Posted on 12/02/2014 2:21:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary.
The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at the helm of the Defense Department emblematic of a White House that puts politics above U.S. national security.
"It seems what the administration is looking for is a defense secretary who will follow the orders of a political White House rather than focus on defending the national security interests of this country," Cruz said. "At a time when the threats are this grave, we shouldn't see turnover at the Defense Department than one has at a typical Burger King."
Cruz said he did not know Ashton Carter, the former No. 2 man at the Pentagon who is expected to be Obama's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, but Cruz said he looks forward to learning more about Carter and his "good reputation."(continued)
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Is Burger King arming al Qaeda against the American
people and separating out those who refuse to shoot
Americans for the First Impostor by Fraud?
Does Burger King try to sell tickets to cage matches between its black and hispanic employees?
Even the old kook Ron Paul criticized Obama’s handling of the DoD.
If so, I need two.
Yumbobama?
It is a question of leadership. Obama has none what so ever.
Leadership can not come from the ground up it must come from the top down. When the President lacks any leadership ability it trickles down through everything else.
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