Dare the word be uttered?

I was off today, and since yesterday was spent removing the 12+ inches of snow from my driveway and walkways, catching up on laundry and chores, and running the kids all over creation... it feels like my only day off.

So, like any good couch potato, I spent it being as lazy as possible. Watching some TV, cruising the Internet, eating like food was going out of style... you know the routine. But while I was doing one of my few chores today (fetching the 16 year old back from karate), I got to thinking about the problems we are facing in Libya.

Qaddafi is still in power, the rebels have been beaten back from almost every stong point they ever held, and the NATO air strikes have hurt the regime, but not reduced its ability to terrorize and murder civilians. All this has happened since Obama vowed to remove Qaddafi from power.

Obama has committed no fewer than seven surface vessels, three submarines (including the USS Scranton and the USS Providence), the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (2,200 Marines and their combat equipment), and more than 40 combat and combat support aircraft to the international effort now called "Operation Odyssey Dawn". Our servicemen have seen 5 days of combat service off the coast of Libya so far, and while the US isn't the sole nation with military men and hardware invested... we are by far the largest contingent.

What Obama hasn't done is ask Congress for approval for this whole thing. There hasn't been one request from the White House for even a gallon of aviation fuel or a lump of coal to help see this "coalition" effort to its inevitable end. Not even a "please" for one dollar of funding.

Now, I'm not the Constitutional scholar that Obama is... but if my poor memory serves, I think the President is expressly forbidden the ability to commit US military forces to combat actions that aren't directed against grave and imminent threats to US security. That enumerated power is given to Congress alone. Furthermore, wasn't it then-Senator Obama that felt (very strongly) that then-President Bush had superseded his authority by going "further than Congress had allowed" in Iraq? If Bush broke the law... surely, then Obama has as well, right? Bush had Congressional approval, while Obama hasn't even bothered to address Congress directly. They had to learn it through the Press Room just like the rest of America.

Am I wrong here? Has Obama made the "mother of all mistakes"? Doesn't this constitute a real instance of ignoring established and understood Constitutional law? What can he possibly say in his defense? He forgot? He thought they were behind him 100%? He was going to get to it as soon as he could? He can't even claim that American lives were in danger... the only Americans at risk in Libya are the servicemen he put there!!! He has expressed even LESS of a plan than Bush and Co. did in Iraq (and that is saying something, right there), and to the best of my knowledge, no one seems to know what our goals are in this effort. Are we there to remove Qaddafi? Are we there to ensure that the rebels remove Qaddafi? Are we there to protect Libyan civilians? Have the crimes against Libya's people finally become too numerous to ignore?

Could we possibly see the word "impeachment" in the future? If this whole fiasco is indeed un-Constitutional... could he be impeached? Or, at least, censured by Congress?