Clown alert: Janet Napolitano says the “system worked;” Update: And now…J-No’s about-(clown)face
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It has been, in the words of Queen Elizabeth II, an “annus horribilis” for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Beginning with her embrace of the impotent euphemism “man-caused disasters” to the hit job on conservatives and veterans that she was forced to apologize for, to her assertion that crossing the border illegally “isn’t a crime per se”, to her boneheaded claim that 9/11 terrorists came in through the Canadian border, Ja-No has confirmed time and again that she’s not ready for prime time.
Today, she caps off her horrible year by playing Big Pollyanna in the wake of the Flight 253. The botched bombing — foiled by a faulty detonator and brave passengers, not by homeland security bureaucrats or any preemptive measures by intel officials — shows that the in Ja-No’s fantasy world.
Transcript of Napolitano’s interview on CNN via CQPolitics:
CROWLEY: Secretary Napolitano, thank you so much for joining us. If I am about to get on a plane today in the U.S. or headed toward the U.S., I think my big question is, is this part of a larger plot, or do you think this is a lone wolf?
NAPOLITANO: Well, right now, we have no indication that it’s part of anything larger, but obviously the investigation continues. And we have instituted more screening and what we call mitigation measures at airports. So I would advise you during this heavy holiday season just to arrive a bit early, and to know that we are going to be doing different things at different airports. So don’t expect to do the same thing at one airport when you transfer through to another airport.
But the traveling public — this is my message for you, Candy. The traveling public is very, very safe in this air environment. And while we continue to investigate the source of this incident, I think the traveling public should be confident in what we are doing now.
CROWLEY: So, just to finish up on the question– I do want to talk to you about security measures — but do you think — has there been any evidence of the Al Qaida ties that this suspect has been claiming?
NAPOLITANO: Right now, that is part of the criminal justice investigation that is ongoing, and I think it would be inappropriate to speculate as to whether or not he has such ties.
What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action. Within literally an hour to 90 minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred on the Northwest Airlines flight. We instituted new measures on the ground and at screening areas, both here in the United States and in Europe, where this flight originated.
So the whole process of making sure that we respond properly, correctly and effectively went very smoothly.
If the “system” had “worked,” the U.S. consular officials who granted Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab a short-term visa last June would have revoked it immediately upon being informed by his father that he was a Muslim radical with al Qaeda ties.
If the “system” had “worked,” U.S. consular officials would have never granted Abdulmutallab — a rootless, young, single male — a visa in the first place in compliance with State Department visa regulation 214(b):
That law requires an applicant to show strong roots in his home country — such as a house, a spouse, and/or employment — in order to prove that he would be likely to return home when his visa expired.
Young, single, unemployed men are the people most often refused visas under 214(b) (when it is actually enforced) for the very reasons that al Qaeda recruits them so heavily: They are shiftless and have very little to stop them from packing up and moving to a new country. There’s also, sadly, very little to prevent them from committing terrorist attacks.
If the “system” had “worked,” Abdulmutallab would have been barred from the U.S. like he had been barred from Britain.
The “system,” like Napolitano, was an epic fail.
And as predicted, Napolitano also played the “lone nut” card — dismissing the Christmas Day jihadist as a single operator not part of “anything larger” despite his own testimony to the contrary.
She’s Obama’s biggest joker. And there’s no Blame-Bush loophole
to weasel through anymore.
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Nothing to see here, move along:
An Al-Qaida operative in Yemen threatened the United States and said “we are carrying a bomb” in a video posted online four days before the botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight.
The video does not contain any clear evidence that the speaker was anticipating Friday’s attempt, but it has attracted scrutiny because of reports that the bombing plot may have originated in Yemen.
The 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the attack claimed he received training and instructions from al-Qaida operatives there, U.S. law enforcement officials said, and a key American lawmaker has said there are “strong suggestions” of a Yemen connection.
