Tag Archives: Robert Gates

by Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

When Barack Obama and John Boehner played golf this weekend, they played on the same team. How appropriate.

Barack Obama has violated the Constitution’s war-making power – reserved by Article I, Section 8, to Congress – from the moment he sent American troops into harm’s way without Congressional approval. He has been violating the War Powers Resolution since at least the 60th day of that … Read the Rest of this Post

Posted in Floyd Reports, News Reports, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

by Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.com


What’s even more absurd and futile than going to war to spread democracy and advance human rights? Intervention to stop regimes from “killing their own people.”

This is the sole rationale offered for Obama’s Libya excursion (Operation Odyssey Dawn even sounds like a Carnival Cruise ship) – to keep a tyrant from killing his own people.

British Prime Minister David Cameron declares: “Colonel Gaddafi has made this happen. We can not … Read the Rest of this Post

Posted in Floyd Reports, News Reports, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

by Ben Johnson

“The United States does not have a King’s army. President Obama’s unilateral choice to use U.S. military force in Libya is an affront to our Constitution.” – Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Maryland.

Barack Obama has gotten away with subjecting a wide swath of national life to unelected czars, bankrupting the country through unconstitutional spending, ignoring judge’s orders, and running roughshod over states rights. Now, the Czar-in-Chief has decided he wants the full … Read the Rest of this Post

Posted in Floyd Reports, News Reports, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments

by Ben Johnson

“September the 11th for them was a bad day; for us it was a change of attitude” — President George W. Bush, 2006.

Barack Obama has a unique response to terrorist attacks: America can “absorb” them. A new book shows the president exhibits blasé indifference to the prospect of American citizens suffering another 9/11 attack from Islamic terrorists but is highly concerned that he not accept the blame for … Read the Rest of this Post

Posted in Floyd Reports | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

Although he would not say a word about Iran’s human rights violations after Mahmoud Ahmadinejiad tortured protesters of the stolen presidential election last summer, Barack Obama brought the full weight of the presidential bully pulpit down against 50 people planning to burn the Koran this Saturday. Obama told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America this morning the would-be Koran-burners’ “stunt” is “completely contrary to our values as Americans…this country has been built on the notions … Read the Rest of this Post

Posted in Floyd Reports | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com

As Barack Obama surrounds himself with smiling teachers grateful he talked vacationing Congressmen into squeezing taxpayers for another multi-billion dollar bailout, Americans should envision another scene: the U.S. soldiers who are paying the price for Obama’s economic agenda.

Last night, on the eve of today’s vote, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a new set of “reforms” to the defense budget that “will ensure that our nation is…more fiscally responsible.” (Insert laugh track.) … Read the Rest of this Post

Posted in Floyd Reports | Tagged , , | 30 Comments