Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire was speaking with Chris Wallace and stated that she believes President Obama’s military campaign against ISIS is being done purely from the vantage point of boosting his party’s political fortunes ahead of next month’s mid-term elections. Currently, the GOP stands to pick up as many as a dozen more seats in the House of Representatives. The party is also expected to recapture control of the Senate for the first time since the 2006 mid-term elections.
Sen. Ayotte believes that President Obama will abandon the fight against ISIS once the elections are over. She acknowledged that she is concerned the president’s current response to ISIS is a false bravado he is portraying and that after the elections are over he will resume his original foreign policy. She also expressed her concerns that the president is moving ahead with US troop withdrawals in Afghanistan that will create the same type of security void as his hasty unilateral withdrawal did in Iraq. The US troop withdrawal is believed by many to have given rise to ISIS.
Supporters of the president point out that there is no evidence that he will abandon the fight against ISIS after the elections are over. However, the president has already played politics with the law. He gave a temporary reprieve to employers regarding his health care mandate until after the mid-term elections.
That was done entirely at the pleading of vulnerable Democrat senators who were frightened their reelections chances would end entirely if the mandate took effect as planned in January. The same temporary reprieve occurred with respect to executive amnesty.