Jonathan Easley:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) recanting her criticism of the White House for national-security leaks is evidence the Obama administration “beats back into submission” dissenters within its ranks.
“There’s certainly an issue there, and a repeated pattern … with Cory Booker and others,” Cantor told Fox News. “When the administration sees individuals that disagree with it and them, they go very, very hard out in trying to beat folks back into submission so as not to have anyone out of line. It speaks, I think, to a lack of confidence that exists there.”
Republicans have seized on comments from Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which she suggested people in the White House have leaked classified information.
“The White House has to understand that some of this is coming from their ranks,” Feinstein said during an address at the World Affairs Council on Monday.
Feinstein walked back her comments on Tuesday, saying she regretted her remarks “are being used to impugn President Obama or his commitment to protecting national-security secrets,” and adding that she knows “for a fact the president is extremely troubled by these leaks.”
There were earlier quite a number of Dems who wished to challenge Obama in the Primary this year.
They, too, were beaten back into submission.
One of the successful charges brought against would-be challengers from their own Left side was that of ”racism.”
Black voters would be ”offended” if another Dem tried to challenge Obama.
Beating back his supposedly ”fellow” Dems seems to be a pretty common tactic of Obama’s.