James Fallows has a great post up concerning Libya-and how Obama has no one to blame but himself for his troubles with Congress:
This was a problem foreseeable from the very start* — more than three months ago, when we were told that this would be a campaign of “days, not weeks.” Obama has so often proven himself to be the master of the long game that it is genuinely puzzling that he has stuck with this approach, rather than roping in Congress back in the days when most Republicans were criticizing him for taking too long to intervene.
Usually when his administration suffers a reverse, I blame the vicious nihilism of the opposition, or assume he has chosen the least bad of the dire options available. In this case, I cannot understand why he made and persists in what looks like a foolish mistake. Not the intervention itself, though I was skeptical of it. Rather, the refusal to engage Congress, which now leads to a predictable backlash.
And now-what do we get for our trouble? Not a damn thing.