By Josh Richman
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 at 11:07 pm in Lynn Woolsey, Obama presidency, U.S. House.

“Contempt for the Constitution,” “flies in the face of common sense” and “an insult to the American people” is the kind of hot rhetoric Rep. Lynn Woolsey used to level at our immediate past President.

But there Woolsey, D-Petaluma, was firing those verbal bullets at President Barack Obama today, after argued he doesn’t need Congressional authorization under the War Powers Act for U.S. involvement in Libya because our efforts there fall short of full-blown hostilities.

Obama released the unclassified section of a report entitled “United States Activities in Libya,” providing his Administration’s answers to questions received from House members and Senators; a cover letter from the Defense and State departments to House Speaker John Boehener; and a letter from himself to Congress.

Here’s Woolsey’s full statement:

“The Obama Administration’s argument is one that shows contempt for the Constitution and for the executive’s co-equal branch of government, the United States Congress. To say that our aggressive bombing of Libya does not rise to the level of ‘hostilities’ flies in the face of common sense and is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. This act must not stand, because we can’t afford another full-blown war—the ones we’re already fighting are bankrupting us morally and fiscally. Let those who support the military campaign against Libya make their case, in an open debate culminating with a vote in the U.S. Congress. The American people deserve nothing less.”

Source: http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/15/lynn-woolsey-lets-loose-on-obamas-libya-stance/