{"id":3931,"date":"2011-04-07T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2011-04-07T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T07:00:31","slug":"the_constitutio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"The Constitution, President Obama and Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0411\/GOP_lawyer_circulates_Obama_impeachment_articles.html\">Ben Smith @ Politico:<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>&#8220;He&#8217;s been more bold than any other president,&#8221; said Fein, who said Obama has failed to secure congressional approval for his military action in a much more brazen way than previous administrations. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he can wipe out the war powers authorization, why can&#8217;t he wipe out Congress&#8217;s authority to spend?&#8221; asked Fein. &#8221; If we&#8217;re going to be a government of laws, and not descend into empire, this is Caesar crossing the Rubicon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fein said a number of Congressional offices have expressed interest in his proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They actually need to defend constitutional prerogatives,&#8221; said Fein. &#8220;There&#8217;s definitely been interest on the Hill. There&#8217;s at least two dozen who have been open to the idea that this is a serious constitutional crisis.&#8221;<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith @ Politico:: &#8220;He&#8217;s been more bold than any other president,&#8221; said Fein, who said Obama has failed to secure congressional approval for his military action in a much more brazen way than previous administrations. &#8220;If he can wipe out the war powers authorization, why can&#8217;t he wipe out Congress&#8217;s authority to spend?&#8221; asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}