Posted on 12/28/2009 6:42:49 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, tells National Review Online that he’s “disappointed” with President Obama following the president’s remarks this afternoon on the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253. “We almost lost 270 American lives on Christmas Day and the president has decided to review a watch list. This is about more than a watch list,” says Hoekstra. “It’s about leadership.”
Criticism of Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security secretary, for her handling of the incident, “should be directed to President Obama, since she’s taking her lead from him on this,” says Hoekstra. “I think she’s made some terrible mistakes. Like many in this administration, she’s reluctant to use the word ‘terrorism.’ Though she may prefer the term, this was not an example of an almost ‘man-made disaster.’”
“Out of 300 million Americans, she is the only one who thinks the system is working when a guy with a bomb gets on a plane,” he says. “The other 299,999,999 of us know it’s not.” Obama, he adds, “needs to articulate a clear, concise strategy” to address “the threat of radical jihadists.”
“After eleven months in office, the president is still sending contradictory messages on national security,” says Hoekstra. “He says he wants to address the threats yet look at how he has responded to this, how he responded to Fort Hood, how he’s open to prosecuting folks in the CIA, how he’s closing Guantanamo Bay, and how he’s bringing terror suspects to New York City.” Such moves, he says, “make no sense” if one is “trying to build a strong national security policy.”
“The president may express his concern but his decisions are the statements that people remember,” says Hoekstra. In coming days, the congressman tells us that he will continue to call for an investigation into Flight 253 and the government’s homeland-security operations.
Still no National Security Strategy from the Obama WH. It was due last July.
Why the wait?
The system worked. Not one right-wing Christian, gun-owning bitterly clinging “tea-bagger” almost blew up an airliner on Christmas day.
If YOU DON’T LIKE SOMEONE YOU SEE ON A FLIGHT, GET THE HELL OFF.
I think you remember Hoeskstra was one of two people woken up when Israel took out that Syrian reactor.
He’s a man to be trusted, and I hope Sarah plans a place for him.
Thank you, Pete, for stating what nobody else will.
Nothing will be done. Even if those people had died, the dictator-child would simply vote "Present" and go back to golfing.
I wouldn’t wait.
Maybe we should vote for COMMON SENSE as a REQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC to be President of The United States of America.
He cannot bring himself to say Muslims or Islamofascists or Muslim extremists or radicals.
He just can’t.
He won’t identify our enemy by name.
He just won’t.
I think I know why.
This is the issue the Republicans need to go after Obama on. Lives are on the line. American lives.
I agree.
It is a pattern now. Deny, delay, and obfuscate.
OBOZO didn’t take more than ONE FREAKING NANOSECOND to decide that the Cambridge Police were Stupid and Racist when they had the audacity to question “HIS” Black Friend who was throwing an “Outrageous FIT!” and then OBOZO tried to cover up his reprehensible behavior by having a Beer with the Innocent and Wronged Law Enforcement Officer at the White House! But a Plane was Saved from being Blown out of the Air y an Outraged Muslim Terrorist only by an Act of OUR GOD, and certainly NOT ALLAH, and OBOZO is still trying to coverup the Atrocity of TERRORISM with his BULL SHOT Three days Later and WONT TELL THE TRUTH!! OUTRAGEOUS!!
And Napolitano is demonstrated to be a totally Incompetent, Mentally Unbalanced IDIOT who knows Nothing about Security or TERRORISM, but is merely an OBOZO Campaign Crony!!
Great comment, TRP. I join you in those thoughts.
Your words should be sent to every newspaper’s Letters to the Editor in the country.
Salute!
Thank you for your kind words.... Maybe RUSH will pick them up for his Broadcast tomorrow and maybe Hoekstra and King will too, and GOD Help Us! maybe even the RNC and Our So Called Chairman who is spending his time on the Paid Speaker Tour instead of doing his Job as chairman of the republican Party!!
As we all know – thanks to being told so by successive administrations — Islam is the religion of peace*. Thanks to the actions of one brave passenger — who fully understood that he had nothing to lose — the Bloomer Bomber failed to go off (or is that get off) and this incident remained a small one.
Thanks to PC and the chronic disease known as “Cranial Anal Inversion Syndrome” among most alleged American “leaders” all the way up to the White Mosque — er — House, this “small” incident — and all like it in the future — will disappear down the Orwellian memory hole.
I suspect the primary cause of the failure to put this guy – and only God knows how many more — on a no-fly list is that the folks down the food chain and on the ground who are SUPPOSED to keep these MUSLIM idiots off commercial flights are severely conflicted. On one hand, they are tasked to keep flying safe. On the other, they’ve all had multiple memos and “sensitivity sessions” stressing that they MUST NOT PROFILE but be especially alert to the feelings of Muslims. Any actions taken against them MUST be fully justified and documented. The vernacular expression dealing with that is “CYA.” And so they do — while the rest of us die or, thanks to the actions of a passenger, have a very close call on approach to Detroit.
Compounding the problem is that this particular miscreant was not only a Muslim but a black guy from Nigeria. And the American president is _________ (fill in the correct color) and, having been born to a Muslim father and raised in a Muslim country, sympathetic to the religion of _________. (fill in the appropriate term).
The response to this near-tragedy? Fatherland Security now keeps passengers in their seats for the last hour of the trip!! Great! I suspect sales of Depends will soon spike. Now these folks will die at 35,000 feet and the wreckage will be strewn over hundreds of square miles making it virtually impossible to determine if it WAS an act of mass murder by (select one) an angry Norwegian, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, a Muslim nutcase. A few more of these and the air travel industry will be COMPLETELY dead.
By their INACTION and persistence in their denial that we are at war with a determined and dedicated enemy, these alleged “leaders” have 100% guaranteed that the next one will NOT be “small.”
* BTW, “peace” has two definitions:
1. The absence of conflict or war.
2. The ABSENCE or SUPPRESSION OF RESISTANCE TO SOME FORCE, POLICY, IDEOLOGY or POLITICAL SYSTEM, etc. WITH WHICH ONE HAS AN ABIDING DISAGREEMENT WHICH ONE WOULD OTHERWISE ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT TO THE POINT OF TAKING UP ARMS.
Whats the problem? The system worked...then it did’nt...maybe it did, maybe it did’nt. It’s Bush’s fault!! Only if it did’nt work.
You noticed too? ;^) Very good call. Somewhere in the Honduran jungle a little boy may be making plans to trek to America when he reaches adulthood for the express purpose of pissing on this guy's grave. But, he'll have to wait in line behind the Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan, Afgani, Iraqui, and others.
Good news: the express line for quick relief takes you to the Al Gore headstone.
Good news: the express line for quick relief takes you to the Al Gore headstone.
The algore addition is a riot! LOL.
So long as the people prefer a Harvard graduate who is a silver-tongued orator, you're going to be short on common sense.
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