{"id":9425,"date":"2011-05-19T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2011-05-19T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:58:05","slug":"happy-60th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/happy-60th-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 60th day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/267624\/1-2-3-4-we-dont-want-your-illegal-kinetic-military-action\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Geraghty<\/a> notes a special day arriving:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Happy 60-Day anniversary, <strike><font color=\"red\">War<\/font><\/strike> Kinetic Military Action in Libya! You\u2019re now\u2026 pretty much illegal, but almost all of Washington will avert their eyes and pretend you\u2019re legal. It\u2019s kind of like how all the big people there treat their nannies.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway are professors of law and political science at Yale, took to the pages of the <em>Washington Post<\/em> to point out that for a president who was elected by angry lefties chanting about an illegal war, it\u2019s pretty ironic that we\u2019re now fighting what is, pretty much, an illegal war: \u201cThis week, the War Powers Act confronts its moment of truth. Friday will mark the 60th day since President Obama told Congress of his Libyan campaign. According to the act, that declaration started a 60-day clock: If Obama fails to obtain congressional support for his decision within this time limit, he has only one option &mdash; end American involvement within the following 30 days.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Geraghty notes a special day arriving: Happy 60-Day anniversary, War Kinetic Military Action in Libya! You\u2019re now\u2026 pretty much illegal, but almost all of Washington will avert their eyes and pretend you\u2019re legal. It\u2019s kind of like how all the big people there treat their nannies. Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway are professors of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,5,53,13],"tags":[158,698,687],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-military","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-congress","tag-libya"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2s1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}