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They are asking the courts to do their heavy lifting for them. a classic case of assuming the pose of meaningful action while doing nothing. mieblgle, let me start with you. you hears this is way too much from one end and whoa, this isn't far must have from the other end. my anti-depressant on the situation and i said it yesterday. my read is that john boehner and this is the story of his term as speaker of the house. he knowses he's at the mercy of the tea party right. at the same time he has decent little bitle call instincts. he understands impeaching the president in the mid le of a midter...

If for this, the president of the united states needs to go to congress, this is changing our conception of executive power over the last 30 or 40 years, it's been settled by both parties that because of the nature of america's responsibilities in the war, the president does have the leeway to act in situations like this that are not really full scale war. >> so many examples, american presidents using military force without congressional authorization. you remember when ronald reagan was president, gadhafi was accused of bombing a disco tech in germany, killing american soldiers. he sent plan...

It's been settled by both parties that because of the nature of america's responsibilities in the war, the president does have the leeway to act in situations like this that are not really full scale war. >> so many examples, american presidents using military force without congressional authorization. you remember when ronald reagan was president, gadhafi was accused of bombing a disco tech in germany, killing american soldiers. he sent planes in to tripoli or whatever, killed a bunch of people, including relatives of gadhafi. >> president clinton bombed iraq for a few days. that was a classi...

President does have the leeway to act in situations like this that are not really full scale war. >> so many examples, american presidents using military force without congressional authorization. you remember when ronald reagan was president, gadhafi was accused of bombing a disco tech in germany, killing american soldiers. he sent planes in to tripoli or whatever, killed a bunch of people, including relatives of gadhafi. >> president clinton bombed iraq for a few days. that was a classic case, where at the margins it probably accomplished a little bit, and there's no congressional authorizat...

>> when this seems like such a no-brainer when we look at the problems plaguing this country, innovation, progress, education, why is this an issue? >> because i think it's a classic and i like this sort of this as a democrat. classic case of where should government be involved and not. a lot of republican colleagues don't think the government should help middle-class families put their kids through college. willing to put loans out there only if the government makes money or breaks even. we feel the government shouldn't do that, help middle-class families go to college. the money you get back...