work hard to make sure he’s replaced in 2012.
If you allow yourself to be treated as a peon it isn’t the fault of your new master. The fault lies with your lack of courage to stike them for their insult to your liberty.
Congress and the citizenry are irrelavent unless they demand their respect due them as codified in the US Constitution. I don’t even hear a whimper. Just the bleeting of sheep.
We are a herd of timid, industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. And the government, being the good herdsman, takes from us our wool, and culls some of us for slaughter for our meat, as we joyfully cry ba-ba-ba.
Presidential deception in taking this country to war it doesn’t want has a long history. Wilson said he wouldn’t get us into WWI but did. Roosevelt told America’s mothers he wouldn’t send their sons to war but did after boxing Japan into a corner that made armed conflict inevitable. LBJ got us into Vietnam after a phantom attack on an American warship in the Tonkin Gulf. Make up your own mind about Saddam and the WMDs. And so it goes. Meet the new boss. Same as the old one.
Banjo: “LBJ got us into Vietnam after a phantom attack on an American warship in the Tonkin Gulf.”
This is an old debate but Kennedy got us into Nam long before that. I understand you may have been fooled by Kennedy royalists[pun intended].
Actually, Japan boxed themselves into that corner. Their grand plan for a Pacific and Asian Empire was Tojo’s, and his War Party’s, doing. And it was planned and wargamed a decade before FDR first took the oath of office as President, to boot. (Whether you believe the Tanaka Memorial is a Chinese forgery or not.)
Like Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy, Tojo and the War Party in Japan were bound and determined to gain an empire by the proverbial any means necessary, going back to their seizure of power in 1924. Blaming FDR for their stupidity is about as logical as blaming Haile Selassie in Ethiopia for Mussolini’s.
Franklin D. Roosevelt made a number of historic blunders as POTUS (as his SecTreas, Henry Morgenthau, openly admitted- in the summer of 1939), but the Pacific War wasn’t one of them. That was entirely a case of the shoguns letting their egos write a check their Navy and Army couldn’t cash.
clear ether
eon
Clear, concise and accurate. Well said eon.
Sorry, eon, but this is one of those rare times I disagree with you.
Yes, Japan definitely had a part in it. There was a flaw in their Constitution that gave the power to the military whenever there was an active war. The Kodo-ha (Japan’s Nazis) took advantage of that flaw. A colonel of a regiment would order his troops across the border and start a war, which would then go without reproof, because the military would then be in charge, and about a third of them were Kodo-ha.
However, when they invaded Indochina after the fall of France, Roosevelt just could not make himself stay out of it, despite promises to the public. In October, he instituted an oil embargo amongst Japan’s suppliers. The oil stays off until you leave Indochina.
Now, he either didn’t know that that would mean a tremendous loss of face to the Japanese (intolerable), or he did know, and he was boxing them in. Which was it? Was it ignorance or malice? Was he a knave or a fool? The result was the same and inevitable. The Japs had only 3 months reserves. They had to strike to take the oil by the end of December, or surrender.
Despite the proven capability of an air attack on Pearl Harbor (demonstrated by us in 1937), Roosevelt took no steps to prepare us, resulting in the “surprise attack” on Pearl Harbor. Again, either he didn’t know (ignorance), or he did know (malice). The result was the same, and it got us into WWII.
I’m not saying that was not a good war to fight. The Fascists needed to be put down like dogs. I am only saying that Roosevelt definitely DID get us into that war. What did we care whether or not the Japs took Indochina from France?
Presidents find ways to force us into war. They have to, because Congress will rarely take a stand. They are poltroons who need political cover always. The wars are rarely justifiable.
And yes, Johnson did get us into Vietnam. Sure we had “advisors” in Vietnam, but it was Johnson’s decision to either pull out or go the whole hog. At that point, we had lost 201 men in Vietnam. He wanted to get re-elected. He did not want to be portrayed as soft on defense and soft on Communism. So, he committed us to a war he KNEW would end badly. KNEW it, mind you. We proceeded to lose 57,292 more men in a losing, pointless, unjust war, so that he could bring us his “Great Society” and Medicare.
Medicare was bought with the blood of our troops. Johnson was scum.
Wilson brought us WWI. Roosevelt brought us WWII. Truman brought us Korea. Kennedy brought us the Bay of Pigs and the start of Vietnam. Johnson gave us full-fledged Vietnam. Nixon continued and finished that war. Carter’s weakness brought us the unpunished seizing of our embassy (an act of war). Reagan gave us only a few tiny actions (Beirut, Grenada, Honduras). Bush 41 gave us war in Kuwait. Clinton gave us Kosovo (We’re still there) and Somalia. Bush ’43 brought us Irag and Afghanistan. Obama brings us Libya and a ramped-up Afghanistan.
