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By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyPresident Obama is getting blowback from both sides of the aisle for taking military action in Libya without first formally consulting Congress. Debate in Washington heated up even before reports Tuesday that a U.S. warplane, patrolling Libyan air space, had crashed. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), a conservative member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Obama's "unilateral choice" to join a U.N.-backed coalition establishing a no-fly zone "is an affront to our Constitution," The Hill newspaper reported. The United States, Bartlett said, "does not have a king's army." Meanwhile, a CBS ...
Four Mysteries That Will Shape the Fate of Centrist Democratic Senators in 2012
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAnd then there were five. Two centrist Democratic senators from conservative or moderate states, Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Jim Webb of Virginia, have announced they will retire rather than run for reelection next year. That leaves Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Bill Nelson of Florida, Jon Tester of Montana, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska (who just hired a campaign manager and looks ready to run). Are they doomed, along with their party's fragile 53-47 hold on the Senate? Sometimes you really can gauge future elections by what happened in the last go-round. The ...
Sen. Jim Webb Secures Release of American Imprisoned in Myanmar
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIt's been a lucky couple of weeks for Americans held captive overseas. Two weeks after Bill Clinton secured the release of a pair of reporters from North Korea, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) has succeeded in getting a prisoner freed from Myanmar. As Ria Misra reported Friday, Webb stopped in Yangon as part of a two-week tour of Southeast Asia, and became the highest-ranking American official to meet with the head of Myanmar's junta, Than Shwe. Saturday the ruling generals agreed to hand over John Yettaw from Missouri, who had been sentenced to seven years of hard labor for swimming uninvited to ...
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