Posted by
Silvio Canto, Jr. on Friday, August 11, 2006 9:57:48 AM
Why can't Ted Kennedy sit back, smell the roses and give the police the credit? No.
Ted has to find some way of criticizing the Bush administration:
"Ted Kennedy chimed in that "it is clear that our misguided policies are making America more hated in the world and making the war on terrorism harder to win."
Mr. Kennedy somehow overlooked that the foiled plan was nearly identical to the "Bojinka" plot led by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to blow up airliners over the Pacific Ocean in 1995.
Did the Clinton Administration's "misguided policies" invite that plot?
And if the Iraq war is a diversion and provocation, just what policies would Senators Reid and Kennedy have us "focus" on?"
It's a shame that the Democrats have to play partisan politics over everything. It really shows the total and complete lack of seriousness among Democrats.
These guys have lost 7 of the last 10 presidential elections. Do you wonder why?
I like Bad Timing BY DANIEL HENNINGER:
"This isn't the moment for a politics based on comics turning the president and vice president into joke material. The national mood may not be right now for extended blogospheric daisy chains of smack-the-enemy or cool wordplays with people's names. This isn't a game anymore. Not after yesterday's news.
What the Democratic Party needs more than anything for the way forward is adult supervision. Who's going to provide that? Bill Clinton? Joe Biden? Howard Dean? Not likely."
I like Democrats as Myopic Doves, Again By Charles Krauthammer:
"Lamont's alternative to the Bush Iran policy is to "bring in allies'' and ``use carrots as well as sticks."
Where has this man been? Negotiators with Iran have had carrots coming out of their ears in three years of fruitless negotiations.
Allies? We let the British, French and Germans negotiate with Iran for those three years, only to have Iran brazenly begin accelerated uranium enrichment that continues to this day.
Lamont seems to think that we should just sit down with the Iranians and show them why going nuclear is not a good idea.
This recalls Sen. William Borah's immortal reaction in September 1939 upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II:
"Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.''
This naivete in the service of endless accommodationism recalls also the flaccid foreign policy of the post-Vietnam Democratic left.
It lost the day -- it lost the country -- to Ronald Reagan and a muscular foreign policy that in the end won the Cold War."
Yesterday, good police work saved 2 or 3,000 people. Can't we celebrate that and stop playing politics?
Also, we have not been hit since 9-11. Maybe we are just lucky. Or maybe the Bush administration's policies, such as NSA surveillance, are working.