would be a way of formalizing that consultation in a way that would do more justice than the way he said it tonight. if the l administration who could say i told them not to do this, i think we would have heard from them by now. exactly. that s why you are hearing from the tiny libertarian caucus of the republican party in the house, and the actual liberals among the democrats in the house as well, those are the people loudest on this, you re right. the congress has, over time, delegating war powers through the war powers act. is there anything that may put some kind of check or momentum on check for the president making war power? that would have to be an assertion by the obama presidency. you look at the way congress tried to stop bill clinton going
into the balance cans the way they did, his action without consulting congress was upheld as appropriate under the war powers act. a president would have to cut new ground, do something like barack obama promised as a candidate he would do, which is to say no, i believe in defining presidential authority to wage war in a way that is more explicit, and therefore more constricted. he has not done that. he is acting consistent with the way bill clinton acted and nste wh tayot pridtsct imorn tis. y out hwaogto be different on that issue in particular, you are wrong, but he makes a case on the grounds for which he did intervene. rachel, thank you. go back to your real job, dissect this speech in the next hour. i will be cribbing for you. president obama s decision to take action in libya uncovered another situation where democrats like dennis kucinich agree with some tea party republicans.
never served in the military, so he had to sit that out. while the people in the audience were being applauded, newt was probably still in shock from questions chris wallace asked him earlier that morning. you were leading the charge to bush bill clinton from office for lying about an affair, and yes, he lied in a court proceeding, in a deposition where he had sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but at the very same time you were leading that charge, you were having an affair. isn t that hypocrisy? obviously it is complex, and obviously i wasn t doing things to be proud of. i am going to ask you man to man. did you ever think to yourself i m living in a really glass house? yes. maybe i shouldn t be throwing stones. no, i thought to myself if i cannot do what i have to do as a
change by assisting the rebels and providing cover for them as they advance. i mean, we have to understand what s really going on, and what is mystifying to me is this. you call, i don t have any brief for gadhafi, but you call his government illegitimate. in 2003, he was involved in dealings with the imf, world bank, had a broad privatization scheme visited on libya which resulted in about 20% unemployment in rbz, which is one of the reasons you have arrested population. there s some contradictions that haven t been talked about. congressman, what was the alternative facing the president. i was going to say, the 2003 imf measure means little to someone having their house blown up and being shot by one of gadhafi s tie rant. i think the president did the right thing, secretary clinton did the right thing saying we will be involved but don t want
public leader, actually, i would have resigned. okay. so no, it wasn t hypocrisy. yes, i lived in a glass house. and yes, i should have been throwing stones. newt failed even fox news logic test on that one. and more than once, newt found it a little desperate. i don t know what you would have had me do. well, newt, how about stopping the affair? did that ever occur to you when you had your pants down in your glass house and you were trying to chase bill clinton for the same thing? that would have been my next question for newt. but i guess we know what he would have said. as you know, chris and i have a great marriage, two wonderful daughters, two wonderful grandchildren. now at 67 i am a grandfather. i have two wonderful