Censure

Congress is fully within its rights to censure President Obama for failing to authorize continued operations in Libya. I wouldn't be the least bit unhappy to see that happen, disliking as I do the Imperial Presidency even if that hasn't been my first priority among the catastrophically many catastrophe plates we have spinning on poles at the moment. I do think it is not unreasonable to suspect that Obama the Constitutional scholar might be properly chastened by such a development -- as no doubt that premature Nobel likely made him feel warm and fuzzy back in the day -- which is all to the good... And I think neither is it unreasonable to suspect that Obama's ambivalent base and the dirt-dumb flibbertigibbet "Independents" might be moved by the spectacle of Censure to contemplate Congressional hypocrisies and shenanigan stunts in ways that would bolster Obama's re-election still more, which is also all to the good, all things considered. I expect a back-door resolution of unasked for support for the Libya mission will be forthcoming in any case in some form or other. I for one loudly disapproved of going into Libya on my shitty blog in the first place, you may recall, but whatevs.