Following yesterday’s votes, the House once again rejected an Amendment offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D – OH) which would have defunded the war in Libya. The vote failed 169-251 and saw solid Republican support, but coupled with overwhelming opposition from Democrats.
The new vote would have conditioned any funding of the war on the President obtaining a formal declaration of war from Congress. Yesterday’s vote was a more straightforward defunding effort, co-sponsored by Rep. Amash (R – MI), and failed 199-229.
Though both of these votes failed, they showed a solid faction opposed to the Libya conflict remains in the House of Representatives, and makes it difficult to predict if the president would be able to get a pro-war resolution through. A less ambitious amendment by Rep. Cole (R – OK) passed yesterday with overwhelming Republican support, and blocked weapons or training funding for the conflict. The vote was 225-201.
President Obama has argued he doesn’t need congressional approval for the war because, in his estimation, it doesn’t count as hostilities. He has also insisted that questioning the legality of the conflict under the War Powers Act amounts to “defending” Moammar Gadhafi. This claim about “hostilities” and legality was the opposite of the opinion he got from both Justice Department and Pentagon lawyers. The war began on March 19 and was officially in violation of the War Powers Act starting on May 20.
"WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) – A $649 billion defense spending bill for next year easily passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday after four days of debate in which war-weary lawmakers sought to curb President Barack Obama's combat operations in Afghanistan and Libya.
The measure, approved 336-87 in the Republican-dominated House, would raise the Pentagon's base budget for the 2012 fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1 by about $17 billion over current levels, despite intense pressure to slash the $1.4 trillion U.S. deficit".
And this is what we mean when we say US "democratic" government and or in general US is a militarism regime.., Now if is Barack Hussein Obama, or Nancy Pelosi, or Feinstein or for that matter other democratic warmongers.., it really doesn’t matter.., the US government and its social political system is based on a Militaristic system whereby such system the US government is bound to follow.., US is a militarism regime no matter what you call it.., Republic or Democratic.., here the wording don’t have anything to do with the social economic operating system as it operates.., capitalism is there by creating unjust and illegal wars all over the world.., Look by know everyone knows that Barack Hussein Obama did lie to the world regarding US foreign and domestic policies.., what they are doing now is to prove to the people that we can and we will screw you again unless people wakeup and see the truth that they been lied to by very same who promised them democracy.
For a moment I was hoping to read
House Amendments Defunding "Libya War Fail"
The usual bullshit post from Jason on this site: ". The vote failed 169-251 and saw solid Republican support, but coupled with overwhelming opposition from Democrats."
Solid Republican support? A majority of Republicans voted against the amendment to defund the war. Overwhelming opposition from Dems? About 40 percent of Dems supported the resolution. If you want to make a statement about partisanship and war funding, why not just report the vote totals? It takes zero time on the internet to get the vote by party.
Oppose the Libyan fraud. Make campaign Obama stay true to his word.
If you wanted more proof that the American political system and the resultant government are broken and failing then look here. We have an Executive that has gone rogue – even thumbing his nose at his own legal counsel. We have a Legislative branch that shirks its responsibilities and obligations to check the Executive when required – not to mention impeachment when the actions of the Executive are especially noxious. And we have a press corps that is bought and paid for, lock, stock, and barrel by the politicians they should be watching. And with an election coming up, what do we see? More of the same. It's no wonder the Americans remaining who still think for themselves are so discouraged with where this country has gone.
I used to advocate the populist movement to "throw all incumbents out of office." But, when that happens what are we left to consider? The Tea Party? A group that, despite what they say about themselves, is only the "far-right" wing of the Republican party – trying to deceive the voters by supposedly wrapping themselves in the flag and Constitution. But putting lipstick on a pig leaves you only with a lipsticked pig. they are not interested in seriously fixing our country. If they were then the first thing they would look at would be how much money the USG is spending on ALL their militaristic adventure. If we ended all the wars we are currently involved in and pulled all our overseas forces closer to home it would make closing the financial chasm a little easier. But even those Tea Partiers who insist they want to seriously curtail spending WON'T touch the military.
I used to believe that there would come a time when reasonable people would join together to seriously look at the problems facing our country and then do something about it.
It's time for something completely different. It's time for a serious 3rd Party – with serious people and serious ideas and serious solutions.