Posted on 12/09/2015 1:57:44 AM PST by Libloather
WASHINGTON - Many of President Obama's Democratic allies in Congress say they do not believe he is being aggressive enough in confronting the terrorist threat of the Islamic State after last week's attacks in California, undermining Americans' sense of safety, especially among voters who will decide the party's fate in elections next year.
The concerns began to surface last month, when senior administration officials went to Capitol Hill to urge Democrats to reject a bill to curb a Syrian refugee program and were rebuffed. That hostility grew with their increasingly uncomfortable efforts to defend Mr. Obama's strategies in the Middle East after the attacks in Paris and California.
And Mr. Obama's address to the nation Sunday - which several congressional Democrats said was an idea they pushed - left them wanting more.
"When you interrupt the nation with an urgent and unscheduled statement from the Oval Office, or the White House, there's I think an expectation that the address will contain a new approach or a new element," said Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee.
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Obama isn’t interested in destroying ISIS. The Democrats should stop pretending that he is.
So he wasn’t even going to make the speech probably but was “pushed” into it by other Dems perhaps. Man, this guy yeesh.
“Obama’s plan to destroy ISIS”
Broadcast his moronic speech’s to ISIS.
Let Russia, France and the rest of the world do the hard work, while he plays golf.
stop them?
ROFL
he is supplying them!
Obama is their biggest supporter!
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