House Prepares to Rebuke Obama Over Libya

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We get it. Un-American House GOP hate President Obama & want him to fail so they can take back the White House (even if US economy & the American people suffer as a result). It's why GOP blocked 34 Obama bills in 2010, including many jobs bills - they don't care about jobs for the unemployed, they only care about blunting & defunding Obama's recovery policies so they can falsely claim "Obama failed".
Libya is same deal. House GOP let George Bush kill 4,700 American servicemen and lie that it would only cost $50 billion, then blew $3 trillion on his dumb Iraq war... without House GOP rebuke.
But something much more troubling is coming out of Eric Cantor & House GOP which I believe merits a BIG rebuke; from the DOJ. Cantor said "tax cuts are off the table" in the upcoming Debt Ceiling debate & House GOP is treachorously prepared to imperil US & world economies unless they get their way.
Why are tax cuts off the table?
Because it's written in the Constitution that in 2012 US individual & corporate taxes had to stay at lowest rate in 60 years & Congress GOP could NEVER raise taxes, even when it was unreasonable to keep them so low?
No, because House GOP signed Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge. Grover Norquist is a radical RW aactivist & lobbyist.
By signing Norquist's pledge House GOP relinquished any "freedom" to increase taxes, even in order to generate critical federal revenues, at a time when the nation's economy is in crisis & when a weakened economy is considered a national security risk. They also relinquished "freedom" to honor the terms laid out in Bush Tax Cuts Law, which required the reduced tax rates (designed to pass through 65% of financial benefit to Top 1%-5% richest Americans) to revert to same rates as in Clinton era, when the economy prospered and 25,000,000 jobs were created vs net 3,000,000 under GOP/Bush. Worse stiil, to cover up the fact that the Bush Tax Cuts Law prescribed the return of tax rates to pre-2001 levels, Eric Cantor and House GOP have misled the American public by demagoguing "Obama's Massive Tax Hikes"...
By relinquishing their "freedom" & binding themselves to lobbyist Grover's anti-tax pledge, they openly mocked & rejected their Constitutional Oath of Congressional Office "..to bear true faith and allegiance... that I take this obligation FREELY, without any mental reservation or PURPOSE OF EVASION; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office...".
The Constitution was designed to serve ALL Americans, both rich AND poor, & the 16th Amendment empowers Congress to increase federal taxes. In honoring Norquist's pledge, House GOP agreed to disabuse its Congressional powers and serve only the needs of a small specific group of unidentified special interests represented by the lobbyist...even if to do so endangers the US economy.
House GOP's arrogant refusal to "take taxes off the table" is unconstitutional & an ethical breach of their constitutional oath of office.

Truthbuster of NY 2:51PM June 10, 2011

Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave with all these conservatives defending Muammar Kaddafi over our own. American used to be united in fighting terrorists and horrible dictators like Kaddafi, Reagan's nemesis.

Rocky of ID 12:45AM June 09, 2011

You might want to rethink you statements;
"Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, called for the withdrawal of all U.S. military support within 15 days. His resolution attracted 148 votes, 87 of which were from Republicans. A second resolution, submitted by House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, passed 268-145, with support from 45 Democrats. The resolution states that authorization for involvement in Libya has been neither requested nor granted, asks the president to provide detailed information on the mission within 14 days and reaffirms that American ground troops should not be sent to Libya."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/3/obamas-nonwar-in-libya/
Yes - it was a Democrat that put forward the stronger resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal, and the Repubs the milder one, just asking for stated justification.
So WHO is interfering with and harassing Obama more?

junior of DC 8:55PM June 06, 2011

Yeah right, we all know this is nothing but politIcs. The house is going to harass Obama everyday they can. Remember Gingrich and his henchmen, how they did nothing but harass Clinton for eight years. This is all they are about. It is their modus operandi, make politcal hay. Bugger the country. It's all about us. Yeah, we have seen it all before. Why should we expect any more from them? In fact they probably got their playbook from Gingrich . Talk about a dirty dog. Well, expect more of the same. They don't know anything else.

Ruction of CO 11:19PM June 04, 2011

Why didn't the house rebuke bush for his blunders and machinations? They cost us trillions. We still haven't extricated ouselves from those quagmires. Why is it that the republicans are only concerned about spending or military intervention when someone else is in power. The duplicity is glaring. They never said a word to bush about his fiascos. When bush doubled the deficit they were right there at the feeding trough. It looks like a GOP is nothing but a two-faced SOB.

Cut-the-crap of CO 9:02PM June 04, 2011

Truth of it is that Boehner had to pass this wimpy resolution to avoid the very real prospect of the House passing Dennis Kucinich's bill to call for complete withdrawal of troops. Kucinich's bill had a very real chance of passing with unruly greenhorn Repugs in the House. How embarrassing to Boehner that Kucinich almost assumed leadership of the House in foreign policy.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/house-passes-john-boehners-modest-libya-resolution-defeats-dennis-kucinichs-measure-to-withdraw-troo.html
This is no rebuke, it more worthless legislation dead on arrival in the Senate.
If anything it sticks of BP trying to restore Gaddafi and their deal for sweet crude from the dictator.
This is another fumble by Boehner in fantasyland and his career as Speaker of the House looks pretty short.

Frank of KS 6:44PM June 04, 2011

I know that "with great power comes great responsibility", but this may be our only chance -- IMPEACH!

Mer-man of WA 3:29PM June 04, 2011

From the Washington Times: Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops to the international military mission in Libya...“He has a chance to get this right. If he doesn’t, Congress will exercise its constitutional authority and make it right,” said House Speaker John A. Boehner, the Ohio Republican who wrote the resolution that passed, 268-145, and sets a two-week deadline for the president to deliver the information the House is seeking.

Peter Roff, U.S. News of DC 10:37PM June 03, 2011

I promise them that if they don't solve our concerns before they start wrapping themselves around "The National Ensign," they [The GOP] are going to be in a world of political hurt.

Ernest H. Dervishian of VA 4:59PM June 03, 2011

We Americans are on to the scam by the house GOP. They are trying to keep campaign funds coming from BIG OIL. [a criminal enterprise] A democratic Middle East is not conducive to high oil prices for these dictatorships. So, the GOP are on a campaign or a tour, if you will, on a HOG with Sarah Palin , to promote "Zed" aka BIG OIL. ["Pulp Fiction"] Let us all hope that "Zed" will be dead soon.
GE, the GOP and BIG OIL are just as adorable as those three little pigs in Orwell's "Animal Farm." GE PAID NO TAXES THIS YEAR. I suggest that we take them down abandoned mine shafts to have them "slaughtered" and in about a 100 years they may emerge from those mine shafts and reflect in nostalgic terms on their American experiences.
The GOP should be spending more time championing the true values of America. Those values are reflected by recognizing the Armenian/Assyrian/Chaldean/Greek/Pontic....etc...etc...etc... Genocides.
Otherwise, I promise you that I will paint them in their true colors of the most unpatriotic and un-American group of scum bags the world has ever seen.

Ernest H. Dervishian of VA 4:55PM June 03, 2011