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Support for Military Operations in Libya Drops to to 24%

Voters remain skeptical about U.S. military involvement in Libya, with a plurality still opposed to further military action in the north African country.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 24% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe the United States should continue its military action in Libya. Forty-four percent (44%) oppose further action there, while 32% are undecided.

A month ago, 26% favored continued U.S. military operations in Libya, while 42% were opposed.

Only 26% Favor Continued Military Action in Libya

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 26% of Likely U.S. Voters feel the United States should continue its military actions in Libya. Forty-two percent (42%) are opposed  and 32% are undecided.

But 59% agree the president should get the approval of Congress if he wants to continue U.S. military action in Libya. Twenty-one percent (21%) say congressional approval is not needed. Another 20% are not sure.

This marks a jump in support for congressional authorization from mid-March just after the president committed U.S. military forces to helping anti-government rebels in Libya. At that time, 47% said the president should have gotten congressional approval before ordering the military into action in Libya.  Thirty-four percent (34%) said the prior approval of Congress was not necessary, but 19% were undecided.

Most voters remain skeptical of how soon U.S. military involvement in Libya will end. Just 32% think it is at least somewhat likely that U.S. military operations in Libya will be over by the end of the year, with 10% who say it is Very Likely. Fifty-four percent (54%), however, think it is unlikely those operations will be done by the close of the year, including 14% who say it is Not At All Likely.

Just how irrelevant has congress become?

It is happening like Glenn Beck said it is. Congress is being made irrelevant by this tyrannical regime. It decides what is what and the regulatory czar Cass Sunstein regulates what should go through congress, and congress does nothing except allow it to happen.

It started with the EPA and Obama’s executive order granting them unlimited power, it moved on to nationalizing industries, notably the auto industry, oil and gas production, and now Obama claims he doesn’t need congressional approval for the Libya operation.

via ABC News:

In an effort to satisfy those arguing he needs to seek congressional authorization to continue US military activity in accordance with the War Powers Resolution, President Obama wrote a letter to congressional leaders Friday afternoon suggesting that the role is now so “limited” he does not need to seek congressional approval.

Typical tyrant. Obama just makes up the rules, and changes them at his discretion, and congress let’s him do it. Obama needs to be impeached, period. Then spend the rest of his life in a jail cell for what he has done, not only with this, but for every other “indiscretion” he’s been a party to since he took office.

I don’t understand why we aren’t impeaching him, let alone standing up to, and challenging him. Congress it seems, is more concerned with politics than country. They all need to go next year.

Look at Libya. It was supposed to be a couple of weeks, in and out. It’s open-ended now with no deadline, or end in sight. Quite frankly, I don’t give a damned if Gaddafi stays in power or not, nor am I interested in committing U.S. assets to a particular side in another country’s civil war. Enough is enough.

Weakness

It started with the order to close Gitmo. Then it was hostages taken by North Korea who later released them after humiliating us. Then Iran took hostages, and they still have some. Funny how the Propaganda Ministry fails to remind the public of this in their print daily’s and evening brainwashing sessions on TV.

It took three months to make a decision to send half the amount of troops to Afghanistan that commanders on the ground requested, which resulted in American casualties, their blood is on Obama’s hands. The Iranian freedom uprising, not a word from Obama. Egypt is next, and he steps up and encourages the anti-government demonstrations immediately without knowing the driving force, which is of course the Muslim Brotherhood. Blood thirsty Sharia terrorists, when that was pointed out, the administration downplays it and lies by saying the Brotherhood isn’t bad, they’ve “changed.” History will point out how wrong and naive this administration is.

Next up on the knuckleduster foreign policy list of blunders, Libya. Immediately the administration sides with the rebels, many of whom turn out to be Al Quiada. Gaddafi must go says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Barry O. himself. Here, listen to their own words:

Now we come to find out the administration is pulling us out of combat operations in Libya. Withdrawing. Completely opposite of the rhetoric spewed two weeks ago by the worse-than-Carter administration. Foreign Policy? What Foreign Policy? There isn’t any. It’s all over the map, changing with the wind. Weakness. The bark is worse than the bite.

Our adversaries from around the world are taking note of this chaotic weakness that makes the Carter administration look competent, and they are emboldened. We are going to have our hands full as long as this incompetent boob is president.

