The Belgravia Dispatch details the backtracking regarding the latest terrorist plans, and predictably, the NY Times is leaving a trail of slime. Equally predictable, some fools are still insisting that the terror alerts were released for political gain. These younger members of the Democratic party are true believers- check out this vile ‘win-win’ scenario for Democrats:
Democrats aren’t wrong about Bush politicizing terrorism warnings. But if a terrorist attack happens on American soil, whether Democrats were right or wrong to doubt the terror warning, Bush becomes responsible. Right now, Democrats are talking about how Bush handles the preparation for potential terrorist attacks. If one gets pulled off, it doesn’t really matter what Democrats said about the warnings, because Bush would have failed. Yes, Democrats are going to criticize him, especially when he does things that are worth criticism.
Isn’t that a gem?
Democrats aren’t wrong about Bush politicizing terrorism warnings.
Even though it has been proven to such a degree that they are, in fact, wrong, and the adminstration has been acting responsibly regarding the new threat information.
But if a terrorist attack happens on American soil, whether Democrats were right or wrong to doubt the terror warning, Bush becomes responsible.
Even if we are wrong- IT’S STILL A WIN! Depsite our actively working against the administration, if we get hit before the election, we can pin it on Bush!
If one gets pulled off, it doesn’t really matter what Democrats said about the warnings, because Bush would have failed.
Despite our doing everything we can to work against him, we can pin any tragedy on Bush. And, it doesn’ matter what we said!
Yes, Democrats are going to criticize him, especially when he does things that are worth criticism.
Even, as Jesse has ably proven, when there is absolutely no reason to criticze them at all.
Personally, I am going to take Jesse’s advice:
…it doesn’t really matter what Democrats said about the warnings.
It really doesn’t matter what they say- theyhave proven they will do and say anything to win. As Jesse seems to suggest, we should probably just start ignoring them, which would be easy if they were not so vile.
Ripper
We can only safely ignore them after we find a voting system that would exclude the evil.
Tyler
Yesterday I wrote a brief post about the NYT article on the President’s call for an Intelligence Czar… same sort of nonsense. It’s amazing to me what passes for journalism anymore
Norah
Excuse me, remind me how it’s been “proven” that the terror alarm doesn’t go off whenever Bush needs some extra-special attention?
John Cole
Norah-
Are you actually asserting that the terror levels were recently raised for political purposes? I would recommend that you read- well, hell, read a newspaper. If you are still disillusioned, try the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the NY Times- both of them issue mea culpas, although snide and self-serving.
If you are talking about an abstract or general notion that the terror levels are in general manipulated to serve the president’s political agenda, that is nothing more than a baseless accusation that can not be proven. Which is probably why the Democrats are so fond of repeating such scurrilous charges.