Libya Resolution News Today

As soon as the arabs. the problem now is were not in the land of lousy options. were in the land of no options. without a u.n. resolution, without a military option, theres very little the united states or others could do to stop whats happening. >> why did susan rice get so emotional today. >> shes calling it despicable. theyre all professionals up there in new york. why is she getting so enraged. i think its been fabulous taking on the u.n. >> theres a humanitarian crisis. the fact china and r...

Argument they use is that they are concerned that given the libya resolution, they are concerned about military strikes. thats not what the resolution said. thats not what was at stake. that was my view, the excuse they were using. >> heres secretary clinton on the issue yesterday. >> what happened yesterday at the united nations was a travesty. those countries that refused to support the arab league plan, they are full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime. >> i get the sense the russ...

Strikes. and, you know, thats not what the resolution said. thats not what was at stake. that was in my view, the excuse they were using. but its not, you know, its in my view an excuse. >> heres secretary clinton using very strong language as well on this topic. this is yesterday. >> what happened yesterday at the united nations was a travesty. those countries that refused to support the arab league plan bear full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime in da damascus. >> i get the sens...

Project. but as soon as the arab spring came, he showed his true stripes. were not in the land of lousy options. were in the land of no options. without a resolution or military option, theres little the united states or others can do to stop whats happening. >> why did susan rice get so emotional today? i was watching her over the weekend. she was calling it despicable. why is she getting so enraged? i think its been fabulous. taking on the u.n. guys. she knows they are playing games up there. ...

Strikes. thats not what the resolution said. thats not what was at stake. that was my view, the excuse they were using. >> heres secretary clinton on the issue yesterday. >> what happened yesterday at the united nations was a travesty. those countries that refused to support the arab league plan, they are full responsibility for protecting the brutal regime. >> i get the sense the russians are still loyal to the old ties over there. is that because one of those cold war residue things? >> its go...

Theres supposedly meetings between the white house and senate and big game players later this beak. in erms the of a deal were getting a real date, not necessarily august 2nd, but july 22nd. why? theres a ten-day period needed for the congressional budget office to score any type of compromise as well as youre going to have to sell this compromise to the members. house republicans have been steadfast they dont want any tax increases to consider any type of compromise. speaker boehner needs some ...

Gives the president to consult congress about military action have come and gone. today, house speaker john boehner libya resolution passed by a vote of 268 to 145. it requires the president to answer within the next two weeks. some tough questions about the military ongoing air war over libya. and bars ground troops being introduce in the libya conflict, despite nato indications that may be needed. democratic congressman dennis kucinich introduced his own resolution which ultimately failed. it ...

President does not need congress blessing. the president did send is a letter to congressional leaders yesterday saying he supports libya resolution being drawn up by massachusetts democratic senator john kerry and arizona republican senator john mccain and others apparently voicing support for the mission. the president urged lawmakers to get behind that measure, saying, quote, it would demonstrate a unity of purpose among the political branches on this important national security matter. it ha...

Happened in afghanistan and iraq, americans and especially commentators are gun shy and going into this assuming things will go bad just as we went into previous wars assuming they would go good because of how well things went during "desert storm." obama could come out looking very good. by the way, there was also a price of doing nothing. if obama failed to act, and gadhafi slaughtered his people -- >> that gets us to the bigger conversation which is whatever libya resolution is, we have now r...

Organization. were going to have a lot more, including tim pawlentys new tv ad. in a week, the senate takes its first vote this afternoon on libya. its something nobody wants to talk about. after 15 weeks of bombing, theres no end to the stalemate. signs of friction within the nato coalition. how this vote goes, what happens today, what amendments get on there over the week? this could actually be the newsier topic of the week more so than the debt deadline, but were going to go to the deadlin...