Tom Maguire has a couple of good ideas:
Well, rather than beat our collective heads against the wall, let's acknowledge the obvious - we have a President who is much more interested in reforming America than he is in protecting it. So let's work with that! Since Obama only wants to focus on health care reform, here is my suggestion for enhancing the health of all Americans - let's have a government plan to prevent airplanes from getting blown up over our cities. Maybe we could call it the "public safety" option. Just a thought. [. . .]
Right, then, here is my second suggestion for health care reform - help prevent Americans from getting blown up by allowing our military and intelligence services to question enemy non-combatants without awarding them the legal protections available to American citizens. These terrorists are arguably not even entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention, but whatever - send this guy to Gitmo II and let the military interrogators talk to him in compliance with the Army Field Manual. Or, go Cheney on him. But not interrogating him at all until his lawyer cuts a deal is daft.
Maybe the House can amend the Senate health care bill to incorporate these ideas.
National security, a.k.a., not blowing up, trumps healthcare reform by a mile. Americans can tell the difference between a real crisis and a political power grab disguised as one.
While we're brainstorming on how to stay alive, here's another idea: forget subjecting harmless travelers to embarrassing body scans and invasive cavity searches (spare us, O Lord). Instead, El Presidente can issue this edict:
Linked at Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)
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Tom McGuire is just another BS machine.
ReplyDeleteIf he's going to allege a cause and effect line between the President and the NWA bombing attempt, he should have supplied some evidence other than empty rhetoric.
The TIDE database hasn't affected existing Visas since it was created - and the underwear bomber had gotten his Visa last year.
In other words, if the system is failing to alert all relevant actors (Dept. of State, the FAA, the airlines) to a new and credible threat, then yet again the current president is being skewered for the shortsightedness of the Bush administration.
Murph: No, our current President is getting a taste of what he and the liberals dished out while he was in the Senate. He blamed Bush and his Administration for not "connecting the dots", having vague information about planes being used or occupied by terrorists and that was BEFORE 9/11 after which we all realized, for the first time, that these bastards have been at war with us for a long time. There's no excuse that's acceptable after that date. We don't want to hear it... he didn't. He's the one that appointed people like Napolitano and Holder... we didn't. Their idealistic, naive, left-wing fantasy view of the world is going to get many of us killed. If he wants sympathy then he should fire Holder and get somebody like Gulliani in there, fire Napolitano and get somebody that can actually call a terrorist a terrorist and a terror act... an act of terror. Until he shows the rest of us that he sees what the rest of us are seeing... that these boobs are elitist snobs that are being "bitch-slapped" by our enemies, then how can we possibly believe he's not in complete agreement with them?
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