RIP War Powers Act

It seems to me that President Obama is going to get the Libyan operation past Congress without a whimper.

Lord, this strikes me as funny and I wonder where the hue and cry is? The president is acting without Congressional authorization … of any type … and few if any (other than the much derided Fox News)  of the pundits or elected leadership in the Congress seem to be making a major deal out of it.

I guess that is what it means when it is said that elections to make differences. My guess that if our previous administration had ignored at least attempting to follow at least some parts of the 1973 War Powers Act, he probably would have been impeached, or had even more people in the streets.

Well, we get what we deserve … or at least vote for … and it is go0d to remember that democracy only works until the majority figures out it can vote itself money from the common treasury.

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We got him!

Sunday, May 1, 2011, Osama Bin Laden died at the hands of a small group of American Navy SEALS.

Well Done!

It is not the end of the Global War on Islamo-fascistic Terrorists, nor even the end of the beginning, but it is a milestone.

To put it in perspective the World War II generation. This is not the equivalent of the death of Adolf Hitler, but more akin to the death of Isoroku Yamamoto in April 1943. The architect of the attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor and much of the very successful Japanese conquest of the Pacific was dead, was killed by a small group of Army Air Force aviators who flew hundreds of miles on a scrap of intelligence from the U.S. Navy.

It did not end the war in the Pacific, which went on bloodily  for nearly another 2 1/2 years, but it was a major blow to the Japanese and a major victory and morale boost for the Americans.

Such is it today.