Big Bi-partisan vote passes the House today
As per my blog of yesterday the Major News channels continued to utilize the majority of their time on the John Edwards indictment, Casey Anthony Trial and the state of our fiscal economy and the much lower than expected jobs creation. I do get a kick out of Elliott Spitzer reporting on the John Edwards indictment **. I’m sure you all will remember his sex scandal that caused him to leave his political office (and now he has his own CNN hour). I must say though that I enjoy his program that mostly deals with political issues and he doesn’t seem to be partisan. Maybe John Edwards will get his own show, unless he actually does go to jail;-O
As per my blog of yesterday the Major News channels continued to utilize the majority of their time on the John Edwards indictment, Casey Anthony Trial and the state of our fiscal economy and the much lower than expected jobs creation. I do get a kick out of Elliott Spitzer reporting on the John Edwards indictment **. I’m sure you all will remember his sex scandal that caused him to leave his political office (and now he has his own CNN hour). I must say though that I enjoy his program that mostly deals with political issues and he doesn’t seem to be partisan. Maybe John Edwards will get his own show, unless he actually does go to jail;-O
You may take all of the above “tongue in cheek” irrelevant, serious or ignore it entirely because the purpose of todays blog is to relate what I can of todays Congressional Session.
On Wednesday Dennis Kucinich, Libretarian from Ohio’s 10th Districk and who votes with the Democratic Congress Proposed a Resolution that the US remove all troops and other military actions from Libya, citing “President Barack Obama violated the 1973 War Powers Act by failing to obtain congressional approval for U.S. involvement in the Libya campaign within 60 days of U.S. forces beginning combat operations.”*
The vote failed because John Boehner, House Speaker (Ohio) wanted more time for the GOP to consider the proposed resolution.
He said “The House GOP Conference will hold a special meeting this after noon.” He also said “No decision will be made on what Libya proposals will come to the floor until after that session.”*
I watched today as speaker after speaker, both Democrats and Republicans agreed with the somewhat adjusted proposal prepared by the GOP. The vote passed by a great margin with as I recall 146 Nay to 276 Yea.
The final word on the bi-partisan resolution is that a letter will be sent to the President allowing for two weeks to justify his actions regarding our involvement in Libya. This statement was made by Boehner, adding that “further actions” will be taken should the President not agree to their request.
Now I have never been involved in political situations until after I retired and had the time to be informed: But this looks like a REALLY big deal. Could these charges possibly lead to an impeachment?
“1970, Rep. Gerald R. Ford "defined impeachable offenses as 'whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.” **
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