I have to say not supporting your President 100% of the time is borderline treasonous. It almost makes our politics in the style of the British Parliamentarian, but we don't have that system. Thus, we have gridlock.
On Syria, the speaking out of both sides of the mouth by many GOP contenders illustrates that they really do hate Obama and don't care about governing the country in a responsible manner. To their credit, some traditional GOP legislators like McCain, Graham and Boehner sometimes try to govern responsibly as they are with Syria.
However, the words of many GOP show the want their cake and to eat it too, no matter the result for government. They also do not take responsibility for anything.
Jim InHofe, Oklahoma Senator, demanded 4 weeks ago that the Obama administration do something about the barbaric Assad regime. Now he says there is no money for the military to conduct anything in Syria and he cannot support anything. If there is no money for the military to conduct operations, I think it is time to raise some revenues. There is no greater need for the government funding than sufficient defense spending.
Paul Ryan, the last GOP Vice President candidate, who said let's do something about Syria in 2011, now says he cannot support the President because it is too late to do anything. Well, the use of poisonous gas is different and it is unacceptable and clearly the Assad regime fears the US military because they are dispersing the troops.
And Marco Rubio, proving he has no grasp of the complexities of Syria (as I outlined in my last post), stated the either the US should have "a comprehensive plan to remove Assad and establish a stable secular government" or "do nothing" except support our allies who border Syria. Well, that would take money for humanitarian refugee support and potentially dealing with an Al Qaeda governed portion of Syria and I don't see Rubio supporting any revenue increases for that.
I truly worry when I know more about a foreign country than our legislators. I think they spend too much time raising money for campaigns and voting to repeal ObamaCare.
It is, of course, the height of irony that Obama's lap dog John Kerry is the one charged with rallying the public to support bombing Syria. Kerry who famously was FOR the Iraq War before he was AGAINST it. Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth.....
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