Eviscerating the Constitution

United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted on ABC's Sunday morning policy wonk program that America's Libya action was not a "vital national interest" to America and that Libya posed no "imminent and actual" threat to the homeland. On the FOX Sunday Wallace show both US Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman abdicated their duties under the US Constitution by saying that the "Arab street" wanted American involvement in Libya. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that the United Nations had called for a "no-fly zone" over Libya and now NATO was implementing it. None of this addresses the necessity under America's Constitution of seeking United States Congressional approval before such an action is mounted, and none of this absolves Barack Hussein Obama from the impeachable offense that he has just wittingly or unwittingly committed. Obama took the nation into a war of choice without the consent of Congress. Now let us see if anyone in the US House of Representatives has the courage to hold him to account for it by drawing up Articles of Impeachment against him. I hope a bipartisan team perhaps led by Texas US Representative Ron Paul, a Republican, and Ohio Democrat US House member Dennis Kucinich, who have both already spoken out and said Obama's Libya intervention is impeachable, have the courage to prove that Barack Obama is not yet America's new emperor. On a different front about how the Obama administration trashes our Constitutional protections, according to the Drudge Report, Florida journalist Scott Powers was held captive in a closet during much of a Democratic fundraiser that Vice President Joe Biden was attending after Powers had been assigned as the "pool reporter" for the occasion. Detaining this reporter violated his civil rights and assaulted the freedom of the press, one of the fundamental freedoms assured under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. But if the politicians, press, and people do not squawk too much about an unconstitutional involvement in Libya; they probably will not carp much over the suspension of freedom denoted by the brief abduction of a single, relatively unknown, Florida reporter.