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Senate Complicit in Obama's Libya Mistake
Tweet Share on Facebook June 30, 2011 Comment (8)Lovers of fiction, legal and otherwise, will long be feasting on the farce the Obama administration puts on before American people in whose name it pretends to govern. Now in its 14th week in what may be a perpetual run, the saga When is a War Not a War? has broadened its White House cast to include members of Congress. That, of course, is the institution charged by the Constitution with holding the president to account, something it seems unwilling to do.
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Congress Fails to Hold Obama Accountable for Libya Mistakes
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2011 Comment (11)President Barack Obama seems hellbent on reigniting the centuries-old battle between the executive and legislative branches over which has the final say over the authorization of military force and for how long. Obama’s stubbornness and intransigence, like that of Wilson, LBJ, Nixon, and Bush 43 before him, may render his successors less, rather than more able to assert American power in defense of real and readily identifiable national security interests. Such proved the case when Congress re-asserted itself in the aftermath of previous wars the nation waged in pursuit of abstract and ill-defined objectives.
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Jon Huntsman Is the Media's 2012 Flavor of the Moment
Tweet Share on Facebook June 16, 2011 Comment (1)Every four or eight years, the media decides that the current crop of presidential contenders is not up to the task of being president, by their lights. They then create a bubble of relentless coverage of the person they deem might be.
Back in 1964, they helped fuel the short but memorable campaign Henry Cabot Lodge, then U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam. With the conventional wisdom then holding that Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was too conservative and that former front-runner New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was too liberal, and that his personal life was too unconventional and complicated, leading publications and commentators touted Lodge as the perfect choice.
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Congress Rolls Over for Obama on Libya
Tweet Share on Facebook June 9, 2011 Comment (3)As Congress and the media remain fixated on the latest sexcapade to hit Capitol Hill, both devote the scantest attention to an even greater scandal: Congress’s abnegation of its constitutional duty to give its ascent to the president’s placing of U.S. troops in harm’s way and to compel him to tell the American people what objective he seeks to further through his actions.
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With Romney, Palin, No Wonder GOP Is Looking for Alternatives
Tweet Share on Facebook June 2, 2011 Comment (9)Anyone unfortunate enough to have caught the two best known of the Republican likely or potential presidential contenders on television over the Memorial Day holiday can appreciate why the party’s rank and file as well as its establishment pine for alternatives. In an obvious attempt to “humanize” their client, Mitt Romney’s handlers allowed him to appear on NBC’s Today Show. Palin’s latest team sent her on a bus tour with no apparent purpose other than to remind her supporters that she is still around.
