[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 117 (Monday, September 9, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PRESIDENT'S POLICY DEEPLY UNSERIOUS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, over the past month, I 
have traveled by bus and car across all five counties I represent in 
the Second District of South Carolina, where I found my constituents 
agree with Charles Krauthammer in his column yesterday in The State 
newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina.
  Mr. Krauthammer is recognized for his extraordinary insight and has 
identified the President's policy as ``stunning zigzag, following 
months of hesitation, ambivalence, contradiction, and studied delay''; 
the President ``having yet done nothing but hesitate, threaten, 
retract, and wander . . . claiming . . . not his own red line but the 
world's . . . a transparent attempt at offloading responsibility.''
  ``There's no strategy, no purpose here other than helping Obama 
escape self-inflicted humiliation.
  ``This is deeply unserious.''
  The White House announced April 25 that Syria had chemical weapons, 
but only after 4 months of serious scandals, ObamaCare destroying jobs, 
and the upcoming debt debate vote, did it seek action. On my tour, I 
was inspired at the North Augusta Rotary Club by the four-way test: Is 
it the truth?
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th, 2001, and September the 11th, 2012, at Benghazi in 
the global war on terrorism.

                          ____________________