Why did Obama need to stop it?? Easy answer, because it was hurting his Muslim pals.
Obama is taking risks, which could be his undoing.
Terrorist interogations shutdown. If we get hit, the opponents will have a powerful issue.
They can say it COULD have been avoided.
And how about the Mexican flu? No border shutdown, no incoming flight health checks.
Again, a potentially powerful issue. It was fair play to make political hay, when Katrina became a somewhat containable disaster, PR wise for Bush.
On both these (and others) an aggressive, hard attack by the GOP would pay off big time.
A couple of instances where what is not good for America, could be good for the GOP.
If they have the balls to go after things like this, timing, good sound bites, etc. yield many seats IMO.
Bump for later reading.