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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Senator Franken Opposes Obama on War Powers

Al Franken has turned out to be one of our best Senators, by far (nearly the treasure America's Senator, Bernie Sanders is):
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) told TPM this morning that if the President Obama wants to keep bombing Libya, he'll need to ask Congress' permission. "We're going to have to vote," Franken said shortly after his speech to the Netroots Nation crowd gathered here in his home state Saturday… Obama overruled Justice Department advice that continuing the war in Libya without congressional authority was illegal. Asked about the story, Franken said he rejected the president's reported reasoning behind overruling his own legal team. "I disagree with his take on it..." Congress must give Obama authorization to continue the war. "The War Powers Act should be enforced," Franken said.
Certainly Franken provides a more edifying headline from Netroots Nation than the spectacle of Miscommunications Director Dan Pfeiffer's awful weasel-words or that lame drama queen trying to go all Sinead on Obama's photograph as though secessionist Perry, crazy-eyed Bachmann, or loony limp noodle T-Paw would do us queers any favors any time soon.

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