Obama Gets Lowest Approval, Reelect Score Ever, More Voters Oppose U.S. Involvement In Libya

American voters disapprove 48 – 42 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing and say 50 – 41 percent he does not deserve to be re-elected in 2012, both all-time lows, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

This compares to a 46 – 46 percent job approval rating and a 45 – 47 percent split on the President’s re-election in a March 3 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. In a hypothetical 2012 matchup, President Obama gets 36 percent of the vote to 37 percent for an unnamed Republican challenger.

Democrats approve 80 – 13 percent of the job Obama is doing, but disapproval is 81 – 9 percent among Republicans and 50 – 39 percent among independent voters….

Voters oppose 47 – 41 percent America’s involvement in Libya. In the survey concluded Monday evening as President Obama was addressing the nation about Libya, voters say 58 – 29 percent that he has not clearly stated U.S. goals for Libya. Read More

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100 million dollars a day

6 days, 600 million dollars according to ABC News’ George Stephanopoulis. Excuse me, don’t we have budget deficits in the trillions? Don’t we have a debt of 14.3 trillion dollars? Go ahead and try to cut a lousy, chump change-like 61 billion from the budget and they scream like little girls, yet think of nothing about spending 100 million dollars a day in a civil war that is none of our business in a country that posed no threat to us, all for oil.

Make no mistake about it. This is only about oil, nothing more. Most of the countries that comprise the coalition, are dependant on Libyan oil. Maybe Iraq was too, but I’m not convinced of that. I think it was more personal. Saddam Hussein tried to kill Bush’s dad, and you know what happens when you mess with somebody’s family. I would have done the same thing.

One week after an international military coalition intervened in Libya, the cost to U.S. taxpayers has reached at least $600 million, according figures provided by the Pentagon.

U.S. ships and submarines in the Mediterranean have unleashed at least 191 Tomahawk cruise missiles from their arsenals to the tune of $268.8 million, the Pentagon said.

U.S. warplanes have dropped 455 precision guided bombs, costing tens of thousands of dollars each.

A downed Air Force F-15E fighter jet will cost more than $60 million to replace.

And operation of the war craft, guzzling ever-expensive fuel to maintain their positions off the Libyan coast and in the skies above, could reach millions of dollars a week, experts say.

The news from Libya just keeps getting better and better

Days? No, that’s been changed to weeks. Check that, not weeks, but now months. Yup, this short little in and out of Libya has now turned in to months. I suspect that sometime in the future we will be discussing years.

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S.-led military action in Libya has bolstered rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, but the international operation could continue for months, the Obama administration says.

As if that’s not bad enough, did you know that the Obama administration is supporting and aiding Al Qaeda? Yeah, the very same Al Qaeda that wants all of us (including you leftists) dead. The very same Al Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11.

U.S.-backed anti-government forces in Libya are being led by al-Qaeda fighters according to an interview with a Libyan rebel figure in Il Sole 24 Ore, an Italian newspaper. So, after ten years of trying to “disarm and dismantle” al -Qaeda in Afghanistan, the U.S. might be facilitating its rise in Libya.

Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi admitted earlier today that he personally recruited 250 Libyans to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of these same fighters are, according to al-Hasidi, “today on the front lines in Adjabiya” fighting against Moammar Gaddafi’s forces….

Not only did al-Hasidi battle U.S troops in Iraq, he has also fought against “the foreign invasion” in Afghanistan.

Oh, and here’s the kicker. Gaddafi told us repeatedly that the rebels were linked to Al-Qaeda.

Ironically, Gaddafi has claimed for weeks that the rebel movement was linked to al-Qaeda, yet the international community saw these assertions as typical propagandist maneuvering by the Libyan dictator.

What a mess! So when I say that Obama is an amateur, completely incompetent and worse than Jimmy Carter. Ya think that just maybe I might be on to something?

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So what changed?

Let’s go back to candidate Obama for a minute.

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” – Barack Obama, 2007.

Like the title of this post says, so what changed? Oddly enough, even I am opposed to military involvement against Libya, and it has nothing to do with Obama. Without going in to detail I’ll just say, 3 wars with 3 muslim countries in the middle east. Do I really need to say any more?

Obama is losing his base in congress. Democrats have turned on him. Ed Markey, his reason is idiotic, but nobody ever accused that climate kook of being very intelligent. But he does use Obama’s very own words against him.

Michael Moore is actually tweeting about Obama returning his Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking of which, Soviet Communist Party Leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky wants Obama’s Peace Prize stripped. Then there’s “Dennis The Menace” who, oddly enough, I find myself agreeing with, for the very same reasons he does. Believe it or not, he’s making sense.

I need to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming.