Posted on 12/31/2016 5:11:05 AM PST by SkyPilot
Scathing criticism of President Obama’s decision to expel 35 Russian diplomats is pouring in, with the perhaps curious exception of the leaders of the Republican establishment.
A senior congressional staff member told WND, “What’s amazing to me is how the Obama administration is pursuing a scorched earth policy and attempting to destroy our international relationships across the spectrum from Russia to Israel on their way out the door.”
The aide noted the U.K. and Australia “are openly at odds with them.”
“It’s a mess – and what’s worse, it’s an unnecessary one,” the top staffer concluded.
Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., said Obama “seems intent on setting the world on fire the month before he leaves office.”
“First he betrays our ally Israel, and is now taking retaliatory action against Russia all within a week,” the congressman continued.
“And he’s doing this without any consultation with Congress, that has yet to see a promised report providing proof that Russia interfered in our election. So, why now?”
“Memo to the president: You lost,” editorialized the New York Post.
“In his waning days in the White House,” the paper continued, “President Obama is desperately trying to make his policies as permanent as possible by tying the hands of his successor,” by presenting President-elect Donald Trump “with a foreign-policy crisis immediately upon taking office.”
Even the left-leaning New York Times conceded Obama’s move “appeared intended to box in President-elect Trump, who will now have to decide whether to lift the sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies when he takes office next month.”
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Putin is not powerless in this situation and Barry really should not stoke the fires too much or the bear will get mighty riled up. The Kremlin has ‘ways’ of dealing with a rogue - even if that rogue only has 22 days to go in his position.
I would not put it past Putin to have set something in motion already that will follow Barry past his used up by date.
He might want to stay away from guys carrying umbrellas, just sayin’.
One thing obvious from that photo of Barry with Putin (and with Netanyahu) is that there is absolutely no love between them . . . and hate is probably too tame of a word.
This is what happens we you allow an ineligible usurper, non-natural born citizen, into the office of the President.
The founders tried to prevent the misery of the last eight years by putting the natural born citizen clause in the Constitution, but the GOP had so many ineligibles that they wanted to run they would not stop him.
Cruz, Jindal, Haley, Rubio and George P. Bush are not natural born citizens and are the reason the GOP went along with the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
Obama is “doing this without any consultation with Congress, that has yet to see a promised report providing proof that Russia interfered in our election.”
Congress has not been shown the documents supposedly proving that Russia interfered in our election.
If Congress doesn’t have this, then why is everyone making the assumption that the allegations are true?
“If the President oversteps his or her bounds of power, the people or Congress have a right to petition the Supreme Court to make a ruling on the Executive Order in question.”.....
Not sure what law this falls under but certainly odumbo has abused this many, many times. Problem is, Congress has failed to call him on it. Hence the devastation he has spread.
This GOP “leadership” is fully on board with boxing Trump in, and continued near-war with Russia.
All of them are on record supporting FURTHER expansion of NATO to Ukraine, Georgia and potentially even Belarus. They want Russia fully encircled and fully contained. They want to deny history and deny a world power its sphere of influence.
That is precisely the course the west took with Germany between the two world wars. And the outcome is likely to be the same as well...conflagration.
What in the world could be their motive?
Vlad looks poised to make perfect use of any one number of lighting quick takedown moves that would leave Barky in a world of hurt. And Vlad knows them and can preform them very well.
Obama always looks happiest in this picture, and when he’s out of the country brushing elbows with global elitists.
Vlad's feelings toward Obozo - I'd put it closer to the feeling a beachcomber would have after spying some ocean slime.
Here’s a great article by Daniel Greenfield.
The Obama Era is Over
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/264773/obama-era-over-daniel-greenfield
“Obama once thought that he belonged to the ages. Now he belongs in the rubbish bin.”
Can’t put it much more bluntly than that.
Grifters never change. I always screened the HELL out of my tenants. Of course my properties were in inner city Rochester NY, a totally militantly pro “low income” tenant city. The best I could hope for was a tenant without a felony record.
Mine was in a neighborhood of Boston that was “Changing”. This made it very difficult to screen tenants and not be accused of “discrimination”.
I always thought it was unfair because I had to live in the same house with people whom I thought could be “undesirable”.
Thank you...
. . . or that feeling you get when walking barefoot in an open field and step in something that makes a decidedly “squishy” sound.
The place I’m hoping we do well in 2 years is the Senate. The RATs have 25 up for re-election ( including the two “indies” Anus King and Bern). Unfortunately in the eight Republicans there are some real turds that should be replaced. In fact nearly all of them: Hatch, Corker, Heller & Flake (the two AH Mormons), and Scruze. Unfortunately, they will all be returned to office if they run. If we could pick up ten seats net, Trump could have a monumental last two years of his first term. That is, if the GOP behaves, but that is no sure thing with those turds.
Wish I’d written it.
It is about as perfect a description as you’ll see.
Greenfield nailed it to the wall.
I said Africans. Not black folk born in the USA.
and btw, the reports said that 88% of blacks voted for Hillary. I doubt it was even that high, and is in part why she lost those 3 key states.
I wrote an article about that.
Vandalism and sabotage.
It is called a scorched earth policy & I predicted it a couple of years ago.
Obama is leaving no room for argument about who & what he is with this behavior.
Obama’s been trying to start a war with Russia. Fortunately, Putin sees past it and won’t give Obama the satisfaction (or the reason to refuse to leave our White House).
Should be interesting to see how Obama revises his plans because Putin won’t cooperate...
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