Lettucehead alert: Chertoff has a “gut feeling”
Update: 7/11 11:15am: Chertoff forgot to share his tummy troubles with the White House, which denies there’s any emergency meeting about an increased threat of attack. Buffoonery: ” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had told the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board his “gut feeling” was that the United States faced an increased risk of attack this summer. [White House spokesman Tony] Fratto said he was not aware that Chertoff had made those feelings known to President George W. Bush.” Where is my Pepto-Bismol?
Update 7/11 8:24am: Martha Zoller asks, “Whose side is Chertoff on?”
Headline: “Respect Muslim American rights, Chertoff tells NAACP convention” (he spoke after visiting jihad-sympathizing Imam Husham al-Husainy’s mosque in Dearborn)
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Uh-oh. Department of Homeland InSecurity chief Michael Chertoff has a rumble in his tummy. He told the Chicago Tribune editorial board today that he had a “gut feeling” about a new period of increased risk of a terrorist attack. He reportedly based his assessment on earlier patterns of terrorists in Europe and intelligence he would not disclose–and told the paper that “Summertime seems to be appealing to them…We worry that they are rebuilding their activities.”
Maybe if he hadn’t spent so much time, energy, and capital lobbying for the open borders agenda of Big Business and Big Agribusiness, I’d put more faith in Chertoff’s concerns–and in his ability to do anything about them. ABC News reports that the White House has convened an “urgent” meeting for Thursday to deal with the “new threat” (you know, same as the old national security threats that got ignored during the shamnesty debacle):
Top intelligence and law enforcement officials have been told to assemble in the Situation Room to report on:
–what steps can be taken to minimize or counter the threat,
–and what steps are being taken to harden security for government buildings and personnel.
Hey! How about that $4.4 billion emergency border security funding package the White House dangled to try and buy off shamnesty votes? How about that, Secretary Chertoff?
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I’m not the only hardened cynic. Kathryn Lopez writes: “After the Immigration Debate, Excuse Me for Not Trusting This Man’s Gut.”
Ideas have consequences. The consequence of Chertoff and the White House’s full-throttled push for shamnesty? Severely damaged and diminished credibility at a critical point in the war on terror overseas…and at home.
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Given the resources at this man’s disposal, shouldn’t he be able to provide the American people with a more substantive reason for the increased probability of attack than a “gut feeling?”
His lettuce hair looks better than Donald Trumps hair. This admininstration has lost credibility. If there is an attack, there will be so many holes homeland insecurity has not plugged. They have set themselves up for failure.
Strange how nearly everyone in the U.S. has a “gut feeling” that we should secure the southern border to keep terrorists from crossing it–except for him. And now he has a “gut feeling” that we may be attacked this summer? He sounds very confused and doesn’t make me feel secure at all.
What would AQ have to gain by attacking now? I guess they figure it would put a fork in the Republican Party, and the Dems would be easier to deal with later.
Bush is dead, politically. He will spend the next year reaping the rewards of his cocksure “policy” initiatives, as outlined by the maniacally dumb Rove. All I can hope is for a real small government, warlike on defense Republican to emerge. Is it even possible to hope, or are we too emasculated as a country?
Michelle, this post is irresponsible.
Gotta like that lettuce head look. It’s a trend setter. What kind of dressing would you like?
No, this is irresponsible. And so is this.
scheduled for thursday? they want to be sure the buffet is properly prepared?
I thought the post was very responsible.
speaking of irresponsible, over in the Blotter comments there is alot of questioning the timing of every terror-related anything, to distract everybody from whatever scandal they want to talk about.
Here are comments 2, 3 and 4 from that thread:
This is what really concerns me about the GWOT, aside from nuclear technology. Really clueless people, and how many are they?
Chertie is part of the War on American Wages, so it is not surprising that he is aware that we have an insecure border with Mexico, being part of the cause.
I suppose the petulant Coyote-in-Chief has already ordered him to restart the tsunami of illegals now that the Comprehensive Immigration Corruption bill is moribund. No reason to continue the farce of enforcement.
For a minute I thought I was reading a liberal blog. I know we all have beef with Chertoff on the immigration issue. But this guy is piecing together intel from several different agencies. He sees a potential threat.
