Un vote pour et un vote contre... On souffre le chaud et le froid. Il va sans dire que la Maison blanche est déçue.
"The House delivered a surprising split decision on Libya Friday: Voting against authorizing the use of American forces there and then, an hour later, refusing to limit funding for the mission.
In essence, the House decided that it will neither endorse nor totally reject American intervention in Libya.
It appears that a last-minute White House lobbying effort to stave off Democratic defections worked — at least on the spending-limitation bill. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked House Democrats to back their president in a closed-door meeting in the Capitol on Thursday, and National Security Adviser Tom Donilon summoned a small group of liberals to the Situation Room at 7 a.m. Friday for a classified briefing that may have influenced a handful of votes.
Still, the House rejection of a one-year authorization of the use of force in Libya earlier Friday represented the most serious congressional challenge to the president’s war-making authority in more than a decade. It was a symbolic vote, but one that was felt on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
“We are disappointed by that vote,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said between roll calls. “We think now is not the time to send the kind of mixed message that it sends when we are working with our allies to achieve the goals that we believe that are widely shared in Congress.”
And, he noted, the move won’t stop the U.S. involvement.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57711.html
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