{"id":9614,"date":"2011-04-05T14:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9614"},"modified":"2011-04-05T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T22:29:19","slug":"10-gop-senators-vote-to-oppose-libya-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/10-gop-senators-vote-to-oppose-libya-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"10 GOP Senators Vote to Oppose Libya Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s resolution opposing President Obama&#8217;s use of force in Libya gained the support of 10 Republican senators &#8212; and not a single Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution was the same as a quote from President Obama when he was a Senator and presidential candidate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The resolution was defeated by a motion to table.  <a href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&#038;session=1&#038;vote=00050\">The vote was 90-10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senators voting to oppose US intervention in Libya were:<br \/>\nCollins (R-ME), DeMint (R-SC), Ensign (R-NV), Johnson (R-WI), Lee (R-UT), Moran (R-KS), Paul (R-KY), Sessions (R-AL), Sowe (R-ME), Toomey (R-PA)<\/p>\n<p>Where are the antiwar Democrats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rand Paul&#8217;s resolution opposing President Obama&#8217;s use of force in Libya gained the support of 10 Republican senators &#8212; and not a single Democrat. The resolution was the same as a quote from President Obama when he was a Senator and presidential candidate: \u201cThe president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9615,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions\/9615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}