You can fault the administration on fighting terrorism at the border. But they have done a superb job of gathering intel and acting on intel. Seriously, on this issue give the guy a break.
Nice to know that the security of this Nation is dependent on the gastrointestinal tract of a Cabinet member. Could be terror on the horizon, or could be gas…
Where is Duke Wayne when you need him
This guy is a muppet. That would explain the feeling in his gut
Pal2Pal says:
No, here is what is irresponsible:
Chertoff doesn’t believe we should secure our southern border and has done nothing about doing it. It could be very likely, if here, that this Al Qaeda cell discussed in the ABC story entered through our southern border. Of course, Chertoff is not for a fence. When are you people going to wake up?
Why? He cannot even prove to us he was entitled to be in the BALLPARK when the right man was being sought for THAT job.
He cannot even prove to us that even LISTENING to him, isn’t the most stupid move we’ve made in our entire lives!
Yeah, and if there is an attack, how will the American Citizens be able to distinguish the terrorists from the DIM LIBERAL or RINO LIBERAL government guys who “come to help” (Ronald Reagan was right)?
Should it one day be established that a terrorist attack on the U.S. has been accomplished by evildoers who crossed our southern border, it will clearly be on the heads of those who blindly caused the demise of comprehensive immigration reform which would have afforded the scrutiny and enforcement necessary to foreclose such an event.
sarc/
Unfortunately, Lettuce Head isn’t the only one getting a bad feeling in his tummy.
Check out Shrinkwrapped’s post. The US may not be in harm’s way at the moment, but in the Middle East things are definitely heating up.
If we do have anything like another 9/11 and Bush or Chertoff or anyone prattles on about how it has nothing to do with the Religion of Peace Islam, but only some extremists who have “hijacked” Islam, I am going to just SCREAM!!!
Reporter: Mr President, is it true that you have decided to put a fence along the border with Mexico after all? And a follow up question sir, if so what will it look like?
George W. Bush: That is a very good question and yes I have. What will it look like? Well it will run the full length of the border and have special security gates every 100 feet.
All the security gates will have on them:
1) Press one for Spanish (with a response of “Welcome Amigo”).
2) Press two for Arabic (with a response of “Welcome honored member of the Religion of Peace”).
3) Press three for English (with a response of “Go to Hell you damed bigoted nativist who does not want what is right for America!!!”).
Michelle, I sure wish that you would stop ragging on my man Chertoff.
He is a visionary man who is looking out for us all.
He knows that our economy would fall apart if we did not have hard working Amigos from the south to pick our sacred lettuce, doing the job that lazy Americans would not even do for $50 an hour.
He also knows, what apparently you do not that lettuce is a wonder plant.
Someday soon a cure for cancer will be found from an extract from lettuce.
Someday soon highly fermented lettuce will power all our cars.
Someday soon lettuce reactor plants will provide all of our electricity.
A derivative from lettuce may even hold the cure for old age!!!
And the thing is Michelle only hard working Amigos from the south know how to pick lettuce in just the right and loving way to keep it from losing all of these magical properties.
Have you hugged a head of lettuce today?
Have you sent Secretary Chertoff a nice card letting him know just how much you appreciate him?
Think about it.
The admin has lost credibility regarding security at home. But I was encouraged to see that Bush is still defending the Petraeus plan in Iraq. He should be encouraged in this regard. We’re just shooting ourselves in the foot if we can’t say, “we don’t trust you at home, but you’re doing admirably overseas–don’t give up!–especially if you care about all that “legacy” stuff.”
I was vexed enough over the borders to make calls and emails. Shame on me if I don’t at least equally care about Congress prematurely abandoning Iraq. This is at least as great of a security threat.
Eating large quantities of lettuce can cause tummy growls. In fact the fiber can cause some looseness in the lower regions. But alas I see a new medical phenomenon looseness of the lips by our politically appointed Secretary to the press for non-Home land security issues.
I hear he is moving his office to an observation post overlooking his lettuce farm holdings.
Why has no one made the connection between “shamnesty” and George the I and Carlos Slim (NEW FORBES RICHEST MAN in the WORLD)….Carlos also paid for George the II governor races..George the I passed legislation to give Slim the telephone monopoly in Mexico…Illegals in USA continue to make Carlos rich….read article at http://www.outragedpatriots.com. The story of poor illegal on George I ranch is baloney…it is his connection to Slim that makes sense…..
