Bratz Ballet

The Libya nonsense has taken for a round of gold until the 5th but the current state of affairs is worth a run through for the fine political sausage made. Not by Jughead Rex, who's been as hamfisted as ever, but by folks that know what they're doing.

The first and best is the constant lay down on the War Powers Act and its supposed questionable Constitutionality. Flying about the pair of claims go that the War Powers Act doesn't apply and even if it did it's of questionable legality so it doesn't apply anyways; with the questions only coming from Nixon and other pouty men of stature.

This is our first and finest bit of slick in the teen girl clique game. Ya'see the WPA only states two things of interest here. That the President may only act unilaterally when necessity and circumstance doesn't provide time for the TOTUS to hop on his Blackberry and consult Congress on the affair in advance. The second that if he wants his war pony he may either ask in advance or provide justification within a reasonable window of time as to why he got all stabby without prior consent.

But thing is the WPA is a 'me too' law that simply cribs the Constitution itself on matter if you put aside the idea that it might be keen to find out why our first Black president has a hard-on for bombing Africans. The Constitution itself makes the same allowances directly and so our fun claim is in fact that the Constitution doesn't apply and even if it did the Constitution is probably unConstitutional so it doesn't apply anyways.

That, my friends, is a fine piece of politik. Of course the notification requirement may well be considered to properly be unConstitutional but it certainly can't be claimed that we lacked the time to get Congress in the loop before the Libyan army finished floating their armada of Jeep Cherokee's across the Atlantic for the sake of razing DC. And it's not like DC is one of the 50 states and so it wouldn't apply as a hostile action anyways.

Now I suppose that one could claim that Congress moves at such a glacial rate that there's no reasonable belief that our fine representatives would do their job in a prompt manner. But that doesn't wash at all. Nancy Pelosi's wound her reflexes so tight on a Botox bender that she could break the spine of large rodents by a giving a slow wink across the aisle to Boehner.

More fun than that is Jughead Rex making the statement in 2007 that the WPA does apply to such things and that the president must seek Congressional approval as required by the Constitution and dittoed by the WPA. Given his good status as a Constutional Scholar it's probably just as well to take him at his word on the matter. But you'll not see a great deal of mention on that subject as it not only means that he's impeached himself as a war criminal at home, but that he's engaged in the extrajudicial killings of a swarthy of African natives abroad. Otherwise known as premeditated mass-murder of an ethnic group. Which is also a fun bit of politk.

However, the real question for the administration was delivered by the Secretary of State, former We the President, Mr. Clintons jilt and paraphrased lightly as "Are you with us or are you with Q/Kh/G-adaffi.?" And who would be? If it weren't for his former antics on the international stage, borrowing airplanes by use of bombs, it's that he sleeps in a Yak skin tent. By preference. And here in the land of Axe body spray no man may be spared the phosorphous kiss if they dare smell of a Yak. So of course we should all side with the fun liberty infused rebels who are likewise of a kind eye and possessed of a keen wit.

Now it's merely an unfortunate trifle that we knew from the beginning that these lovable scoundrels were Al Qaeda. And that our plan going in was to nation build in Libya. Bringing Democracy at the point of a gun by deposing the Yakman for our own terrorists. The one's that we are currently at war with under the aegis and consultation of the Congress. The administrations plea is question with a demanded answer that we should kill for the very people that are killing our people at the same time. And that's another fine bit of politik.

But despite the C-in-C being a Constitutional scholar who states that what he's doing is unConstitutional only if the Constitution applied and wasn't unConstitutional and if the Constitution applied to fighting a war on behalf of the enemy we're demanded Constitutionally to fight by the people elected as representatives under the Constitution that doesn't matter -- and did you know you can get bonafide derriere paper with the Constitution on it? -- it all pales to the politik of today.

That being that Congress denied Obama the authority to continue but that the bastards didn't defund the mass murder he doesn't have the authority to continue with. Obviously our representatives are confused children that don't realize that by demanding that the POTUS cease and desist with the mass murder of Africans that they were, in fact, telling him to do so by not also telling him he couldn't spend money on the mass murder of Africans that he's not allowed to keep murdering. This story being repeated far and wide by the entrenched media companies as the gospel truth and there is in this a presumption that the fine people of America will blame Congress rather than our mass murdering monarch with a hatred of his homeland. And that too is fine politik.

Because it's been working brilliantly all day.

The first bill, from Hastings, sought to seek an ex post facto authorization of things. So that, in passage, his future killings were legal as a State policy and so that his past murders were thus legal as well. Which is a perfectly sound notion as ex post facto laws are unConstitutional and we're already aware that Nixon and other presidents up through Jughead Rex question the Constitutionality of the Constitution. This, natch, was voted down and we may now forget about the previous killings that never happened because the law was never passed that allowed them. And that is not fine politik. That is just how folks work when faced with discomforting things.

But a fair feint, to put a suitably calisthenic term on it, is the second bill that sought to defund the murders that haven't been done as they aren't allowed. That one too was voted down. But the bill didn't defund things whatsoever. It states that it defunds everything except for:

(1)search and rescue;
(2)intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance;
(3)aerial refueling; and
(4)operational planning.

Search and rescue in a warzone requires killing things with fire from helicopters and drones. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance require boots on the grounds killing things and -- in the drone era -- loitering about with a predator and dropping anti-tank missiles on things. Aerial refueling is a pretty sweet deal if we let Dassaults nuzzle the fuel muzzle. And we'd still be running the whole show.

Or, to put it otherwise, less F18's. More helicopters and drones. Lots a bombs and a bevy of clandestine boots that are on the ground now and later but don't exist anyways because it's a State secret.

Not only did the bill that Boehner support and not vote yay, nay, present, or teleprompter not defund things but it specifically authorized the very thing that Congress just denied authorizing. Such that the entire current narrative is that Congress didn't authorize the shindig it likewise didn't authorize the shindig. Which is fine because our Constitutional teleprompter assures us all that what he's doing isn't Constitutional if the Constitutional was Constitutional, which it isn't, and wouldn't matter if it was. All of which is entirely beside the point as being the lackey of the people that are killing our children never happened because neither bill passed anyways. That is the most beautiful distillation of unicorn tears out of the girls highschool locker that I have ever seen. That is politics at it's highest and finest.

And the sucker's are buying it.