via Blake, Janet comes in to end 2009 with a statement about the Christmas Day terrorist attempt so fatuous …
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the system worked.”
… one can almost feel IQ points being peeled away by reading it.
How many non-Rotarian swallows does it take to make an Al Qaeda summer?
Ace gives The System a B+
Eric Scheie calls The System Egalitarianism for the asses
I watched her on three shows and each time she was more annoying, maddening and absurd than the pevious appearance. It is her basic position that the “system worked” because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was “foiled” by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically.
Supposedly Napolitano is trotting across the Sunday shows as [so far silent] Obama’s mouthpiece. However, with the growing backlash to her obvious incompetence, how soon, once Barry gets off the Hawaiian golf links, will he toss Janet under the bus?
We need to start a pool.
Comment by Pablo on 12/27 @ 6:19 pm #
Expect dithering. Late Friday, early Saturday. Though it could be late Thursday, given the holiday.
Eh. I’ll call Friday.
Comment by geoffb on 12/27 @ 6:27 pm #
If you spend years culling the herd of all signs of intelligence, eventually you end up with the Obama administration. That barrel bottom is getting scraped pretty thin now.
Comment by serr8d on 12/27 @ 6:33 pm #
Janet Reno, Janet Napolitano. The similarities boggle the mind.
I’ll bet Rahm Emmanuel goes first.
Comment by Duke Lowell on 12/27 @ 6:34 pm #
How about the 12th of never. Czars are one thing, cabinet secretaries are quite another. My bet is that this is swept under the rug. MSM will circle the wagons shortly.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 6:49 pm #
Head on a pike. Tomorrow. Demand, not bet.
Comment by Joe on 12/27 @ 6:51 pm #
Obama will sacrifice Janet to protect himself. She is going under the bus.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 6:53 pm #
The system worked? The Obama system is to pray for faulty detonators and brave civilians sitting nearby? Good Allah.
Comment by Blake on 12/27 @ 7:02 pm #
Three months or so before the Afghanistan plan is implemented.
6 months before Reno, er, Napolitano is gone.
Comment by Matt on 12/27 @ 7:02 pm #
I heard Obama was uncover on that flight and in fact, he took the (alleged) foreign terrorist into custody, while protecting said (alleged) foreign terrorist’s rights under the American Constitution.
Obama sweats patriotism imho.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 7:04 pm #
Oh please Matt. Everybody knows Obama doesn’t sweat!
Comment by Matt on 12/27 @ 7:04 pm #
sigh should have been “undercover” as opposed to “uncovered”. “Uncovered” would have been during the Clinton presidency.
Comment by Dana on 12/27 @ 7:07 pm #
Either tomorrow around 11:00 AM EST, or she survives. Remember, the lovely Miss Napolitano is a member of not one but two Accredited Victim Groups, so maybe she can’t be fired for mere incompetence.
Comment by Matt on 12/27 @ 7:07 pm #
He “glistens” patriotism. Or maybe “oozes patriotism”. I’m open to suggestion.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 7:08 pm #
She and Baracky do not have the skill sets to deal with man-caused disasters. They are loathesome creatures, like Emila.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 7:09 pm #
How about exhales? Expires just seems too violenty somehow.
Comment by No one you know on 12/27 @ 7:12 pm #
Matt et al, I think the word you’re looking for is “exudes.” On topic, can you believe this freakin’ cow?
Comment by Dana on 12/27 @ 7:13 pm #
JD wrote:
I beg to differ! They’re going to take on and solve man-made global warming, aren’t they? And thus far, they’ve been successful enough to get Washington buried in a foot of snow, so it seems to be working.
Comment by Duke Lowell on 12/27 @ 7:14 pm #
The way I heard it was that Barcky caused the detonator
To malfunction with his mind. In his sleep! Is there anything Captain Wonderful can’t do?
Comment by Americaneocon on 12/27 @ 7:15 pm #
American Power tracked-back with, “Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: ‘The System Worked’”.
