Aaron Worthing at Patterico's Pontifications ("Harangues that Just Make Sense") reiterates for those just tuning in.
Money quote(s):
"(T)his war was illegal from day one. Follow that link if you want to read my analysis of it. But the short version is this. Under the War Powers Act, the president does not have the ability to start a war without congressional consent. Period. The sixty-day provision only applies to when we are attacked. And if you think that this law is unconstitutional, then that doesn’t make it better—it makes it worse. His power under the Constitution is less than under the War Powers Act."
Congress is paying attention now, and getting a little bit persnickity at this blatant (it just doesn't do to rub Congress' nose in something this baldly) usurpation of Constitutionally-assigned (and Congressionally-delegated, but only up-to-a-point!) powers. And, in its glacial, ponderous way, is signalling that it'll have to get around to doing something about it if some political figleaf isn't provided by the president.
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