{"id":9015,"date":"2011-03-24T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2011-03-24T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:56:07","slug":"senate-liberals-at-loggerheads-over-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9015\/senate-liberals-at-loggerheads-over-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Liberals at Loggerheads Over Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see liberal members of the Obama regime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2011\/03\/kerry_and_richa.html\" target=\"_blank\">getting in a dust-up<\/a> over whether the president&#8217;s Libya bombing is legal.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s combatants are Senator John Kerry (D-MA), chairman of the chamber&#8217;s Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) whose thinking on foreign affairs is usually in lock-step with Kerry&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Until, that is, President Obama forgot to ask Lugar&#8217;s permission before going to war.\u00a0 As one of then-Senator Obama&#8217;s earliest Republican admirers, Lugar takes pride in his status as elder adviser to a young president.\u00a0 Trouble is, Obama no longer needs Lugar for anything.<\/p>\n<p>And as Lugar is finding out, that includes setting aside procedural niceties like declaring war or getting congressional authorization for military action. (Far better to go the Lugar-approved route of U.N. permission slips.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Senator.\u00a0 He couldn&#8217;t have done it without you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see liberal members of the Obama regime getting in a dust-up over whether the president&#8217;s Libya bombing is legal. Today&#8217;s combatants are Senator John Kerry (D-MA), chairman of the chamber&#8217;s Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) whose thinking on foreign affairs is usually in lock-step with Kerry&#8217;s. Until, that is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,144,2513,216,599,2436,2399,750],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-constitution","tag-declaration-of-war","tag-foreign-policy","tag-john-kerry","tag-libya","tag-richard-lugar","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}