In a Dec. 21 video, the al-Qaida operative delivered a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni airstrike on a militant training camp four days earlier. The speaker said he had no agenda against Yemeni soldiers, but warned them against cooperating with Americans.
“We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God,” the speaker says.
“O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America,” he says. “You should not defend these regimes. The soldiers and even Obama cannot put out the light of Islam.”
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Related from Andy McCarthy:
It sounds trite but it’s worth repeating: The object of terrorism is to terrorize, and obviously the mission has been accomplished even if the plane was not brought down.
In Willful Blindness, I recount the debacle of repeated entries into the United States by, among others, the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman) and al Qaeda operative Ali Mohammed — the former permitted free entrance, egress and, finally, a green card (as a special religious worker) even though he was one of the world’s most famous jihadists and was on the terror watch lists for having authorized the murder of Anwar Sadat; the latter permitted to immigrate from Egypt and join the U.S. army despite having been caught trying to infiltrate the CIA. Now, nearly 20 years later — after 9/11, the 9/11 Commission, etc. — we have Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: He was in the terrorist “database” because we were warned by his own influential father of his radical ties and proclivities, and he was evidently notorious among associates in Africa and Europe for his jihadist leanings; yet, he was issued a multiple-entry visa. And he claims to have been trained in Yemen — the al Qaeda hub to which the administration has just sent a half-dozen trained jihadists previously detained in Gitmo, and where it hopes to send many more.
I wonder what the media would be saying if George Bush were still president.
Jonah Goldberg says, “Fire Napolitano.”
But her hapless first-responder mentality is simply a reflection of the man who hired her.
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Update: Ja-No does an about-face. About-(clown)face:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that “the system worked.”
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that “the system worked.”
The secretary’s comment Sunday was widely criticized, given that suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was foiled because his explosive mixture did not properly detonate and he was stopped in his tracks by vigilant passengers.
The suspect, who carried the explosive in his underwear, passed through security at two airports — in Nigeria and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Plus he was not on any “no-fly” list, even though he was on a massive federal database of people with suspected ties to terrorists and his father apparently had warned U.S. embassy officials in Nigeria about his son.
“Here, clearly, something went awry. We want to fix that problem,” Napolitano told Fox News on Monday.
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Replacing her with another loser, won’t work. They all dance to Pelosi/Obama’s tune. The smart thing to do, would be to cut the CIA loose, with orders to investigate and terminate with extreme prejudice. Of course, they would also inderstand that the WH “sees no evil, speaks no evil, and hears no evil.” Of course to a peace and talk liberal, that would be abdominable.
Errah, Big Sis stands ready with teams to clean up the debris field at all major US airports. Nothing to see here! She’s well coached by Kevin Bacon, Screaming “All is Well!!!!!, All is Well!!!!” She’s as effective as HS Sect as she was as Gov at stopping the invasion in her home state. Perhaps another 6 month study by a blue ribbon panel is what’s needed here. If these dopes were in charge in 1941 we’d all be speaking german and japanese.
If Obama does not fire her in the next 24 hours, I support initiating impeachment proceedings against him. People here know me as centrist with left leaning but this clown is just plain scary.
supersean said:
Good. Go tell a few of your friends that vote for dopes like these and maybe we can begin to pick up the pieces of our broken system and get back to strength and prosperity.
If convicted, that would leave Biden as President, with Pelosi in line. If there is one thing that Obama did that was smart, was covering himself.
So now the rest of us have to suffer longer delays and more searches because the idiots didn’t pick up on any of the obvious clues given by the bomber himself. “Hey, I’m a terrorist! Arrest me!” Sit in your seat, don’t cover your lap and don’t go the rest room. Maybe they should just remove the restrooms from the planes. Yeah, that will solve the problem. Numbskulls!
I wonder if any of the passengers on that plane switched to the Republican Party or do they feel the risk they took flying with a known terrorist is the PC price they have to pay to guarantee rights to the known guilty scumbags?
