Obama Finally Invites Republican Leaders to the White House
After six months. Why?
Because he’s completely screwed on Afghanistan and he needs help on defense, a subject he and his Democrat colleagues clearly don’t understand.
The Hill reports:
“The meeting comes amid mounting casualties in the eight-year war and as President Barack Obama weighs a pending request for 40,000 more troops from the leading commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.”
“It is the first time in six months that House Republican leaders have been invited to the White House to discuss official business; Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) are both scheduled to attend.”
This comes on the heels of a report from the London Telegraph which suggests President Obama was “angry” at General McChrystal for his candid manner on the situation in Afghanistan:
“According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last week.”
“The next day he was summoned to an awkward 25-minute face-to-face meeting on board Air Force One on the tarmac in Copenhagen, where the president had arrived to tout Chicago’s unsuccessful Olympic bid.”
Meanwhile, Bill Kristol is rightly calling Obama’s position on Afghanistan “pathetic.” Freedom’s Lighthouse has the video.
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