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Report: WH in full CYA/BDS mode over Christmas attack.

Moe_Lane — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:02:49 +0000

A quick survey of priorities:

In 2001, the American government’s response to a successful series of terrorist attacks was to look outwards to see who to hit for this*.
In 2009, the American government’s response to an only-because-we-got-lucky unsuccessful terrorist attack was to look inwards to see who to blame for this. (H/T: Nice Deb)

I think that, all things considered, I prefer the first approach.

Moe Lane

*To somewhat purify the Onion’s point.

Crossposted to RedState.

‘Regime,’ is it?

Moe_Lane — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:43:34 +0000

Slapdash, or scaredy-cat? Does it matter?

The lack of self-respect in the Obama administration astounds me, sometimes. From the (probably-now abortive) pushback on the call to shut down repatriating AQ terrorists to Yemen:

“I am aware of a lot of people pointing back at the way the transfers were handled under the Bush administration that apparently they have some concerns about that,” said the official, who had not seen the senators’ letter. “I didn’t hear many of those concerns at the time, but there were obviously hundreds and hundreds of detainees that were transferred under the old regime.”

The official hadn’t also seen Sen. Feinstein’s (D) own shared concern about said repatriation, which as Ed Morrissey notes is a serious problem for the drive to close Gitmo. But never mind that, right now: what gives with all the unforced errors? I mean, if this was an unintentional attempt to give offense, it’s pretty sloppy thinking; and if it was intentional, well, way to go with putting words in the administration’s mouth there, Sparky. A true progressive would have had the elementary courage to put his or her Bush Derangement Syndrome on the record.

Well, either way I can’t say that I’m surprised.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Andrew Breitbart needs to take his BDS metastasis article…

Moe_Lane — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:59:46 +0000

(via Dana Loesch) …all the way to its logical conclusion. I pretty much agree with the main point of Andrew’s article (‘George W. Bush-by-proxy syndrome‘): with President Bush’s leaving the public stage, the people that have spent the last eight years irrationally hating and fearing the man have had to cast their nets wider and wider to find a suitable replacement for their urges. But where he’s wrong is that there’s actually one individual left with which to draw BDS sufferers ire, and in some ways he’s the best choice of all: President Barack Obama.

No, really. One of the little things that we don’t really talk about in the 2008 election is how progressive Democrats, smarting over being beaten consistently for eight years by that man, participated in the greatest If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em in history. Their only problem? They didn’t actually go out and find a clone of Bush; they went out and found a clone of the Bush that they had constructed in their heads*. It was sort of a bizarre Cargo Cult exercise, in other words; and the Democrats merely had the good (or so it seemed) luck to have found a clone with the added ability to read a scripted speech well. The strain that progressives are having in dealing with that without dealing with that has merely gotten more and more entertaining since the election.

September may be much more interesting than even August.

Moe Lane

*I expect a certain amount of spluttering over that (which means, of course, that I’ll get none, or at least none on the record).

Crossposted to RedState.