Does the White House know we are at war yet?
I have been able to avoid flying since about 1999. I have no intention of getting on another plane ever if I can avoid it. TSA is a joke. Napalitano is a joke. HSA is a joke. None of them provide ANY real security.
Errah, but they sure look spiffy and commanding in those uniforms when they catch me will a full 3 oz of toothpaste! Do they screen British passengers with the same zeal for dental products as normal amurikans?
The sad facts are;
- 2 Muslims (not White vets in militia groups) have attempted terrorist atrocities upon Americans contrary to the cooked up story JaNo and the Obama regime foisted America with their original “returning vets joining militia” warnings.
- 13 innocents died at Fort Hood because the system failed.
- 277 innocents on a NWA jet over Detroit are alive only due to sheer luck and stand as evidence of yet another example of this Obama regime’s failures to protect Americans.
Obama and JaNo have their eyes “focused like laser-beams” on the wrong targets…and we’ve 3 more years of risk under this incompetent Obama regime.
Perpetual denial from the political opportunistic truthers of the hard left Big-O Administration.
How’s that Hope & Change goin’ for ya?
If the “system” had “worked” we would not be letting people from failed/non-existent states into this country. There is NO way to run real background checks on people from Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and even Mexico and much of Latin America. While Nigeria has a functioning capitol the rest of the country is in one state of rebellion or melt down. Nigeria is a smugglers paradise and crime ridden hell hole.
But what is a destroyed airplane and a few hundred dead people compared to diversity? While Governor of Arizona Janet Napolitano was the coyotes second best friend–right behind Juanita McCain.
Outrage after outrage. Incompetence after incompetence.
Yesterday it was “The system worked”.
Today it is “The system failed”.
They name dolphins after this dimwit.
Our government has been invaded by a bunch of party-on juveniles who are totally out of control, pretending to do jobs that they cannot. They have put the administration on auto-pilot and when the auto-pilot kicks off, they haven’t got a clue as to what to do. A joke, a hilarious travesty. We need to get these clowns out, clean house and get real leaders into their jobs, that is if there are any left out there. Hello??? Anybody wanna lead a democratic republic???
Oh…they are focused on the target alright. The target is the subjugation and destruction of the United States as we know it. Everything else is a distraction.
HA!
That looks more like James Hansen to me.
Ok, the blankets and pillows I can do without. But I travel every week as part of my civilian job nowdays and after a two hour traffic delay sometimes have to heed the ‘call of nature’ on a thirty minute flight. On other flights of longer duration, the time most people seem to need to go is that thirty minute period just before landing.
Why should I be inconvenienced when obviously the TSA is incompetent.
How about we replace the TSA and the whole screening thing with explosive sniffing dogs,and hand each passenger a 12 ga. with bean bag rounds and a fighting knife unless you have your own.
Might even help with self important loud mouths on their cell phones.
The clowns in charge don’t care at all because they fly on our government transportation. They (Clowns) won’t be bothered when lots of people pay for their ignorance and incompetence with their lives, any more than they care now about the destruction of public transportation and the idiotic waste of time and resources that we the citizens endure.
I wonder what the world would be like if government and lawyers had ZERO involvement with airline security? In a purely capitalist model post 9/11/2001, airlines would be falling over each other to advertise how secure they are. “Fly United, our highly trained pilots pack serious heat so you don’t have to!” “Allegheny Airlines knows who they are – and they won’t be on our flights.” “We at Global Airlines are pround to announce our new ‘trusted frequent flyer’ service. If you get to know us and we get to know you – you’ll get express boarding and a discount.”
And then there’d be new airlines like Jihadi Air – “We’ll take you when no one else will.”
This effin’ nitwit dope is every bit as dangerous as the worst kind of terrorist.
Maybe more so.
The Barak & Rahm plan for our future – turn it all over to them in the midst of a crisis, and they in turn will turn it all over to a governing world body.
