Obama faces bipartisan pushback on force

From THE HILL:

Lawmakers have finally come together in bipartisan fashion: to criticize Obama’s military action in Libya without consulting Congress.

President Obama has long trumpeted a desire to see lawmakers from both sides come together in bipartisan fashion, and now they have: to criticize his military action in Libya without formally consulting Congress.

In a harshly worded statement Monday evening, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) declared, “The United States does not have a King’s army.”

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  1. Candidate Obama is calling him a hypocrite!

    http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/

    “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”

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