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In Britain, if the Prime Minister is hit with a no confidence vote, the immediate response is a resignation and a call for elections.\u00a0\u00a0 Barack Obama got a no confidence vote from the United States House of Representatives.\u00a0 What is more shocking is that over half of the Democratic Caucus voted against Obama.\u00a0 I am still doing some research, but I believe this is unprecedented.\u00a0 Even Nixon, at his worst, did not have this happen.\u00a0 There have been several times when congress was furious with a U.S. President.\u00a0 Democrats wanted to demand that George Bush surrender in Iraq and start withdrawing troops.\u00a0 But while they huffed and puffed about it, they never came close to passing this kind of resolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0This is very damaging to Obama and potentially even more damaging to the United States of America.\u00a0 The problem is that the U.S. Congress just told the world that they do not trust Obama\u2019s ability to make foreign policy decisions.<\/p>\n

The War Powers Act was passed in 1973, over the veto of Richard Nixon.\u00a0 Every subsequent President has felt that the law was unconstitutional.\u00a0 However, prior to Obama, no President was willing to push the envelope far enough to bring this to a head.\u00a0 Some Presidents, particularly Bill Clinton, ordered troops into combat for long periods of time without consulting congress.\u00a0 Although Democrats like to pretend that George Bush conducted an illegal war, the opposite is true.\u00a0 Bush went to congress and received bi-partisan authorization for his efforts in both Afghanistan and Iraq.\u00a0 Democrats made a lot of noise, but they never even tried to force a vote to withdraw that authorization.<\/p>\n

Republicans are far more hesitant than Democrats to challenge a President with regard to the War Powers Act.\u00a0 That is because Republicans believe that partisanship should end at the nation\u2019s borders.\u00a0 Challenging a President with regard to military actions has typically been the exclusive turf of the liberal Democrats.\u00a0 That is still true today, with Dennis Kucinich drafting a far stronger resolution than the one introduced by John Boehner.\u00a0\u00a0 John Boehner may even have introduced his resolution as a last-ditch effort to allow Obama one last chance to avoid a constitutional challenge.\u00a0 The following article by the Christian Science Monitor<\/em> is excellent:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2011\/0603\/Libya-vote-How-Speaker-Boehner-preserved-GOP-unity-and-US-NATO-ties<\/a><\/p>\n

No matter how this turns out, it is a serious blow to the Obama Presidency.\u00a0 He now has two choices.\u00a0 He can come to congress with hat in hand, or he is likely to be facing a serious and immediate constitutional crisis.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine the Supreme Court sitting this one out, and Obama may have more to fear from the liberal justices than the conservative justices.\u00a0 The implications are enormous if the War Powers Act is declared unconstitutional.\u00a0\u00a0 If it is constitutional, the President just deliberately violated the constitution.<\/p>\n

Other Presidents were far too smart to get boxed into this kind of corner.\u00a0 Instead, they reached out to congress and, without admitting the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, they yielded enough to keep congress happy.\u00a0 Obama has done the exact opposite.\u00a0 He publicly defied congress and said he did not want or need their approval.\u00a0 That angered people in both parties.<\/p>\n

This was very unnecessary.\u00a0 Obama had support for what he was doing in Libya.\u00a0 He would have gotten more support from Republicans than from Democrats.\u00a0 They just wanted him to at least pretend to consult them.\u00a0 But Obama is so arrogant that he decided to just thumb his nose at congress.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Obama will get lucky and take out Ghadafi within the next 14 days.\u00a0 But if I were advising Ghadafi, I would tell him that if he just hunkers down in the deepest bunker for two weeks Obama will have to quit.\u00a0 I think the odds of getting Ghadafi just went way down.\u00a0 The only exit strategy I can imagine is for Obama is to find some excuse to declare victory, give a great speech patting himself on the back, then quickly shut down combat operations.\u00a0 But if Ghadafi is still in power, that will be very difficult.\u00a0 Our NATO allies have to be furious with Obama.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The main stream media is ignoring this story, but that will change dramatically in a short period of time if congress invokes the War Powers Act and forces a constitutional crisis.<\/p>\n

\u00a0TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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