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No... not quite. Youre really are quite skilled at missing the point aren't you? HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 02/09/2013 11:20:02 PM

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View original postNot that are not a fair number of Rand Paul supporters that voted Obama in 2008 and whose biggest issue is anti-government and pro-pot but that really has nothing to do with what I said. The idea that Obama can lay this at feet of the republicans by just crying "obstructionism" and throwing in hands in the air is an idea from the loony left. This is a way to test the theory, if anyone on MSNBC put the idea forward you can no it come the fact free land of the far left.

I am not playing the "words mean exactly the opposite of what Merriam-Webster says they do" game again. Just yesterday Steve King (R-NY) accused Obama of "abdicated responsibility as commander-in-chief" for seeking the very congressional authorization Republicans spent months threatening to impeach him for NOT asking. It is not even obstructionism anymore, but simply "everything Obama does is always wrong; WHAT he does is irrelevant to that statement." It is a side effect of the Senate Minority Leader declaring his partys top legislative priority was ensuring Obama is a one term president. How did that work out...?

The President is not required to get Congress's permission to use military force. However, Congress is the only body that can declare war. The President is supposed to inform and consult with Congress (in reality that is the Congressional leaders), cause they cut the checks. If it is going to be a sustained military activity, then the President needs Congress to pass some sort of funding mechanism. which is what Bush did. What the President is getting criticized for now is that he has completely abdicated the decision to Congress, and then declared that he does not feel bound by their decision.

It is a completely cowardly position.

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