[Mrs Ivan]

Oh dear.

[AZRepublican]

I don't think this will surprise anyone that Demwits have no clue about anything.

[A CA Guy]

Pretty standard for Democrats.

[TigersEye]

Jeff Stein was on H&C tonight. He said Pubbies are no better than Reyes and even FBI officials are stumped when asked these questions. Does everybody feel safer now?

[decal]

But, hey, at least he's not a former Federal judge ("former" because he was impeached for bribery and perjury).

To the Dems, this is considered "progress" - that's why they're "progressives."

[sageb1]

Idiots all.

Perhaps watching Obsession, listening to former Muslims Walid Shoebat and (Kareem?) Saleem, and watching this Spencer video should be required.

http://hotair.com/

[Liberty Wins]

Um, have the members of the Baker commission been quizzed?

[taxesareforever]

Now we know why the demorats want to cut and run. They don't know where our troops are and want them home so then they'll think we believe that they have a clue about what they are talking about. Ain't going to work.

[pandoraou812]

Miss Pelosi is said to harbour a long-time personal grudge against Miss Harman.
Well then she needs to get over it. She is supposed to pick the person best suited for the job. I thought Fran Nan said she was going to do such a wonderful job. More dem bs as usual. I see a world of trouble ahead for us.

[RoyStevens]

"The new Democratic chairman of a US congressional intelligence committee did not know what Hizbollah was and incorrectly described al-Qa'eda as deriving from the Shia rather than Sunni sect of Islam."

Representative Silvestre Reyes was flummoxed when a journalist rounded off a 40-minute interview by asking him two basic questions about the Islamic groups that are the principal targets of America's intelligence agencies.

"Al-Qa'eda is what – Sunni or Shia?" Jeff Stein, the Congressional Quarterly magazine's national security editor, asked Mr Reyes. "Al-Qa'eda, they have both," came the reply. "You're talking about predominately?" the congressman then asked, before venturing: "Predominantly – probably Shi'ite."

Why not just admit that you are on the intel committe but that you have no clue what you are talking about.

[upchuck]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751752/posts

[kipita]

People here in South America (Spain) are shocked by the relativity high level of ignorance!

[oyez]

The old Pogo comic strip was so right, "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

[GSlob]

"Oh dear"
Why "Oh dear"? Look at it positively. Their gross ignorance [may Allah increase it!] is what keeps them from meddling effectively, and thus from gunking up the works. Ignorant and incompetent malicious idiot, while unpleasant [granted], is still infinitely preferable to a competent and knowledgeable malicious idiot.

[marron]

The ten or twenty percent of "middle of the road" moderates who actually decide elections are about as intelligent and engaged as these dim bulbs. That is how they manage to get elected, and that is why the people who elect them don't notice how profoundly ignorant they are.

Journalists don't notice how ignorant they are because they share all the same prejudices, and because being educated isn't required of a journalism major, it isn't part of the curriculum.

[WKUHilltopper]

I can hardly wait for this report to run on NBC, ABC and See BS....pffft!

[technomage]

Unfortunate how politicians continue to make decisions that endanger all Americans.

Committee Heads are chosen based on seniority, or based on influence, or as part of a previous deal, but not based on their knowledge of the underlying subject of that committee. For many Committees, that can physically and economically harm us little peeples.

[proud_yank]

Odd that the American media hasn't been running this on the front pages.

[Richard Axtell]

I would be surprised if he had said something intelligent. Since he didn't, nothing about my assessment of Democrat competence regarding the issue of national defense has changed.

[Bonaparte]

"No, to be honest with you, I don't know."

Leave it to a Republican to at least make the simple admission that he doesn't know, rather than try b*llsh*ting a journalist. My answer would have been, "Stand 'em on their heads, they all look the same to me." Much more quotable.

[Dallas59]

Not important. Why would Dems what to put a label on their freinds?