To repeat my comment, Dec. 26th, Janet Napolitano needs to resign. Today.
Ain’t it the truth. What an absolutely abysmal cabinet appointment. Wake me up when this bad dream is over.
In true Napolitano style and in yet another display of sheer incompetence…
She’s now adjusting her ‘message’ admitting that, well, maybe we weren’t successful after all. One word: DENSE. Very, very dense.
“Napolitano concedes airline security system failed”
http://www.katu.com/news/national/80201762.html
Doh! Sorry, but the demonstrated learning curve here was just a tad behind expectations, but then again, maybe I just expect too much.
Janet Napolitano corrected her earlier statment because when she said the system worked, she was taken out of context. Read her statement carefully :
“What we are focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. And one thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action.”
It is obvious that when she is talking about the system working, she was actually talking about making coffee at the office. These conservative pundits should stop taking her statements out of context.
Janet, you’re doing a heck of a job!
Also, the photo manipulation is insulting to the fine clowns who entertain throughout this country. Napolitano is so unethical and clueless that she belongs in the category of fictional villains.
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Arizona’s gain was the U.S.A.’s loss! What a clueless clown.
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John Bibb
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And even if “the system”, didn’t work so well in this one tiny instance, we should all be greatful to Napolitano for her hard work in making air enviornment safe! After all if people are too frightened to fly on airlines, then we will burn less fosil fuel and the environment, as well as air quality, will become better and safer for us all. We should thank these terrorists for their hazardous work in trying to save the planet and avert global warming.
Hey Hey Ho Ho this nappy ho has got to go.
For those who would like to know where Napolitano stands on this, I would like to invite you to look back:
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/09/24/the-arizona-911-memorial-disgrace/
She was enthralled with the memorial, especially the inconvenient part where Americans were killed because, apparently, we keep p*ssing off the rest of the world. So in Ja-No’s mind, the system almost worked in Detroit…if only the terrorst had been successful.
I just heard this bho will make a comment on this sometime this afternoon. I won’t listen, I can not stand to hear his voice. I will get the information from others who will listen. I’m sure he will say we need to wait and get all the information before we pass judgement on this terrorist.
L
Under the new TSA rules, you will be be prohibited from getting out of your seat to stop a terrorist that is arming his bomb. Proper procedure will be to notify a flight attendant, which will then consult with the captain about recommended response. Then J-No will be able to yap about how the system worked and everybody did their part, even as rescue crews are combing through the wreckage.
I believe this is actually the membership database for Southern Baptists. In Ja-No World, they are the suspected terrorists..
I saw this..XXY chromosome…on this morning’s news programs…
Wasn’t there some study done that concluded when someone is saying an affirmative with their words, but shaking their head ‘no’ whilst saying it, that person is lying?
and with them in charge now we’ll all either be speaking chinese, farsi or butchered spanish babel…got those pocket dictionaries yet??
Fire the scumhag and replace her with Sheriff Joe and let him enforce the law!!
Great job Janet! You make Nathan Thurm proud!
Whooda thunk it??
A career politician makes a stupendously stupid statement praising a policy or procedure she is responsible for that was a spectacularly public failure.
Said politician finds out no one is falling for her line of crap.
Within 24 hours and with a straight face, said politician does a 180* turn and says “Here, clearly, something went awry. We want to fix that problem” which translates into “Oops. My Bad. No problem. Sorry. I got caught telling another big, fat LIE.
It is amazing how quickly Big Sis does an about face as soon as the phone call from the White House Chief of Staff comes in from Hawaii.
Truly a “Come to Jesus” moment. She is utterly clueless.
It appears to me that Napolitano, and the rest of Obama’s minions, including Obama himself, adhere to Finagle’s 6th Rule (one of the many corollaries to Murphey’s Law), to whit: “Do not believe in miricles–rely on them.”
Then we don’t need plates for skeet shooting, we can use Jihadi Air for target!
