Posted on 05/24/2014 7:59:34 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
White House officials have been holding private meetings this week aimed at soothing lawmakers’ concerns over the U.S. posture in Syria, the future of the American military presence in Afghanistan and defense spending. The meetings come as a frustrated White House seeks to push back at criticism of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.
But the White House outreach appeared to be having little effect on some lawmakers’ concerns.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, described Tuesday night’s White House meeting with chief of staff Denis McDonough and national security adviser Susan Rice as “one of the most bizarre I’ve attended.”
Another senator who attended the meeting said Obama’s advisers refused to provide lawmakers with answers about whether the president plans to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally concludes later this year or about the Pentagon’s efforts to find nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian school girls.
Unsatisfied, some of the lawmakers started to leave one by one before the meeting had finished. The senator and three congressional aides briefed on the meeting insisted on anonymity to discuss the private talks.
The meetings, which have been taking place both at the White House and on Capitol Hill, come as Obama prepares for a speech Wednesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he is expected to try to answer critics who say he has surrendered America’s global leadership and faltered on problems in the Middle East, Russia, China and beyond.
McDonough and Rice met at the White House on Monday night with about a dozen House Democrats. On Tuesday, officials invited 14 senators — three of them were Republicans — to the White House for a discussion on foreign policy over wine, beer, and a cheese and cracker platter...
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You nailed it.
I am concerned with our rapidly-increasing foreign debt, and I am concerned with American unemployment.
Those two are big considerations.
I see both our national parties, working in exactly the wrong direction on both of those very important issues.
Both parties. Both parties are sending US jobs overseas, and both parties are importing more all the time.
One or the other of our two national parties needs to be for American workers.
I want the GOP to stand up and rebuild our own country. I do not want it to be democrats who stand up for Americans.
GOP get with it.
Hire Americans.
Or we may have to replace you. The Tea Party would be an effective replacement, if they will support working Americans.
It would be simpler however, if the GOP itself, were to stop offshoring jobs.
We have been destroying our own country for an entire generation.
We need to build up America once again.
I would welcome to hear your thoughts. This is a very serious issue we are facing.
It is getting worse, every single day.
We need to change.
We need to change.
Yes it is. We are watching the US turn into a third world country. Depravity is becoming the new normal. The nuclear family is being deliberately undermined. The political class believe normal, white, middle class Americans to be a bigger threat than Islamic terrorism. The sky over our country grows very dark. How can the toxic trends be reversed? I have no idea. I know that the fecklessness and fatuousness displayed by those who call themselves our leaders in uniform and out reminds me of the fumbling, ineffectual, immoral, and corrupt fops running France in the 1780’s. Something really bad is coming for our country. The only questions are when and how bad.
okay so there will plenty of face time....
I can barely wait to see how much hes aged this week....
Oh my....an minute could seem like an hour in The Presence of The One....
Someone is calling the shots in the White House, and it isn't Baraq Obama.
Obama didn’t even attend the meeting!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The One will probably give Afghanistan to Iran, it's in their neighborhood.
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