Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta and John Kerry all shrugged off the House’s resolution on the war in Iraq as irrelevant.  Kerry said neither measure will even come up for a vote in the Senate.  This story is about to go in one of two directions very quickly.  Either the House will meekly back down, giving this President free reign, or they will challenge him.  My hunch is that a big time challenge is right around the corner.

President Obama has mishandled everything since he became President, and we are paying a price for it all over the world.  Our economy is headed toward a double digit recession and our foreign affairs are in shambles.  There is zero evidence of brilliant leadership here, just one gaff after another.  It is an unprecedented combination of arrogance and incompetence.  No amount of main stream media spin can make up for such pathetic performance.

It would appear that his worst mistake was ignoring a direct challenge from the House of Representatives.  Ironically, if he had just asked, they probably would have grudgingly supported him on the war in Libya.  But he is too arrogant, too stubborn and too dumb to ask.

Perhaps this is a Democratic disease.  They start to believe their own lies.  If you want a recent example, look at Anthony Weiner.  Even top Democrats are asking him to resign, yet he is just now considering the possibility.  People like this are so arrogant and so narcissistic they are incapable of self-evaluation.  They live in their own delusional world where they have convinced themselves that the universe revolves around them. 

Leon Panetta is currently undergoing confirmation hearings in the Senate.  This is pretty amazing stuff.  John McCain apparently has no problem with the imperial Presidency.  Jim Webb, on the other hand, strongly disagrees.  The following article lays out the issue:

  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/panetta-obama-can-use-military-without-c

 Ironically a serious problem for Obama is that “constitutional scholar” Obama, said during the election, said that what President Obama is doing now is unconstitutional.

“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 nation.”

No one from the Obama administration has even argued that Libya was an actual or imminent threat to the nation.  That begs the question: “Was he wrong then, or is he deliberately ignoring the constitution now?”

Barack Obama has openly challenged congress and arrogantly told them they have no voice in how he uses our military.  If he had a 60% approval rating, he was winning the war and the economy was soaring, he might have gotten away with that.  But, the opposite is true.  I think congress is going to act, and they are going to do so with a fury that will be stunning to behold.  In many ways, they have no choice.  They are faced with a challenge similar to the one George Bush gave the UN.  He said you either back up what you say, or you become a meaningless organization.  What makes this so dangerous for Obama is that John Boehner will have wide-spread bi-partisan support for what he does.  I suspect we are about to find out that hell hath no fury like a congress ignored.

 TDM