I wonder if she heard Bambi revving up the bus in the background?
Anybody else think their weird next door neighbor could do a better job than this clown?
Errah, John Wayne Gacy is embarressed.
Then step aside and let someone capable take over. I wouldn’t trust you watching my dog while I stepped behind a tree to pee. If I had a dog.
Totally Politically Incorrect, but this dyke needs to take a hyke. Become governor of Idaho maybe, short international border and all.
Even Janet knows she is an agent for the New World Order North American Union.
Don’t forget to keep letting those illegal aliens in too Janet. Your doing a bang up job for somebody.
janet incompemento is not going to keep any one safe
I have flown a lot in the past 8+ years
Every time I fly I look at my fellow passengers
Every time I check to see if there are any obvious looking muslims on board
If they are I keep my eye on them the entire flight
I watch for any potential disturbance from anyone
So far I have arrived safely and without incident every time
I will continue to observe all my fellow travelers everytime
Take that jerkit incompomento
“taken out of context”…(phrase)late 20th century American English…used as a justification when a politician is caught lying.
she was such an enforcer of our sovereignty laws as governor of arizona, the boy king wants her to do the same for the country. ALL YOU TERRORISTS, COME ON DOWN! gitmo to illinois, mexico to the southwest, middle east to michigan and minnesota, africa to new york and d.c. WE ARE THE WORLD.
Errah, the system, in this instance has worked well before not working well just for this lone instance of course.
Errah, with this type of gross negligence I would have to say that Big Sis should be added to the “No Fly” and “Watch” list as a domestic terrorist. I’m afraid to fly because of her (in)actions.
Brian Ross at ABC is reporting that two of the men suspected of being behind this attack were released from Gitmo in 2007.
If so, then maybe Janet was right that the system worked just as the liberal democrats want.
With the new rules about blankets and pillows, it only means that the Ms. Napolitano’s people have scr**ed the pooch again. People will now stuff jackets and such that they used to keep in their laps on winter flights into the space between the seat and the inner hull on window seats, a means of tamping an explosive device hidden in said jacket. Now, I’m not a betting man, but I’d wager that the PETN was packaged in a way that might just as easily be sewn into a jacket liner and that the secondary part to the binary explosive device was in regular insulin syringes or a former Humulin vial to be transferred via insulin syringe to the explosive. It wouldn’t take much to change this up just a bit to use what DHS has wrought to make success even more likely.
Has anyone over there in DHS got even half a brain? We know the boss there isn’t even a half-wit (see the statements made yesterday and today in or out of context).
Errah
LOL!
Errah, so catch and release is not just for fish anymore??!!
As much to blam as J-No is the State Department which issued the visa. Let us look beyond the hedgerow.
Airline Security….give everyone a gun. You cannot board an airplane without a loaded gun. TSA will supply weapons at the security screening stations. Passengers who observe dangerious activities are authorized to shoot.
They were lucky to still be passengers and crew and not scattered body parts.
Reporter: Is it still safe to fly after this incident?
Ja-Nap: Yes
Reporter: Do you know how this happened?
Ja-Nap: We have no idea.
Reporter: Then how do you know it is safe?
Ja-Nap: We don’t. Republicans are just playing on your fears.
Reporter: So let me see if I got this rght. You don’t know what happened, or how it happened but you are sure that we are all safe until we point out you don’t know but you say the system worked but the system had nothing to do with a failed explosion (other than security measures make it tough to get a working bomb on board). When we point out the system did not work, then you agree to that. So we are left with a failed system run by you but you tell us we are safe but you don’t really know anything. I think… YOU LIE!
FoxNEWS just ran a report on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that said the White House is saying the watch lists were a creation of the Bush administration. So I assume that means we’ve found the ultimate guilty party and his name is George Bush.
Other than the bomb in his underwear, there is no suggestion that he was improperly screened.
Moron!
