Our Empty Suit Full of ISIS Excuses with a Pen and a Phone

By Elizabeth Nelson

How many times have we heard this Empiric Occupying empty seat blame the GOP for "not doing their job" or "standing in his way" and that he'll "use his pen and his phone to move the ball forward" to "get the job done."

Yet, when our National Security is on the line and it really matters, do you think the Lamestream media is telling the people that the Democrats and the Republicans have stopped fighting like children and have now come together to fight with and for us and are willing to give Obama free liberty to decimate ISIS, which is actually in line with what Obama himself said, after they beheaded a second American, "we will degrade and destroy ISIS..."

Congress says it wants to have a role in authorizing Obama’s ongoing war against ISIS. But the White House is using a series of maneuvers to make sure that never happens.

In recent days, leading lawmakers in both parties have been talking tough about forcing the Obama administration to devise and then reveal its strategy to “degrade and destroy” ISIS, as President Obama has promised. There have been public calls for hearings and votes on whether Congress should formally give Obama the authority to do what he’s already doing in Iraq and what he might soon want to do in Syria.

But behind the scenes, there’s no clear plan for Congress to exert its will or even make its wishes known. Lawmakers, staffers, and officials told The Daily Beast that the administration’s refusal to tell anyone its strategy and work with Congress on a bill to authorize military action means the task of passing such a bill is a Sisyphean effort likely to fail. The Hill may not even be able to muster a vote, they say.

“Members will certainly have discussions about the path forward on [ISIS] when they return next week, but how could Congress vote to authorize some action when the president hasn’t even made a compelling case to the American people about what our national objective and strategy should be?” a senior House GOP aide told The Daily Beast.

So, we see Obama's typical political promising and posturing. Speak of "outrage," "won't stand" and "swift justice," then do nothing, react to everything, blame everyone for what's going on around him, even when there's a support group ready to jump in and take action.  However, no he's sitting paralyzed with political fear.  Obama is terrified that he's going to "look like Bush [take your pick], or maybe even Clinton, and in going to war, this war will be Obama's war and no one else's.  

There’s widespread frustration in both chambers and both parties about President Obama’s admission that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to deal with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. But now the lack of strategy is actually protecting Obama from oversight because Congress can’t authorize or reject what it can’t understand.

In fact, the White House has been totally mum on how it plans to legally justify the air war in Iraq after the temporary authority granted to it in the War Powers Resolution expires. According to the 1973 law, the president must report to Congress when he uses U.S. military force in a hostile environment; Congress must then specifically authorize such action within 60 days or the president has to stop. The president can invoke a one-time, 30-day extension.  Continue Reading Daily Beast

Yet, here we are again, we continue to see "no justice for Sotloff," a man that was truly in the wrong place atthe wrong time and no "justice for Benghazi."   So we won't bother to feign shock that there's no strategy coming from our Muslim and terrorist sympathizing occupier-in-chief, and all we're getting is excuses, no hope and no change.