The Imperial Presidency.

Libya: Barack Obama 'overruled top legal advice'

What Obama has shown here is that he's not quite the communicator he was made out to be. If he were he would have been ready to speak to Congress and convince them Libya is a worthwhile endeavor. It shouldn't have been all that hard since Khadaffi has few friends in the US, well except for those anti American leftists who support the dictator (Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Louis Farrakhan and other Arabists.).