Pointing out left wing hypocrisy is easier than hitting water when you fall out of a boat so when we find an opportunity to point out acts based on some kind of consistent principle it seems only appropriate to reward them with public comment.
From Politico
Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Donna Edwards (Md.), Mike Capuano (Mass.), Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Maxine Waters (Calif.), Rob Andrews (N.J.), Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.) “all strongly raised objections to the constitutionality of the president’s actions” during that call, said two Democratic lawmakers who took part.
Kucinich, who wanted to bring impeachment articles against both former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over Iraq — only to be blocked by his own leadership — asked why the U.S. missile strikes aren’t impeachable offenses.
Good question considering all the noise he and others made over actions by Bush 43, as pointed out here by Ed Morrissey on Hot Air.
If nothing else, Dennis Kucinich is
consistent. He wanted to push articles of impeachment against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney over the Iraq war, which his own party’s leadership squelched in the summer of 2008 — when Bush’s term had all but expired anyway. Kucinich and John Conyers instead had to settle for “
impugnment hearings,” which one witness called “slightly demented.”
Military acts without congress–in the absence of a clear and present danger–are just one more of many examples of executive overreach which presidents just take for granted. And "consulting" with "congressional leaders," whenever the commander in chief wants to toss a few missiles around, has long replaced the more appropriate permission of a majority of legislative members.
So I would like to reward Kucinich with kudos for treating Obama, at least on this issue, with the same scrutiny on military strikes though I can’t see it amounting to much more than a few mentions on right wing blogs which brings us back toward the left wing hypocrisy argument.
We could argue that it is unauthorized and unnecessary–and watch the left try to make a "humanitarian argument." We can also make it an economic issue. At
$600,000.00 each Obama just spent 60 million on Tomahawk cruise missile launches into Libya so we could fly sorties with more expensive hardware and drop pricey smart bombs on them. I’m not objecting as much as wondering where the leftistas stand on it.
Progressive-socialist democrats and liberals everywhere will want to check their notes from 2003 through 2008 to see how they felt about it back then because we will be playing by their rules on this one. Failing to comment means they support the presidents military action, which will probably paint them as hypocrites, something Kucinich at least was not.
So this is quite the target rich environment.
And it’s not every day you can lead an article with "Impeach Obama," a title guaranteed to attract left wing lurkers. But what do they do once they get here? Side with Kucinich and call out Obama, or risk exposing themselves again as talking point puppets with no real principles at all.
H/T Hot Air
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Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
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