The Moslems can change their MO hundreds of times and we'll always be playing catchup.
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Posted on 12/29/2009 1:27:56 PM PST by pissant
Republicans have seized on the Christmas Day attempted terrorist attack as evidence that Democrats are weak on national security issues, as they seek to bolster their credentials ahead of next year’s Congressional elections.
As the Obama administration’s investigation into how a suspicious Nigerian man was able to carry explosives onto a US-bound aircraft gathers pace, a slew of Republicans have criticised everything from the president’s slow response to his plans to close the controversial Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
“Soft talk about engagement, closing Gitmo, these things are not going to appease the terrorists,” said Jim DeMint, a Republican senator from South Carolina.
“They’re going to keep coming after us, and we can’t have politics as usual in Washington, and I’m afraid that’s what we’ve got right now with airport security,” Mr DeMint told Fox News.
President Barack Obama on Monday made his first remarks on the attempted attack, vowing to track down “all who were involved” in its planning and use “every element in our power to disrupt and defeat violent extremists”.
Security has been tightened dramatically at airports across the US and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting an inquiry into how the incident happened.
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I can see this press conference.
President says: “Hey, not my fault. I’m in Hawaii. Don’t forget what’s her name, you know the person I put in charge. It’s her fault. Not mine. Janet! Remember her. She’s in charge. Not me.” .... “Ah, I had nothing to do with this.”
/sarc
He and his administration ARE focussed on using the power of the federal government the biggest threats to THEIR POWER - conservatives, veterans, pro-lifers, Constitutionalists, etc.
Prepare for the race card to be thrown.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
This douche bag can't do ANYTHING on his own. He only reacts to criticism.
I only wonder if he would be talking at us right now if he hadn't been taking all of this deserved flack for the "system working".
Cool. I did not even know he was running for Guv.
President Barack Obama on Monday made his first remarks on the attempted attack, vowing to track down “all who were involved” in its planning and use “every element in our power to disrupt and defeat violent extremists”.
There would, of course, be no need to track them down had he not ordered them released from GITMO.
These are not "violent extremists" they are enemy combatants. The captured member of the terrorists is now hiding behind a lawyer instead of facing interrogation methods of the type acknowledged to have been so effective with Khalid Sheik Muhammad.
By his willful neglect to defend this country in TIME OF WAR, American citizens and this country have been placed in grave danger by the power mad usurper who is ignoring common sense and our established rules of law.
His chances are pretty good. Granholm is done and Hoekstra is well known.
Too bad Granholm isn’t running again. A dead gerbil could beat that worthless tramp.
I’d rather beat her with a dead woodchuck.
You have precisely hit on what is kknown around here as “The Daley Way” or “The Chicago Way”.
Deflect, misdirect, redirect, deny.
The President can’t even vote “present”
It’s already Dec 29th and only now are some Pubbies tsking our Marxist Usurper to task. Pathetic!!!!!!!!!!
He was handed the plan to continue the WOT and threw them away
The Moslems can change their MO hundreds of times and we'll always be playing catchup.
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That's quotable!
We keep suffering from anaphylactic shock instead of killing the yellow jackets.
Thank you.
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