The only Presidents we have had in the past hundred years who did not bring us war were Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower, Hoover, Coolidge, and Harding… all Republicans, mind you. Democrats always bring us war. Always.
For the Senate to pass a Resolution that
(7) urges the United Nations Security Council
to take such further action as may be necessary to
protect civilians in Libya from attack, including the
possible imposition of a no-fly zone over Libyan ter21
ritory;
says absolutely nothing about urging the US to participate in such an action.
This same Resolution also urged the ‘African nations to take action to address the human rights crisis in Libya’.
With regard to the use of force by the US – not a word. Instead, it “welcomes the outreach that has begun by the United States Government to Libyan opposition figures”. Period.
Obama and his Gang – are manipulators. Obama has no principles, no integrity; he just likes power.
He’s pulling a page out of Pelosi’s playbook, “deeming it passed” by the Senate, which is almost like passing it, so close enough. I guess they’re afraid of the optics of going to war without congressional sanction, while vacationing in Latin America. It’ll make for some pretty ugly clips in ads next year as the Republicans start the campaigning in ernest.
Too bad our CIC was hobbled by his mother-in-law’s friend who didn’t want to cut short her vacation . . . /sarc.
Goody! More nomenclature type thingy’s to sort out like the ‘Rubik’s Cube’ my language has become.
On top of the attempt to reduce Jomini’s vocabulary of war to ‘no-fly zone’, I get to see the word ‘approved’ used in place of ‘had not a clue’ and having a back-hoe taken to the phrase ‘not at all’ until it means ‘in its own way’.
Mutilating the English language is now almost as popular as Egyptian parents sneaking up on the private parts of their 6 to 11 yr. old girls although in our case you can’t say there are no hard feelings. Not that there aren’t any but we just don’t know how to say it; the rythmic stutterings that emerge from our lips could mean almost anything.
“nonbinding hotlined no-debate no-vote” translates into “CIA Ray-Bans™” as nicely, neatly and naturally as Pa dovetails into Ma.
‘Dithered’ has entered the lexicon of golfing fanatics and the phrase ‘Please take back this sandwich, I don’t like mayo’ is an Arab League resolution. Giving orders now means, ‘conversations’ and ‘consulting’ means ‘ignoring’.
I am giddy and excited about the future as it is really exciting to not be sure of what I or other people are going to say next. The suspense is killing me – and Libyans.
Well, you know what they say: “All mimsy were the borogoves and a jabberwocky in-country is worth two in the no-fly zone”.
I should mention that your use of ‘you-name-it’ was spot on.
What the devil are you talking about? Why do you hate the English language so? Are you so afraid of being misunderstood that you resort to making your points in the most arcanely obtuse terms possible?
“My hovercraft is full of eels.” – Monty Python
I fear being misunderstood more than that horror thingy that bent the door inwards in Robert Wise’s “The Haunting”
However I fear the 1999 version of “The Haunting” more than I fear being misunderstood.
To reiterate my fear index:
“The Haunting” (1999)
Being misunderstood
“The Haunting” (1964)
I must say that this Mother Trucker has got the Government of this country on their knees and the Muslim world is rising higher each day he is in office. This has got to be the worst bunch of chicken crap leaders on the hill that this country has ever experienced and I hope when this is all over they are all indicted for negligence in office and treason for aiding and abetting the treaonous act of selling the United states of America to the Muslim world
What’s with this “grousing loudly”? Congress has not only the prerogative but the RIGHT embedded in the Constitution to STOP Obama in this flight into irreality. AND one might suppose the DUTY.
But as with Vietnam no courage among these craven politicians paid to be brave, to GUARD the RIGHTS of AMERICANS. NOT the Privileges of that foreign group called the UN which answers IN NO WAY to the American People except through these same craven politicians. Kennedy was also not stopped in a war he called a military excursion. BUT a lawful military draft for the non-elite college students was nevertheless established AGAIN WITHOUT PROTEST from the guardians of Americans RIGHTS in the Congress.
It is especially unreal that if the Congress cares nothing about their duty to defend the Rights (Constitutional) of American citizens, that they are not jealous of their own prerogatives to decide what and when is War, without which the President CANNOT pursue such activity. DOESN’T CONGRESS KNOW THIS? BUT permits this vandal Obama to walk over them again and again and again with no other action than “grousing loudly”.