Shouldn’t the head of the Department of Homeland Security actually work to SECURE THE HOMELAND???!!!
Didn’t you hear? In his most recent video proclamation, Zawahiri declared a Fatwah against lettuce. This is what has Cherti so concerned.
The lettuce that cried wolf.
Lets face it Michael Chertoff is a stooge. He thinks the Americans are stupid. How do you get a Gut feeling when you are gutless?
If he says that he suspects something might happen consistently then he can say I told you so.
When something does happen he will shift blame . Probably to the anti-shamnesty crowd for stopping the bill.
I want echo Michelle and ask where is our 4.4 billion dollars ??? What will it take to declare securing our country an emergency ? 9/11 was not enough .
I don’t know if this has been asked yet, so…
Why would the head of one of the three largest intellegence and enforcement bureaus in the nation, who has direct access to the other two (FBI and CIA) with our improvements post September 11th, have to rely on a “gut feeling”?
What does this tell us about the Department of Homeland Security? Can they not develop the information or relationships for a more credible report?
If they cannot develop actionable intellegence, and cannot secure the nation with the $4.4 billion fence and other efforts, and cannot enforce the laws currently on the books, then I ask:
What the hell did we get for our $40 billion 2006 budget, and what the hell are we going to get for our $42 billion 2007 budget?
If you ask me, I’d refactor this ENTIRE BUDGET to agencies that are getting it done, like DOJ and DoD, and fold those Bureaus like BICE (aka ICE) into an enforcement agency or Coast Guard in to a Defense agency.
I think it’s time that Mr Chertoff find a new job. He couldn’t secure ice in the Arctic.
As much as I dislike this man it seems we may have to struggle through these next two years until we can elect men with balls. The Republican administration is catering to almost everything. Do we have to elect Hillary before we apparently know what we should do? Possibly.
#1 job of the Federal government is to protect its citizens. This administration has failed. And I did vote for George Bush.
Chertoff, like Bush, is nothing but a freaking joke. To bring up another fabricated terror threat that might not be a threat but could be is clearly political theatrics. This behavior is completely irresponsible.
I am disappointed in Sec Chertoff’s statement. I am even more disappointed in the administration having a meeting … TOMORROW, to discuss this. The meeting should be … TODAY.
I am prepared to accept that he was speaking extemporaneuosly and that it was more of a Murtha ‘Okinawa’ moment.
He difinitely has to expand upon the statement.
They are just attempting to divert our attention away from the Amnesty debacle.
However, they need to get the ball rolling and SECURE THE DANG BORDERS!
It doesn’t take a meeting to do that UNLESS they once again think we are stupid and just want to appear to give a rat’s arse.
Posing is all it is IMHO.
Chertoff should read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book Infidel and see what happens when a government waits too long to take the Muslim threat seriously.
Did he catch anyone? Can I come out now?
could it be his gut became wrenched after meeting with the IMAM? Do you suppose that is where Chertoff gets his intelligence? Just a question..
Look, no excuses now. SHUT THE BORDER. Get that fence built now and put the military on that border now! Even if they have already come across, we can stop additional help or insurgency to come to their aid.
Why does the Bush administration fail to see the connect between homeland security on the border and the GWOT?
The Gut feeling is for butt covering, if we get HIT especially after this administrations position on border and port security, the director wants to point out he warned us. To me this means there is something up!! What then can we expect from our Govt a whole lot of finger pointing…still not following the people’s wishes or the people’s business.
Having a ‘hunch’ is fine. Its how a great deal of good police work gets done…… But he should have kept that internal. Its not really something to go to the press with.
al-Qaeda will attack again and it will be just what they said it will be: spectacular. In the attack, 7 US cities will be nuked. And the US government has prepared to be complicit in those attacks by its do-nothing posture on open borders. The purpose for allowing the attacks is to provide a necessary socio-economic collaps of the US in order to force the population to become one entity with Canada and Mexico as a trading union a la the European Union. Globalists have gutted the economy and run up the US national debt to successfully liquidate the US as a sovereign nation. It will continue to be a military power but not to serve the Constitution or the USA: the US military will be a martial power that continue to serve globalist agendas the world over (namely protecting oil pipelines in the Middle East and Caspian Sea regions).
