Obama’s Libyan Adventure Hits 60-Day Legal Limit Under War Powers Act Today…
The rules don’t apply to Obama, he’s special, just ask him.
(ABC News) — The legal license President Obama used to justify U.S. military intervention in Libya expires today, and there’s little sign the White House is working quickly to get it renewed.
Exactly two months ago, Obama notified Congress of his unilateral decision to engage in “limited military action” to help defend the Libyan people from attacks by their leader, Moammar Gadhafi.
But under federal law — the War Powers Resolution of 1973 — Obama is only allowed to keep U.S. forces engaged in hostilities for 60 days, unless Congress declares war, authorizes funding for the effort or extends the deadline.
Congress has not enacted legislation authorizing military involvement in Libya, and the White House has not made a public effort to comply with the rule.
Experts say this is the first time an American president has defied the War Powers Resolution’s deadline for participation in combat operations without any concurrent steps by Congress to fund or otherwise authorize the role.
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Can you say…IMPEACHMENT?
With all the fire that this administration is playing with it is long overdue that they get burned.
THE GANGSTER AND CHIEF
I`d love to see Obama walking out the White House in handcuffs today just as Bibi arrives.
What a Kodak moment that would be.
Just another thing that Il Douche will ignore (if he even knows…?)….Who will call him on it in the govt? We know that the MSM won’t.
Congress has been a ceremonial chamber since 1933. They abdicated power to the executive since. The Emergency Powers act of 1933 gives the executive powers not provided in the constitution , all that the president has to do is claim it’s power by listing an emergency as justification. This along with trading with the enemy act ( which includes americans listed ass an enemy ) gives the executive dictator like powers. Every President since 33 has authorized it. Obama listed 911 as the reason he needed the power. This is how the president can rule by executive order. In the 1970′s the senate held hearing to reign in the EPA of 33 and realized it was too late.
Impeach the BASTARD!
Remember. No one is above the law.
Maybe we could deport him to his homeland…………
Impeach now!
This has gone on long enough!!!!!!!!!!
We the people are getting NUMB due to all the lawlessness. But I guess that’s teh idea after all!
http://www.uhuh.com/laws/warpow.htm
War Powers Act …
On November 19, 1973, the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency presented Senate Report 93-549 at the first session of the 93rd Congress. The Introduction to the report, an examination of existing War and Emergency Powers Acts, states:
“Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Harry S. Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Richard M. Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971. These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens. With the melting of the cold war–the developing detente with the Soviet Union and China, the stable truce of over 20 years duration between North and South Korea, and the end of U.S. involvement in the war in Indochina-there is no present need for the United States Government to continue to function under emergency conditions.”[4]
However, in relating an overview of the history of this emergency rule, the Committee admitted that
“A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency. The problem of how a constitutional democracy reacts to great crises, however, far antedates the Great Depression. As a philosophical issue, its origins reach back to the Greek city-states and the Roman Republic. And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have-from, at least, the Civil War-in important ways, shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency.
President Woodrow Wilson, after the Allied victory of World War I, “relinquished his wartime authority and asked Congress to repeal the emergency statutes, enacted to fight more effectively the war. Only a food-control measure and the 1917 Trading With the Enemy Act were retained. This procedure of terminating emergency powers when the particular emergency itself has, in fact, ended has not been consistently followed by his successors.
In fact, the Report continues, the “Trading With the Enemy Act had, however, been specifically designed by its originators to meet only wartime exigencies. By employing it to meet the demands of the depression, Roosevelt greatly extended the concept of emergencies to which expansion of executive powers might be applied. And in so doing, he established a pattern that was followed frequently: In time of crisis the President should utilize any statutory authority readily at hand, regardless of its original purposes, with the firm expectation of ex post facto congressional concurrence … Beginning with F.D.R., then, extensive use of delegated powers exercised under an aura of crisis has become a dominant aspect of the presidency. Concomitant with this development has been a demeaning of the significance of emergency.
The Report states, “Because Congress and the public are unaware of the extent of emergency powers, there has never been any notable congressional or public objection made to this state of affairs. Nor have the courts imposed significant limitations … the temporary states of emergency declared in 1938, 1939, 1941, 1950, 1970, and 1971 would become what are now regarded collectively as virtually permanent states of emergency (the 1939 and 1941 emergencies were terminated in 1952). Forty years can, in no way, be defined as a temporary emergency.
Secondly, it adds, “the various administrations who drafted these laws for a variety of reasons were understandably not concerned about providing for congressional review, oversight, or termination of these delegated powers which gave the President enormous powers and flexibility to use those powers.
The Special Committee’s opinion was that, “In the view of the Special Committee, an emergency does not now exist. Congress, therefore, should act in the near future to terminate officially the states of national emergency now in effect”, although the Committee was also “of the view that it is essential to provide the means for the Executive to act effectively in an emergency. It is reasonable to have a body of laws in readiness to delegate to the President extraordinary powers to use in times of real national emergency.
They’ll give him a Pass………………..don’t want to be called Racist now do we ?
And who’s going to stop me? The Republicans? Hahahahahaha.
“ The legal license President Obama used to justify U.S. military intervention in Libya expires today, and there’s little sign the White House is working quickly to get it renewed.”
See here is what everyone is getting hooked on-→ “Legal license”.
Obama and his administration has shown time and time again that they could careless about legal actions, the Constitution, we the people and will continue to do just about anything he fucking wants to.
What are we going to do about it? Nothing why??? Because we only have the Congress on our side not the Senate and without the Senate approving impeachment we get squat done.
