Posted on 01/04/2010 8:53:14 AM PST by markomalley
After saying the president was "downplaying" security, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) now says Barack Obama is using "the right approach" in fighting terror.
Appearing on MSNBC Monday morning, DeMint still stressed that the administration needed to buckle down further in the war on terror. The conservative senator has been one of the White House's chief critics amid the fallout of the failed Christmas Day airline bombing.
“Instead of focusing on the blame right now, the president seems to be on the right approach," he said on MSNBC. "He’s recognizing we’ve got a terror problem. What he is doing in Yemen is good.”
DeMint said Sunday on CNN that Obama is too "distracted by other things" to deal seriously with national security issues. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee member was one of the first to criticize the White House for what he deemed an insufficient response to the attempted attack by a 23-year-old Nigerian national.
One of the president's other main critics, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), also indicated that he is now satisfied with the administration's response to the failed attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
What about Obama’s approach has changed in the last week?
I hope this report is untrue.
He hasn’t backed off. To change criticism in response to Obama’s recent changes isn’t stupid it’s smart. He is still blocking the TSA nominee. The headline is misleading IMHO.
Oops, post 22 was meant for another rabscuttle.........
Why would you think they were threatened?
Seems to me that DeMint is simply being an honest politician rather than a self-serving one....and one who apparently has a grasp on Sun Tzu.
Unlike the self-serving democrats for whom everything is a political opportunity to beat an adversary over the head with forever and ever, decent and effective stewards of the public trust are primarily concerned with getting results that benefit America. Tactics to accomplish that include strategic applications of graciousness and civility—however much it might gag them. DeMint’s attaboy points up the fact that the administration realized and acknowledged their laxness and error. Conservatives were right all along and democrats weren’t. The administration’s johnny-come-lately hop onto the national security bandwagon is a pretty stark admission of that.
We all know that the administration’s tough talk and tardy
announcement of various new measures were done for purely political reasons. So does DeMint. If it could have, the administration would have stuck with the lone extremist/the system worked spin. This is all an obvious PR move, intended only to shore up Obama’s tanking image. But so what? The point is, essential steps are starting. America might be a scintilla safer because Axelrod and Emanuel perceive a temporary polling benefit. It’s a start.
I like that.
LLS
Charity. I do not see that Øbama is doing anything different in his response to the Dec 25th incident. Yet, according to this article, DeMint and Hoekstra are saying that he's doing the right thing now.
In post #19, I asked, so what is Øbama doing differently now than before?
If Ø is doing something different now than before, I would appreciate somebody letting me know (because I sure don't see it).
If not, there has got to be some reason for these two, who have never been shy about criticizing Ø, to change their minds. It could be that they're flopping in the wind (doing the RINO shuffle)...it could be something else...or it could be that they have been blackmailed.
Please enlighten me if Ø has done something that is not aimed at the destruction of the country. I sure haven't seen it.
I strongly believe we must protect our polling places and monitor the counters if that’s possible. Enough of the big city nonsense where they wait to see how many votes are needed before reporting. Actually the system where ACORN is involved may be broken beyond repair.
Just maybe, it ain't so?
Obama needs to emulate Roosevelt in his handling of the illegal combatant who tried to down Fight 253.
You still trust people in government... I do not... not anyone.
LLS
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