Impeach Obama

I don't know who wrote what I quote below, but I agree. And it seems to me that the proper remedy for an out of control executive is impeachment. As it stands the current administration laughs at the constitution and the law. We are living not under the rule of law but under an autocrat.
To me this is tragic and sad and confusing.
We need the law. We need due process. We need a government that obeys the law.



"As a lawyer and former professor of constitutional law, I agree completely with candidate Barack Obama's presidential campaign statement that "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." As a citizen who voted for Mr. Obama on the mistaken assumption that he meant what he said, I must recognize the wisdom of Lord Acton's adage that "power corrupts, ...See Moreand absolute power corrupts absolutelty." Contrary to the tenor of this article, no serious and honest legal scholar can read the Constitution -- as well as our Founding Fathers' statements concerning the relative powers of Congress and the President respectively to decide when to go to war and who shall be in charge of waging war -- and come to any conclusion that candidate Obama's statement was and is exactly right. Further, there is really no substantial argument that Congress did not have the constitutional authority to enact the War Powers Act of 1973, which by the way Congress did by overriding President Nixon's veto with the overwhelming votes of 2/3 of both houses of Congress. The War Powers Act in no way purports to "usurp" the Article II power of the President to serve as Commander-in Chief of our armed forces; it simply asserts the Article I power of Congress to "declare war" -- while expressly recognizing that in case of attacks on our nation or our armed forces, as Commander-in-Chief the President has the constitutional authority to respond without prior legislative authorization. As to Libya of course there has been neither legislative authorization nor an attack upon our nation or our armed forces. Consequently President Obama's non-defensive military attack against Libya (a sovereign nation whose government the President officially recognized and did business with until attacking it) was and is plainly not only an unconstitutional usurpation of the Article I powers of Congress, but also a flagrant violation of the War Powers Act. Section 5(b) of that Act specifically provides: "At any time that United States Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the Unitedi States . . . without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution." It is shameful that Congress has not acted and apparently will use its constitutional and statutory authority to stop a plainly unlawful and unconstitutional war in Libya."