Earnest: "Our plan is to trap them in Ramadi, and it's working"

When ABC's Jon Karl asked the Obama administration's Press Secretary, Josh Notso Earnest, about the president's current strategy against ISIS (aka ISIL, aka Islamic State, aka IS) and whether or not it's working, Josh, being the kidder that he's known to be said, "Heck yes. We've got those extremists where we want them--smack dab in the middle of Ramadi." 

Well, he said something to that effect, "Overall, yes," adding, "The strategy that the president has laid has enjoyed periods of progress."  He referred to Barack's 2014 statement in which he admitted that there would be "periods of setback" in the fight against ISIS.

The only thing Obama has laid is an egg.

Earnest (whose last name is an oxymoron like "military intelligence") told reporters during the press briefing that Obama is deeply involved in the fight and was even asking questions about it to people who also watch TV media to find out what's going on in the country and the world.

After several more probing questions from reporters about the fall of Ramadi, Earnest questioned reporters about their constant nagging about the place.

"Are we going to light our hair on fire every time there's a setback?" he asked. "I mean, who in their right mind would stay at a Ramadi when you've got the Hilton, right?"

"But seriously, they're in Ramadi and the Iranian forces are going to trap them there. Like what could go wrong, dude?"


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