The GOP has been consistently (at least rhetorically) critical of "lack of world leadership" by the Obama Administration. The world doesn't trust us, they say, because Obama isn't making bold moves and flexing American power to demonstrate commitment to powerful policy goals.
Which is why, of course, the GOP Congress is working to compromise any working agreement the US might negotiate at the Paris meetings in December, promising to try and block them at home and warning foreign negotiators that the provisions will not be binding on any future Republican president.
NIce encouragement of world leadership, folks!
The fact is, of course, that the GOP doesn't want Obama exercising US leadership, because they don't want Obama exercising anything. In their opinion, since the day Obama was elected, presidential leadership at home and abroad is something to (a) sabotage and block and then (b) criticize over a lack of.
And it's not even leadership about policies that they dislike, like talk of "climate change" (eek!). Is there any doubt that if Obama was running around invading countries like a Bush mad-man, the Republicans would be criticizing that, too?
If world leadership from the US has diminished over the last seven years (an arguable assertion), a large part of that can be directly laid at the feet of the GOP opposition, who have made doing much of anything of substance an impassable mine field. And the precedent they set will (unfortunately) come back to haunt them.
GOP to attack climate pact at home and abroad
An aide to Mitch McConnell has been informing foreign embassies about GOP plans to oppose Obama’s strategy on global warming
So true. I don't see a republican in the white house for several election cycles. Their own fault. Who was it That said "united we stand, divided we……..?"