What in God’s name is happening in the USA that NONE of the elected “representatives” will beard this vandal and his destroyeres in the White House. For such people brave men died and continue to die to “preserve freedom”? What freedom, WHOSE FREEDOM ?
You should remember that one of the two chambers of the U.S. Congress remains in control of the Party of Treason! Harry Reid’s purpose for living is to turn the Constitution into toilet paper. Hillary is showing us that she would have been as bad a choice as the Obumer. Robert Gates is a liar, a coward and a traitor.
When your life view is that truth doesn’t exist, and that facts are only facts to one individual at a time, lying is like a bulls eye a mile wide, and you are shooting from a foot away.
The only thing surprising about anything they do or say is the lack of shame.
Only pschopaths have no shame.
That’s why I don’t think anything is beyond them. When they get full control, like for every totalitarian before them, your life will be lived at their whim.
OK the no fly zone is fact. Now the the playing field is somewhat level we should step back and let them kill each other. No matter which side wins we will have less enemies. Congress can if they have the nerve refuse to fund the Libyan fiasco.
Lets have our congress do everything in the middle of the night. No one there to say no. Then we could just read about it tomorrow or a few weeks from now. How about another trillion or three just in case I want it?
Anyone, whom believes anything that is published by this Regime, is also convinced the planet is flat, and the sun rises in the west.
The American people are on a mission to raise the level of absolute ignorance and stupidity, albeit at an enormous price to the citizens.
The blind deference shown to this pathetic individual inhabiting the White House is nothing but criminal negligence.
The disaster unfolding in the United States shall be a disaster far more devastating and costly than any nuclear disaster in the Pacific.
Communist Russia could only dream of obtaining the power the Democrat Party has attained in the last 6 years.
No amount of money shall deter these frivolous felons.
The parasites that are left will have to start eating each other for survival.
Obama with the 85, LBJ with the Tonkin Resolution… these Democrats are bloodthirsty bunch, looking for any excuse to shed blood.
I don’t care what anyone says. I know crap when I hear it.
It amuses me when I come across articles written by well intended, articulate authors (such as Claudia Rosett) framing an issue (any issue, not just this one about the no-fly zone over Libya and the lack of Congressional authozation to BHO hereto) where actions (or lack thereof) by this fraud in the WH are analyzed.
In fact, I must admit I’m kind of tired reading such otherwise well documented treatises. My reaction always comes down to this: why do we offer this fraud any legitimacy at all? Why do we even bother to document our positions on any subject having to do with him and his (economically and politically) corrupt to the bone administration, when he’s shown the American people such disrespect by not supplying us the necessary documentation to prove to us that he’s a legitimate and trustworthy individual to occupy the Office he’s currently occupying and with whom we could have such discussions?
I’m beyond analyzing this fraud and his (in)actions anymore. Anything he does/says carries no credibility whatsoever at least with me (and from what I can tell from various polls with hundreds of millions of Americans). I’m sorry I had to piggyback such negative reaction to this, otherwise fine, article, but I’ve had just about enough with him and what he has done to my country.
“They’re ignoring a key fact”–Donna Cassata, AP
No, they aren’t. There was no vote in Congress to take military action against Libya, even though there is supposed to be before we start making war, and that’s what people are complaining about.
Nobody ignored a key fact, and anyone who asserts otherwise is a bald-faced liar.
obama was / is a community organizer. the most deceitful foul people that roam the earth.
they wouldn’t recognize the truth if their lives depended on it.
to them the truth is just inconvenient.
Everything this president has done demonstrates that he operates under the belief that it’s easier to get forgiveness than it is to get permission. As long as he gets away with it, he’ll continue to do whatever he likes, and provide justifications later. He has all the makings of a Hugo Chavez.
‘Becca, I love your take! I love it because it strikes me as the way President Pantywaist likely behaved with his mommy. Now Congress and we citizens are his mommy. I have a sneaking suspicion that you are a psychotherapist or counselor.
The Democrat Party indulged in typical Democrat law-making (no debate, not knowing the contents of the bill, etc.), and the Congress did approve the no-fly zone, at least that part of the Congress that is important–the half controlled by the Democrat Party. That other part doesn’t count. And since the part that did count approved in its usual fashion, the whole approved, because if the President does it, it is Constitutional and it is legal.
Don’t you know how our form of government works?