Speech Reax from the Right

Boehner [via spokesman Steel]: "The speech failed to provide Americans much clarity to our involvement in Libya. Nine days into this military intervention, Americans still have no answer to the fundamental question: What does success in Libya look like?"

McCain: "I think that the first part of his speech was excellent, and he laid out the reasons why it was important to intervene and what would have happened in Benghazi. ...  Then ... he made a very puzzling comment, and that was (regime change by force) would be a mistake. Gaddafi must have been comforted by that."

Palin: "He did not articulate really what our purpose was except some inconsistent humanitarian effort there. ... He did not make the case for this intervention."

Trump: "[Obama is ] a little bit afraid of Congress, frankly. He doesn't want to go in too strongly because they'll say that he broke his constitutional law."

Ra Paul: “In 2007, then-candidate Obama said that ‘The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation...’  Unfortunately, President Obama has failed to heed his own advice. He has ignored our constitution and engaged us in a military conflict without congressional debate and approval.”

Price: “Ultimately, President Obama’s speech tonight did not undo the concerns raised by his handling of America’s involvement in Libya. It did not provide a substantive plan for the future and in that it has not provided the type of clear, coherent leadership needed.”

Cornyn: “President Obama failed to explain why he unilaterally took our nation to war without bothering to make the case to the U.S. Congress. And now he’s splitting the difference—telling us Gaddafi must go, but refusing to do what it takes to remove him.”