So Bush created watch lists but we think they are stupid so we pay no attention to them. Whoops. Maybe GW Bush is smarter than us and we should have looked at those lists. Oh well, no harm, no foul. Whats for dinner?
It appears that DHS Secretary, Janet Incompetano, has been mentored by V.P. Biden. She took the words right out of his mouth.
Jersey Joe
How about we drag that guy over here that used to be the top security guy for El Al Airlines? Pweese, won’t they start a U.S. division with the same security measures in place? Only other alternative would be to segregate passengers – one for jihadists the other for people that have never shown an interest in bringing down an aircraft nor flying same into buildings!
Has everyone seen this video?
FBI Shoe Bomb Video
I understand the current terrorists bomb would have done the same damage and destruction.
I heard the shoe bomber had 30 grams of PETN. The panties bomber had 80 grams of PETN. They said 100 grams would obliterate a small car. I think he had enough to get the job done.
By the way, the job would be accomplished just by setting it off and killing more than himself. It’s called terror.
I have to fly out east in a couple weeks. This doesn’t raise my confidence in the slightest, particularly with the report that more jihadis are lining up.
…and now, you dizzy bimbo, the passengers who “took appropriate action” are forced to sit in their seats for the last hour…as if that does ANYTHING for securing the plane BEFORE the flight even gets off the ground.
“we respond”? To what? A plane that made it to the ground the right way rather than in pieces?
This silly ass should not be in charge of securing a dog pound let alone an entire agency charged with securing the homeland.
Department of Homeland Security?
More like Department of Hacks and Simpletons.
…only on the back nine.
I’d like to hear the stewardess ask, “magazine, pillow, billy club?”
Heckuva job Nappy!
Is this a way of saying this incompetent administration doesn’t use the lists then?
We keep on making outlandish concessions instead of covertly eliminating the bastards in their nests. What happens when they can roll plastic explosives into paper thin sheets to insert into books and magazines, or anal charges, or in pens? What about “home brew” nerve gas stored in pens and perfume cases or fake cameras and cell phones? Do we have to travel naked to be safe? Then what when they move on to AmTrack and Co.? Do we spend billions guarding every yard of track? It will never end till we’re still scared AND bankrupt! This is insane! Sic the CIA/SEALS/Delta/Force-X/SAS/Berets on these mad dogs in their lairs!! “PC” won’t keep your family alive!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Teddy – you seem to have made an abrupt turn in your political philosophy since you DIED. What’s up with that?
Not really. We have somehow survived one year of Zero – we can surely survive at least another until the 2010 elections wrest control of this country from the current party of scumbags. Biden at least is not a fascist, and he has the ultimate “don’t kill me” in madame Pelosi. THAT we could NOT survive.
At any rate – replacing Nutpolitano would achieve nothing, as Zero would no doubt appoint someone fully conversant in bombs to replace her. Bill Ayers, anyone?
Maybe we should start putting defensive tackles on flights.
To me, all this says is the Obama administration is too incompetent to follow the lists, then.
BUSH ISN’T PRESIDENT ANYMORE!
When, for the love of all that is good and merciful, will this “president” stop playing the “It’s Bush’s Fault!” card and start acting like the leader he claimed to be?
Oh, that’s right…NEVER.
Because he’s the biggest freakin’ loser I’ve ever seen.
Good gracious, I miss Bush.
A new flight rule from the geniuses at DHS:
Isn’t it nice to know that if you spot someone on a flight trying to light his undies and you get out of your seat to stop him, you will be arrested for violating the new rules. I feel so much safer already.
Does anyone here get the feeling that someone wants the jihadis to succeed?
The new rules restrict the law abiding and would provide a reason to put an explosive device and provide tamping to assure a hull breach on an airliner. It kind of sounds outlandish but, it’s either that or they’re stupider than a box of rocks. Which could also be the case.
UPDATE — Official theme music established for DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano during news conferences and interviews:
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/midis/bigtop.mid
Seriously, can someone explain to me what the “stay seated during the last hour” accomplishes? Do terrorists only attempt to blow up planes in the last hour?