The Secret Service won’t step up to the plate and arrest Obama and I’m pretty sure the Republicans in office are just going to sit on their hands like the good puppets they are and were going to be stuck with a third war to pay for.
How do we fix this without an all our revolution?
Can we get a Sheriff to come in and arrest Obama if he wanders into a republican run county? A sheriff has the authority to arrest a president. Other wise he will keep doing what he’s doing.
The progressives have done their work and they know we really can’t do shit to obama with out starting a race and union war. he is to well protected and we are sitting ducks. This sucks ass.
Where’s the Mossad or KGB when we need them?
This corrupt administration seems to set a new precedent for bad /illeagal behavior every single day.
Fortunately President Obawful also alienates more and more of his moderate liberal base everyday as well, with his extremely radical leftist behavior.
The 2012 election will not even be close. I pray he is led from the White House in handcuffs very soon, for betraying our nation. Or is that racist?
This is stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance, all wrapped in one package. I can almost guarantee you that Obama is sitting in the Oval Office right now with a nervous staffer (who’s been bugging him for weeks about this “War” thing), saying, “So, what – you mean I have to do something else? But I’m the President. I did it, so it’s done. Right?”
“Um, no, Mr. President. See, there’s this legal thing called the War Powers Act-”
“Yeah, I know it. Useful.”
“Yes, well, you see, it requires that the President either withdraw forces after sixty days, or that Congress give approval for continued action. Um, and neither of those has happened. And, um, it’s sixty days today.”
“Yeah. So?”
“So… you’ll be in violation of the law.”
“No I won’t.”
“Um, yes you will.”
“No, I won’t.”
“Mr. President, you WILL.”
“Did you just hear yourself?”
“I’m sorry?”
“What did you just say to me.”
“Um… I said Mr. President-”
“That. Stop there. Did you hear that? I’m the PRESIDENT. I can’t break the law. I am ABOVE the law. The law doesn’t apply to me.”
“Um… no. You aren’t. And yes. Yes it does.”
“President.”
“President, but bound by law. Sir.”
“Pres. I. Dent.”
“Um… The Constitution says-”
“The Constitution is, what? A thousand years old or something? It’s outdated. Passe. I’ve got a meeting coming up with Bill Ayers about revising it, actually.”
“That would require a Constitutional Convention, sir, and-”
“PRESIDENT PRESIDENT PRESIDENT.”
“Um…”
“Run along, little staffer. Run along. I’ve got some golf to play.”
Obama is a TYRANT!
Obama no doubt is chuckling and saying ” Fuck them, what are they going to do about it ! ” and he’s right…NOTHING.
MWR:
Caught between LMAO at the humor, and sobbing uncontrollably at the possible truth of it.
Well, can we cut his damned head off then?
Anyone else thinking obama purposely threw Israel under the bus to distract from his violating the law.Wait for it,but when this eventually does surface obama will call it a distraction.
@MWR
LOL
And like all of his other treasons and felonies, the Federal government will just stand by and watch. The rule of law is gone, and the USURPER has divine control over all of the Fed agencies and congress, they appease his and worship him.
Most corrupt Pres. ever.
Outrage ! Who expects outrage ? The Senate is on record just a few weeks ago rejecting the idea that the President had to go to Congress to wage war like that in Libya …
Back in 2007, Senator Obama told the Boston Globe “the president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the (U.S.) nation.”
Paul said he wanted the Senate to endorse Obama’s past words and thus establish that the president had overreached in authorizing the U.S. action in Libya last month without first obtaining Congress’ approval.
The Senate rejected pre-Nobel-Obama’s view by 90-10
He can do it because he’s the peace president don’t you know!!!
THERE IS ONE THING IN LIFE BEFORE I DIE IS TO SEE OBAMA IN JAIL…
I DON’T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS MAN, NOTHING, BUT HE SURE CAN LIE HIS WAY OUT OF HELL?…WHY DO WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS B.S./BECAUSE HE’S BLACK? TO MY AMERICAN CITIZENS, HE’S LAUGHING AT THE U.S.A. HE’S MAKING AN ASS OUT OF YOU, I SICK THAT NOT ONE PERSON IN CONGRESS, SENATE, JUDGE WILL PROTECT THE PEOPLE’S RIGHT…THE RIGHT TO KNOW ”WHO IN THE HELL HE IS…..LIE, LIES, AND MORE LIES….OPEN YOUR EYE’S AMERICA, OUR TIME OF LOSING ‘AMERICA’ IS CLOSE, OBAMA SAID HE’S A 2 TIME PRESIDENT, THE OTHER DAY HE SAID HE WILL NOT RUN AGAIN, READ
(WHICH HE CAN’T) BETWEEN THE LINE RUN AGAIN, THAT MEANS HE WILL NOT STEP DOWN.
Susanm, I share your frustration, I have posted similar post on this site , but nothing changes for the better. I email my congress critters at least twice a week, at first they would respond, but now they do not even recognize my calls or emails.
Oh by the way my moronic congress people are from the land of corrupt politicians, MARYLAND.
So what!
This is also the first time that a President has presented a Forged Birth Certificate, and the first time that a President has used a Stolen Social Security Number.
Is anyone going to do anything to hold him accountable for anything?
I sincerely doubt it!
Contact your representatives, if you don’t than it is you who won’t be doing anything. Send them a fax, an email, give them a call. Call your local TV stations………agitate, agitate, agitate.
The precedent has been set. President Palin can do whatever the hell she wants.