Posted on 08/19/2021 12:46:49 PM PDT by Signalman
While addressing the American people on Monday, President Joe Biden said the “buck stops with me” with regard to the Taliban’s alarming takeover of Afghanistan amid the U.S. military’s withdrawal. Then he went on spreading blame to everyone but himself, including former President Donald Trump.
But Biden’s blame-game tactic appears to have failed, even among members of his own party.
Democratic lawmakers this week turned on the president over his botched handling of the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and are demanding answers from his administration, the Hill reported.
What are they saying? One Democratic member of Congress, who remained anonymous in order to speak candidly, told the outlet, “I am bewildered and frustrated and, privately talking to a lot of House Democrats, they feel the same thing.”
“The scenes are just brutal and there is no excuse for just how badly State or the Defense Department or both completely bungled the evacuations and getting folks out,” the lawmaker fumed. “Someone was really asleep at the switch.”
“I do want to know who was responsible. Where was the ball dropped? Because that person needs to be held accountable,” the lawmaker added. “At least one person, or a group of people, screwed up so bad that it’s fireable.”
The Hill reported that a similar sentiment is shared by several in the Democratic caucus, with many desiring to see people within the administration held responsible.
“It is imperative that the administration provide the American people and Congress transparency about its Afghanistan strategy,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.
Meeks announced on Tuesday that his committee would soon be holding hearings on the Afghanistan debacle, during which Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will be called to testify.
Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee agreed. The committee, led by Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), vowed this week to investigate the administration’s withdrawal for “policy execution and intelligence failures.”
In a blistering statement, Menendez said that “Congress was told repeatedly that the Afghan Defense and Security Forces were up to the task, that it had the troops, equipment and willingness to fight. To see this army dissolve so quickly after billions of dollars in U.S. support is astounding. The American and Afghan people clearly have not been told the truth.”
What else? Ahead of Biden’s speech, Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) tweeted: “There’s no way to hide it. The situation in Afghanistan is another shame on this admin. Withdrawal was never going to be easy but it didn’t need to come to this. The US must do everything in its power to help our partners & allies to safety & protect our national security.”
According to the Hill, several other Democratic members were just as severe:
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) has described the situation as a “disaster” that was “avoidable.” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said he was “disappointed that the Biden administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid U.S. withdrawal.”
Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) called what was happening a “catastrophe.” Writing in Foreign Policy, Langevin, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, complained that “this negligence was par for the course for the last administration. I am disappointed to see it now.”
Chaotic scenes showing Afghan residents dangling from departing U.S. planes in an attempt to flee the country have shocked the world in recent days. Some fell hundreds of feet to their deaths. Others may have died while clinging to a plane’s landing gear. Afghan women, anticipating harsh treatment under the new regime, have been left to despair over their new reality.
Thousands of U.S. troops were rushed back to the Kabul airport in Afghanistan to ensure that scores of American citizens and Afghan translators could be evacuated.
It’s the result of Taliban forces sweeping Afghanistan with stunning speed and wresting control over the country, an outcome Biden called “highly unlikely” only days ago.
The fiasco is perhaps the administration’s greatest setback yet. One that, for now, appears to have reset the political landscape.
You’re probably right in part, but don’t forget what these dolts managed to pull off in the 2020 election, and they’re not being led by the senile idiot; he’s merely a puppet.
Most Democrats hate Americans as much as Joe Biden. They are afraid their reverence for BLM and Antifa, and anti white rhetoric may harm them.
It is stunning Joe Biden and his Obama retreads plus CIA, Intelligence Agencies, State Dept. and U.S. Military planned to turn over weapons, tanks, planes, drones and military bases, airports and the embassy in Kabul to the Taliban, Clients of Pakistan, Iran and China. Biden planned to abandon 15,000 American citizens to the mercy of the Taliban. He refuses to rescue them.
The optics are horrible and Democrats are scared blowback will harm them and remove them from power.
15,000 Americans remaining? If they couldn’t figure what was up with all the troops leaving those medics, missionaries, teachers and reps of various companies are no wiser than that stupid girl who got mowed over by a bulldozer. I’m certain many of the Afghanis they were working with knew what was up and warned them. Now 3,000 fresh troops have to find them while the Taliban savages are running amok celebrating their victory by killing Christians, stealing way underage girls for “wives” and raping everyone.
“I do want to know who was responsible. Where was the ball dropped? Because that person needs to be held accountable,” the lawmaker added. “At least one person, or a group of people, screwed up so bad that it’s fireable.”
Except that Harris will do it on her knees ...
I was watching TMZ tonight with Harvey Levin who is a big time lib. He turned on Biden as did several of the other hosts but there were some other libs he employs that are seen that vehemently supported Biden and did not care about what was going on. They sounded like Biden when he said that was 4-5 days ago....
Except that Harris will do it on her knees ...>>>>>>>>>>>>
In that case she is Mitches Bi*ch. Thats how she gets “a lot done.” RINOfellatio.
If you wanted to ruin the USA, what would you have done differently than what Biden has done to date?>>>>>>>>>>>
Its all being done on purpose.
America is a White Supremacist colonial country that must be destroyed.
Biden and Harris do what they are told by Obama and Jarrett.
Joe has already handed the Middle East over to Russia and China. And now Joe is in theprocess of handing the Western Pacific and our allies ( Japan, South Korea, Taiwan)over to China.
After The Biden sacrificial lamb destroys America, destroys our military, destroys our colonial allies then what?
The Marxists of the US Dem party will “re-imagine” America and ram it down our throats.
Thats the plan Stan!
All of it is being done on purpose.Every bit of it planned.And if cannon fodder and whipping boys and girls are needed, the Dems will produce and sacrifice them.They are already lining up.
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