Following President Obama’s address Sunday night to calm a nervous nation in the aftermath of San Bernardino, Chattanooga and Fort Hood terror attacks, the airwaves and news release lines were filled with dismissals from Republican lawmakers and pundits.
Unfortunately ’tis the season of political diversion as our GOP primary candidates seek to add to jitters rather than actually take their seats in Congress to debate and vote on a U.S.-ISIS-Middle East war strategy – something the president has asked them to do over and over for more than a year now.
Make no mistake, the GOP doesn’t want to take any responsibility with the war on terrorism or in the Middle East. They just want to complain. Loudly and often.
And they do – screeching that, woe is us, things are getting worse and we don’t know what the strategy is and .
Well, since when is Congress not usually part of a war strategy? Since this Congress doesn’t want to be, that’s when.