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Before. and i want to reiterate that i do not mean this in a personal way. i do not mean to say that john boehner is a bad person. i have no idea what kind of person he is. my sense is that he's probably nice. i for example, tend to like people who cry in public. i thinking about unabashedly emotive can be a sign of good character or at least an interesting person. but honestly, i have no real sense of john boehner as a man. john boehner as house speaker, however, i do have a sense of. and i think that there is a good chance that he is not very good at his job. there were signs of this early o...

Republican tim pawlenty is running for his party's presidential nomination. >> my name is tim pawlenty. i'm running for president of the united states. >> tim pawlenty is running for president in part by standing firm and opposing the stimulus. at least on television he says he is opposing the stimulus. >> the stimulus bill was outsourced by this president to the united states congress. it came back in an incoherent fashion. we could have gotten much more bang for the buck for much less money. >> do you think it worked? >> as measured by the administration's own goals and objectives, no. >> do...

War powers act says that the president has to seek authorization from congress after 60 days. that was on friday. i believe that you've said that you don't expect a vote in the senate on that until sometime after june 5th. >> he sent a letter to us, the president, indicating the war powers act was in existence and what he thought of it and what he thought the parameters of that would be. i've had conversations with the chairman of the foreign relations committee and john mccain. they've agreed on what they think should be done and now i'm working out some time when we get back from the memoria...

It also says that if a president does start the war powers resolution also says if a president does start a u.s. military operation without a prior okay from congress, congress has to give authorization for that operation within 60 days. and if they don't, then that operation ends. that military operation must cease so says the war powers resolution which is technically the law even though presidents really don't follow it. and congress doesn't make too much of a stink about it anymore either. we just hit the 60-day time limit for u.s. involvement in the nato operation in libya. we hit that ti...

Need to have one. >> do you think that the overall concept of the war powers act, resolution, is obsolete? do presidents in effect have the ability to wage war without deep consultation with congress? has that eroded over time? >> the answer is yes but times have changed also. i've never been a great big fan of the war powers act because i think it's very, very difficult to understand. so i think in the solemnity of some of the things we do here, when we're talking about men and women being sent into battle, it is pretty solemn and we have to have another discussion about can we improve the wa...