Seriously? Are conservatives so focussed on scoring points that they’re resorting to this trash?
Claim: The undiebomber got as close to blowing up a plane as he did because of Obama’s lax foreign policy.
Are you kidding me? If this is the case, then conservatives need to revise the whole "Bush kept us safe after 9/11" hypothesis, seeing as how the Richard Reid Shoebomber incident has a near direct parallel with this, both in event and in aftermath. Consistency is all I ask.
Claim: Trying the undiebomber in a civilian court demonstrates a lack of commitment to the war on terror.
Again, I point to Richard Reid, as does every other sane person writing about this. Same thing. We tried him in a civilian court and he’s rightly rotting in jail. Why should this be any different, other than to score political points?
The cynicism of the Republicans these days continues to absolutely boggle my mind.
As the healthcare battle and so many others have demonstrated, the Republicans are being obstructionist for its own sake, and it’s destructive to our legislative process, which requires a minority party acting in good faith. It’s especially frustrating to someone like me, who agrees with a decent amount of their policy proposals when they don’t behave like lunatics, because that stuff won’t get done either. To paraphrase Jon Stewart, Republicans don’t favor limitted government so much as they favor government limitted to Republicans.
