Tamron Hall challenges Kay Bailey Hutchinson spin on President Obama’s actions in Iraq & Syria
Tamron Hall called out former Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and now GOP pundit. Hutchinson said it was time for a substantive discussion on ISIS as if this was not on the radar for years now. Tamron Hall pushed back by telling her it is impossible to ignore the recent massacre in Paris and the massacre in San Bernardino.
“It is one thing to talk about it,” Tamron Hall said. “It is another to offer a different strategy from the Obama administration. So far it doesn’t appear any of the candidates for the GOP has offered a different strategy than what’s in place.”
“I think they have,” Kay Bailey Hutchinson said. “I think the Republican candidates in the main, several of them have put forward a strategy of getting involved in stopping ISIS in Syria, stopping ISIS in Iraq, of going in with military force in a coalition with Arab countries as well as European countries and others. We need a broad coalition.”
Hutchinson went on to ramble in the attempt to inflame Americans with the standard GOP talking points about caliphate, cutting people’s heads off, women abuse, children abuse, murdering people on video, etc.
Of course absolutely everything the GOP is proposing is being done currently and quite a bit more. “Everything you just named is exactly the strategy in place,” Tamron Hall repeated again. Hall enumerated the President actions which were the actions Hutchinson is calling for. The cognitive dissonance in Hutchinson’s reply was obvious. It was as if she was a robot just repeating GOP talking points.
The debate on ISIS, the economy, income inequality, and much more is very important. One however cannot have a debate if one side refuses to have a reality based debate. Is blue not blue. Is red not red. It is impossible to move forward, it is impossible to give Americans options if one side simply does not have a reality based alternative.