{"id":6032,"date":"2011-05-21T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2011-05-21T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T13:15:06","slug":"obama-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/obama-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Don&#039;t Need No Steenkin&#039; Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The silence of the left, while cowardly, is nonetheless refreshing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2011\/05\/white-house-on-war-powers-deadline-limited-us-role-in-libya-means-no-need-to-get-congressional-autho.html\">White House on War Powers Deadline: &#8216;Limited&#8217; US Role in Libya Means No Need to Get Congressional Authorization &#8211; Political Punch<\/a>. \u00a0via Drudge<\/p>\n<p>This is an awfully convenient way of looking at things. \u00a0It does not happen to be correct. \u00a0The reason that only Congress can declare war is to make sure that the American people run foreign policy. \u00a0The Executive branch is there to <em>execute<\/em> the will of the American people as expressed in the laws passed by Congress. \u00a0There is no requirement for the words &#8220;We Declare War&#8221;, but Congress must pass a resolution authorizing these actions.<\/p>\n<p>But ah, \u00a0do you hear that shrieking? \u00a0Neither do I.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6032\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6032\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The silence of the left, while cowardly, is nonetheless refreshing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2011\/05\/white-house-on-war-powers-deadline-limited-us-role-in-libya-means-no-need-to-get-congressional-autho.html\">White House on War Powers Deadline: &#8216;Limited&#8217; US Role in Libya Means No Need to Get Congressional Authorization &#8211; Political Punch<\/a>. \u00a0via Drudge<\/p>\n<p>This is an awfully convenient way of looking at things. \u00a0It does not happen to be correct. \u00a0The reason that only Congress can declare war is to make sure that the American people run foreign policy. \u00a0The Executive branch is there to <em>execute<\/em> the will of the American people as expressed in the laws passed by Congress. \u00a0There is no requirement for the words &#8220;We Declare War&#8221;, but Congress must pass a resolution authorizing these actions.<\/p>\n<p>But ah, \u00a0do you hear that shrieking? \u00a0Neither do I.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6032\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/obama-dont-need-no-steenkin-badges\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}