Ask you suspect, it accomplishes nothing. Beyond someone saying “We’re going to SOMETHING about this…. see?”
Not only is Napolitano not ready for Prime Time….. she’s not ready for Jewelery Hour on QVC.
Like nearly all of Omaba’s appointments, she is incompetent and/or a radical ideologue. She has precisely no skills appropriate to her current appointment. She is therefore putting American lives at risk. She needs to go.
This is what I posted on the Tammy Bruce website:
The more I hear from this regime – I refuse to call them an “administration” – the more true it becomes.
It helps settle the confusion that politicians have. They don’t know what to do, so they push some new regulation, however worthless, to show the public that they are doing something. Politicians do this all the time, when they can’t figure out how to fix something; usually higher taxes. Now, they can state, “We did something”.
Facts, information, databases, lists…
All these are tools to be used. It takes initiative and/or common sense to utilize them. Selective enforcement does not work (see immigration policies – the laws are written, just not comprehensively enforced).
Sometimes it feels like the U.S. has the fastest receivers, the strongest front line, the greatest running back…but can’t score because we keep blindfolding our quarterback.
Errah,
I see the light and damn is it hot!
Errah, the stay seated for the last hour is so terrorist can devote their full attention to making their bomb active and not get disrupted by passers by.
I’d add that many times they do know what to do, they just refuse to do the right thing, e.g., profiling, watch lists, intelligence, etc., for political reasons. Don’t want to offend someone who might have campaign $$$ or bring in the votes after the issue has died down. Better to pretend to do something pointless than be successful and offend one’s base. Sickening, but often true.
As another poster pointed out, sometimes just enforcing existing laws is enough to solve the problem, if they really wanted to solve it.
It’s actually easier to make new laws than it is to enforce existing ones.
She’s not just a clown.
She is a bold, cold liar.
And she’s not working for America’s interests.
Politically speaking, I agree. No consequences for making the law. It’s the enforcers that take the heat, from both ends these days. But it’s pointless to keep making laws w/no intention of enforcement. As has been said, it just gives the illusion of doing something till the sitch passes.
The job of president wasn’t thrust upon him – he campaigned for it – knowing full and well all the problems he would inherit! And now, for him to continuously blame the prior administration for his own failings as C&C just makes him look even more ineffectual!
The system worked.
The recession is over.
This bill will not add a dime to the federal deficit.
The American people support health care reform.
The stimulus has worked.
The war is lost.
The debate on global warming is over.
The hacked e-mails are all over 10 years old.
The American people don’t care about pork laden bills.
I don’t know how my name got on the 9-11 truther petition.
Bribes for health care votes are just “small things”.
The economic crisis is 100% the fault of the Bush administration.
I am a post-partisan president.
I am a post racial president.
The police acted “stupidly”.
Religion had nothing to do with the Fort Hood massacre.
The sky is green.
The earth is flat.
The check is in the mail.
Dont forget “Of course I’ll still respect you in the morning!”
Absolutely, and an accurate statement of what the Obama administration and the warped socialist Congress is doing to all of us during the night.
Ah, but then it is not pointless. Creating the illusion is the point.
Democrats are mentally diseased. All they want is an illusion. It makes them feel good.
I’ve got a flaming lib family member who, if asked,would tell you they are “independent.” Only in their mind. I’ve never seen anyone so sold out to the Democrat party line. Of course they voted for Obama.
Now, if only she’ll concede her feckless dereliction of duty and resign.
Incompetent nincompoops in government never resign. They can never admit they’re incompetent nincompoops.
That’s pretty cruel.
Our President is tired. He has worked so hard for us this year.
I am sure our service people who are deployed and working 18 hour days, 7 days a week and living on MRE’s feel real sympathy for their Commander in Chief.
I read another article like that one and I will lose my lunch.