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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
OK, Boehner is right. Let's see how far he's willing to push it. Is this just a partisan campaign move, or will he REALLY pull the plug?

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Good. We can just say that we agreed to enforce a no fly zone, as was the original UN plan and we can't participate in the rest of it anymore. I don't know why we didn't just investigate the situation, conclude that we didn't want to do it since the rebels have no plan and decline. Oh wait, I do know, OIL and POWER.

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Boehner himself has questioned the constitutionality of the resolution. “The President of the United States is, and should remain, the chief architect of America’s foreign policy and the commander-in-chief of our armed forces,” Boehner said in a 1999 press release, according to Politico’s Jonathan Allen, when Congress was debating U.S. involvement in the Balkans. “Invoking the constitutionally-suspect War Powers Act may halt our nation s snowballing involvement in the Kosovo quagmire. But it’s also likely to tie the hands of future Presidents.”

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White House spokesman Jay Carney said Boehner's views "stand in contrast to the views he expressed in 1999 when he called the War Powers Act 'constitutionally suspect' and warned Congress to 'resist the temptation to take any action that would do further damage to the institution of the presidency."

Boehner's spokesman, Brendan Buck, dismissed Carney's reference to a "decade-old statement."

"As speaker, it is Boehner's responsibility to see that the law is followed, whether or not he agrees with it," Buck said.

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