Obama Needs To Call Horseshit on GOP's ISIS Fuckery

I'm getting so very tired of these people:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said in an interview on Sunday that President Obama hasn't demonstrated that he takes the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seriously.

"[Obama] has not demonstrated that he's taking ISIS seriously," Cruz said in an interview with ABC's "This Week."Cruz, who is considering a 2016 White House bid, criticized Obama for his response to ISIS terrorists.  What we ought to have is a directed, concerted, overwhelming campaign to take them out. The focus should be Iraq but the real focus should be taking out ISIS," Cruz said.

The GOP senator from Canada isn't the only Republican pulling this crap. Ten days ago, Washington DC's most famous married couple -- John McCain and Lindsey Graham -- published an op/ed titled "Stop Dithering, Confront ISIS." Even Mitt Romney is getting into the act. All of these assholes want the President to act immediately and not take any time to form a coalition to confront the ISIS threat.

Interestingly enough, this is exactly what ISIS wants as well.  The whole point of the be-headings of American journalists was to goad the U.S. into acting rashly and unilaterally.  The last thing ISIS wants is Obama to form a coalition to combat the threat because that would increase the chances that the terrorist group will be crushed.  And the Republicans certainly don't want ISIS to be defeated because such a result would be a victory for President Blackenstein.

Over the last few weeks, I've repeatedly thought that Obama should simply respond to the GOP attacks by asking Republicans to refrain from criticizing his administration during on ongoing foreign policy crisis.  Indeed, there used to be a time when these kinds of attacks were frowned upon in this country. Even Ronald Reagan, immediately after Jimmy Carter's attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages ended in disaster, refused to use that failure as part of his campaign in 1980, and instead stated that "this is the time for us as a nation and a people to stand united" and to pray.

But now I think that Obama should follow the advice of David Mamet and put in a big raise instead of merely calling the GOP bet.  Mamet was critical of John Kerry for not responding more forcefully to the Swift Boat attacks during the 2004 presidential campaign, and suggested that a better response to these attacks would have been to state that George W. Bush "was a deserter" for abandoning his National Guard post during the Vietnam War.  Mamet pointed out:

This would have been a raise. Here the initiative has been seized, and the opponent must now fume and bluster and scream unfair. In combat, in politics, in poker, there is no certainty; there is only likelihood, and the likelihood is that aggression will prevail.

Fucking-A.

I think that Obama should put the turd squarely in the GOP's pocket and attack the Republican Party for being on the same page as the Terrorizers and wanting the same thing as ISIS, namely, an American foreign policy failure. Time to put in a raise, Mr. President.