News Response

Does anyone in Washington actually represent the Tea Party? Some Republicans claim to represent the movement, like Rand Paul. Here is the transcript of Rand Paul’s response to Obama’s Libya speech:
http://www.paul.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=332173

Points to ponder (while drinking a cup of tea):

1) Rand focuses on the fact that we don’t know what type of government will replace the current one.  But really, that’s not the point.  It’s certainly irrelevant to a constitutional analysis of whether we should be in Libya.
2) Rand complains that all of congress is required to declare war.  Not exactly true…under the War Powers Resolution, the president has the authority under the constitution to engage us in a military conflict for a period of time without congressional approval (in 1973 Congress passed the War Powers Resolution, which requires the President to obtain either a declaration of war or a resolution authorizing the use of force from Congress within 60 days of initiating hostilities with a full disclosure of facts in the process)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Clause

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
3) Rand’s last point is good – that we don’t need to be spending this money, that we are operating this action on “a credit card” – Obama did not address how much this is costing us, nor did he give a good enough explanation as to why it’s cost effective (if it even is – which we all doubt)

Here are some additional links regarding responses to Obama’s Presidential Address about Libya

http://senatorteaparty.com/sarah-palin-donald-trump-other-2012ers-take-aim-at-obamas-libya-speech/

http://www.slate.com/id/2288879/