The situation in Libya is deteriorating rapidly. It is clear that NATO went in half-cocked with no clear mission and has only succeeded in wasting at least $1 billion and countless lives with no tangible results. They thought they would lob in a few bombs and Gaddafi would fold like a cheap umbrella. They were wrong. Now NATO is running out of planes, ships and ammunition. Our typically limp wristed European allies, not Gaddafi, are the ones ready to fold.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/analysis-nato-first-blink-gaddafis-war-nerves-102552889.html
Obama is trying to explain to Congress why he made the decision to surrender U.S. foreign policy to France so we could carry the heavy lifting on another French fiasco. This is beyond bad. It is one thing to thumb your nose at congress and the U.S. Constitution so you can play at war. It is a whole new level of incompetence when you stupidly turn command over to the French and expect anything other than an embarrassing surrender. At this rate, we will be lucky to just find a way out of this mess.
In the ultimate irony Dennis Kucinich, who tried to impeach George W. Bush with regard to the war in Iraq, just praised Bush in comparison to Obama. Kucinich pointed out, correctly, that unlike Barack Obama; Bush did consult congress and ask for authorization before going to war. Now when an extreme left wing guy like Kucinich makes this kind of comment it is proof positive that Obama has lost the extreme left wing base of the Democratic Party.
The latest poll results show public support for our military intervention is Libya is evaporating:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/184288.html
Obama desperately needs support, either from Democrats or Republicans. But, he is making it nearly impossible for anyone to give him that support. In his latest move, he is refusing to give congress any more information:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/166871-white-house-says-libya-report-should-suffice
Obama’s political support is leaking like a sieve. One of the few people still supporting our efforts in Libya is John McCain. Yet while McCain continues to support the mission, in doing so he does even more damage to Obama:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/166883-mccain-slams-obama-yet-supports-libya-effort-
“The administration made an announcement that will strike most of my colleagues as a confusing breach of common sense,” said McCain, referring to a 32-page report released by the White House that argues the Libya mission does not need congressional authorization because it doesn’t amount to “hostilities.”
“The administration sought the blessings of the United Nations, the Arab League and NATO before using force in Libya but still has not sought a similar authorization or statement approval from the representatives of the American people,” McCain said.
The accumulated consequences of all this delay, confusion and obfuscation has been a wholesale revolt in Congress against the administration’s policy.”
In other words, McCain is acknowledging that Obama is an incompetent boob, but argues we still need to support him because losing to Gaddafi would be even worse. When your friends are talking like this, you don’t need enemies.
Today this situation has exploded. Both Democratic and Republican leaders are stunned and outraged. The problem is that Obama has lied one too many times. Those of us who have been paying attention already know that Obama is the liar in chief. He lied about his personal history. He lied about his relationship with William Ayers. He lied about his relationship with Reverend Wright. He lied about his home purchase. He lied about his health care plan. He lied about his political appointees. He lied about the economy. He lied about the jobs he created. But the main stream media just continued to give him a free pass. But now he has lied about a war in a way that is beyond ridiculous. The following article explains this very well:
We have got drone attacks under way, we’re spending $10 million a day,” Boehner told reporters. “We’re part of an effort to drop bombs on Gadhafi’s compound. It doesn’t pass the straight-face test, in my view, that we’re not in the midst of hostilities.”
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., a combat veteran and member of the Armed Services Committee, scoffed at the notion.
“Spending a billion dollars and dropping bombs on people sounds like hostilities to me,” Webb said in an interview.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., called the claims “really totally bizarre.” Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., said telling Congress and Americans “that this is not a war insults our intelligence. I won’t stand for it and neither will my constituents.”
Obama has put himself into a remarkably similar box as Anthony Weiner. He has been caught in a bald faced lie. No one, and I mean no one, is even arguing that Obama is telling the truth. Even Nancy Pelosi, who is trying to support him, said the following:
Countering the criticism, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Obama did not need congressional authorization, but she acknowledged the congressional frustration.
“It’s like a marriage,” Pelosi said. “You may think you’re communicating, but if the other party doesn’t think you’re communicating, you’re not communicating enough
Some Democrats wanted to impeach George Bush for lying about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But the problem was that they could not find one single example of where Bush lied. Senator Jay Rockefeller looked at every single statement made by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Powell prior to the war and could not find anything that was inconsistent with the intelligence. The best he could even offer was that on a couple occasions Cheney and Rumsfeld “exaggered” the risk. Yet now we have a President who has lied repeatedly and this time it is really easy to prove. Which is worse, lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, when most people in both parties already believed they existed, or lying about sending troops into combat by pretending there is no combat?
Six weeks ago I would have said that there was no possibility that anyone would even consider impeaching Obama. Republicans sure don’t want to do that, because they are still smarting over the backlash from the Clinton impeachment. Democrats don’t want to do that, because Obama is one of their own. Yet Obama’s stubborn refusal to deal with reality and his obvious lies could end up forcing one or even both of them to do the unthinkable. At some point, if things continue on this path, there may be no other option. Both Republicans and Democrats have been saying that Obama has violated the law and is ignoring the constitution. Now they are saying he is lying about it. Someone is bound to ask the obvious question: “if this is true, why aren’t you doing something about it?”
TDM