Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert: 'Barney Fife is in charge'

Daily Mail ^ | August 29, 2014 | David Martosko, Us Political Editor for MailOnline

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Lawmakers are fuming over President Barack Obama's admission on Thursday that his White House lacks a strategy for dealing with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Syria, with one congressman comparing his performance to the bumbling sheriff's deputy Barney Fife from 'The Andy Griffith Show.'

And as House and Senate members piled on with sharp criticism, a former senior aide to a retired defense secretary told MailOnline that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are 'seeing red' and 'spitting nails' following Obama's candid admission.

'They're losing confidence in their mission,' said the long-time Pentagon insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'When the president doesn't know what direction to point people in, all his advisers can do is guess at what he wants. That's not good.'

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert told Fox News.on Thursday that Obama articulated 'a pitiful foreign policy, and Barney Fife is in charge,'

'I don't know where he's getting his information,' said Gohmert. 'Maybe it's CIA Director [John] Brennan who said earlier this year that "No, these guys don't want a caliphate".'

'He must have his head buried in a hole somewhere on the first green.'

As Washington scratched its collective head, the president headed on the road Friday for a political fundraising trip.

'I don't want to put the cart before the horse,' Obama had said Thursday, referring to the thorny problem of whether to attack ISIS inside Syria's borders. 'We don't have a strategy yet.'

[Olog-hai]

Barney Fife would be more competent.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[RatRipper]

Yep . . . and at least Barney Fife would have had noble intentions. . . .

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

If the threat were serious enough, even Barney Fife would ask Sheriff Andy for his bullett.

[skinkinthegrass]

..and armed w/ the one bullet.

[Grampa Dave]

"Lawmakers are fuming over President Barack Obama's admission on Thursday that his White House lacks a strategy for dealing with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Syria, with one congressman comparing his performance to the bumbling sheriff's deputy Barney Fife from 'The Andy Griffith Show.' And as House and Senate members piled on with sharp criticism, a former senior aide to a retired defense secretary told MailOnline that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are 'seeing red' and 'spitting nails' following Obama's candid admission. 'They're losing confidence in their mission,' said the long-time Pentagon insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'When the president doesn't know what direction to point people in, all his advisers can do is guess at what he wants. That's not good.'"

ISIS is not our enemy.! Our enemies are Republicans, Tea Party Members, Fox, and white Christian males, who believe in God and own guns.

[molson209]

Barney Fife carried One Bullet ,Obama is Empty

[Da Coyote]

Barney would be insulted.

He could beat the living sh..er...Obamastuff out of the Obamadork.

[VanDeKoik]

I think Otis The Drunk is the real puppet-master here.

[hosepipe]

[Mears]

Great cartoon. :-)

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think we need Aunt Bee in charge of things.

She can feed ISIL kerosine pickles and she is not opposed to stringing wire across a road to stop a problem in its tracks.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I was about to say.....Fife had integrity.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great stuff!

[Ezekiel]

Barney wasn’t evil, he just thought be was more capable than he was.

This POS in the White hut, though...

Obama is the seed of satan, a multicultural cesspool teaming with the likes of Amalek, Haman, Nero, Caligula, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Mugabe...

[C. Edmund Wright]

DANG…..beat me to it…..

[C. Edmund Wright]

Ernest T Bass and his rocks…..

[Cincinatus' Wife]

How about "the loaded goat?"

[God luvs America]

that’s insulting.....to Barney Fife...