The game is over and it ended with the election of William Jefferson Clinton who sold our top military secrets to the Chinese and finished the trade policy work needed to push NAFTA through while everybody contemplated his Monica Lewinsky Money Shots.
The “War on Terror” is merely the coup d grace that has drawn out the Muslim infestations around the world to act out their violent essence and scare the American population with nuclear attacks. Following the nuking with dirty bombs, the American people will “do whatever is necessary” to end Islam. And it will be destroyed: the nuking of American cities will end the Left in this country— and the real carnage will begin.
Israel will decimate Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt (again). Iran will be destroyed utterly. Mass civilian casualties will be the norm. Weapons of mass destruction (carrier battle groups that can wipe out population centers) will see to it. Boots on the ground will play a clean up role after years of police action.
The rope a dope policy of Rumsfeld et al will end as a necessary provocation of the American people to “do whatever it takes” to end Islam.
The USG was clear when 911 happened: World War 3 has begun.
Michael Chertoff is the perfect do-nothing bureaucrat for the role of “lid sitter” until the population can be mobilized for a full-on war footing.
People thought 911 was the Pearl Harbor of our age. It was not. The American “Hiroshima” will be.
Strap your hats on and hold onto your butts.
Israel is the key indicator of when and where.
This is not a conspiracy theory: it is one man’s opinion based on historical precedent and the habits of Western societies in the preparation for all out war.
This is Bear 1909 from Berkeley, California. OUT!
“Good fences make good neighbors.” -Robert Frost
This guy is an absolute buffoon. Instead of doing things that could protect us, like shutting down the borders, he was doing TV interviews and slandering us.
Now he has a “gut feeling” about a major attack - what kind of law enforcement professional says that in public?
DHS does not have anywhere near the capacity to track the massive number of people who came here legally and overstayed their visas - probably some who are terrorists! - and he was trying to convince us to legalize everyone!
I do not feel safe with this guy in charge, and if we do get attacked, this moron’s incompetance will probably be partly to blame.
This guy is a clown and there’s no other way to say it. I have a gut feeling too that he is aneven bigger idiot than what I thought before.
I don’t feel safe with this clown either. The cirucs is coming to Aiken, SC, perhaps he can catch up with the clown car there.
I agree with #44. “Clown” is the first word I think of to describe Chertoff. Lettuce pray he gets fired and replaced with someone competent.
Maybe we should get an illegal alien to do Chertoff’s job. He won’t do it.
When someone has access to intelligence, he doesn’t have a “gut” feeling. The statement is irresponsible at face value, but it is a way of telling all of us to be vigilant without laying out what he knows specifically, which could compromise intel sources.
When the next major terrorist event happens here that is what the Democrats will be screaming with a majority of the American people echoing the same.
El PResidente Jorge Arbusto has now pinned his most visible legacy to victory in Iraq. However, even if he succeeds in Iraq, he will go down in history as a failure greater than Carter should the USA be severly attacked.
He will get the blame, as some gave him for not being preventing the 9/11 events, even if attacks occur withing a year after Hillary becomes our next president.
Hillary is female. She is going to get nothing but blame. Will serve her right too. Not because she is female, but because she is a Clinton.
The next president will have to widen the war in Iraq….and extend full pork benefits to the current ship jumping Repubs and the treasonist Democrats.
This country is in disarray not scene since the Civil War. And we have a president that has been ridiculed on a magnitude that Lincoln was. In the longer view, no one is going to remember the Immigration Bill….they are going to be looking at the IslamoFascist Attack score card. Bush will come out on top as Intelligence archives are brought out of classified status to show how many and what kind of attacks were foiled in his 8 years.
Hell we might as well just hire Osama bin laden as the head of Homeland Security…
There are groups in Mexico that will train mid-Eastern males to look, speak and act like the average illegal immigrant from South America. It is just a matter of time until the Islamic enemy decides that it is time to attack to gain maximum political value. I doubt that this summer is particularly unusual even though the UK got hit by a bunch of “doctors”. However, in 2008, particularly August through October, look out.
Bear:
Methinks you should probably up the dosage a bit. Either that or discontinue the electric shock treatments - they’re causing your imagination to run a little wild.
ty for the photo shop that’s the best…rflmao…it’s appropo for the traitor