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Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 12/27 @ 7:32 pm #
Whether or not the tango had an AQ card is of interest mostly to Homeland Security–he might be a good intel source, if he was hooked up. As for the harm he tried to cause us, it doesn’t matter either way–he’s a jihadist.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 7:44 pm #
“…he’s a jihadist.”
And as such should be headed to Gitmo for a serious talking to as we speak. But oh no. Not with this crew he won’t. Fuckers.
Comment by Abe Froman on 12/27 @ 7:49 pm #
Firing these dirty fucktards scarcely matters when they all come out of the same Playdoh factory. Except instead of dough the’re made of poop. I suppose the plus side is while we’d be losing a lesbian retard we’d maybe gain the first near-sighted Mayasian dwarf in the cabinet. So there’s that to hope for.
Comment by Abe Froman on 12/27 @ 7:50 pm #
um, Malaysian.
Comment by Carin on 12/27 @ 7:56 pm #
Obama’s golfing in order to CALM us all.
Comment by AJB on 12/27 @ 8:00 pm #
And as such should be headed to Gitmo for a serious talking to as we speak. But oh no. Not with this crew he won’t. Fuckers.
Coerced evidence has a long <a href=”track record of only being reliable in getting excuses to bomb countries with brown people in them. Other than that, it doesn’t really do much. But I guess people like you wouldn’t mind since that is what you want after all.
Besides, Obama has been bombing Yemen. What are you angry about exactly?
Comment by newrouter on 12/27 @ 8:05 pm #
how do you “pivot” to “jobs and the economy” after 2 terrorist attacks?
laughing all the way to the cemetery
Comment by great mencken's ghost on 12/27 @ 8:06 pm #
“Comment by Matt on 12/27 @ 7:07 pm #
He “glistens” patriotism. Or maybe “oozes patriotism”. I’m open to suggestion.”
Men sweat. Women “glow”.
Obaminous freaking “radiates.”
Comment by great mencken's ghost on 12/27 @ 8:07 pm #
Obaminous.
I had no idea I typed that. Freaking Chivas.
But I love it.
Comment by Rich Cox on 12/27 @ 8:16 pm #
@21 Sanity:
1) I am sure that there has already been a cut-out. There may have even been heads that literally rolled.
2) Sleep well tonight. You know that based on their MO this was not the first time they flew with this set-up. They really like to ops check and dry-run. Already a give that the D-Day was chosen for maximum effect. Remember when holidays meant an INCREASE in security by default?
Comment by geoffb on 12/27 @ 8:24 pm #
Well sdferr, AJB just said you want to torture little brown people in order to find justifications to bomb them, and that you are incapable of seeing the righteous truth as told by the NY Times, McClatchy, and Newsweek those unimpeachable sources.
That kind of recommendation from AJB means you must be one fine fella, a hell of a stand-up guy and smart as a whip. One must maintain the best-est of enemies, they do right by ya, though they know it not.
Comment by gus on 12/27 @ 8:26 pm #
You know, while we have double digit unemployment, 2 wars, Jihadists trying to blow up our airplanes, and Muzztard Majors murdering our soldier. While we have TRILLLLIONS in new deficits and as the Libs try to spend more. What does our LEADER do? He goes to Copenhagen to shit on us, he goes to Oslo to praise himself and he goes to Hawaii to play some more golf.
This guy is a total fuck up.
Comment by gus on 12/27 @ 8:30 pm #
Pivot to a jobs economy???? Who in Obama’s administation has ever provided anyone else a job?
Comment by gus on 12/27 @ 8:32 pm #
From hence, the Jihadist in Detroit will be known as RICHARD BURNS.
His friends dall hin DICK BURNS.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 8:41 pm #
You’ve some wisdom, Geoff.
One might almost say that AJB thinks sdferr is dangerous. Should maybe be locked away. Possibly questioned to find out if he knows other dangerous people.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 8:42 pm #
I am dangerous bh. I make a mean pot-o-beans.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 8:43 pm #
Oh, and I fart in AJB’s general direction.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 8:44 pm #
I like it. We say women are luminous when they have a child in the womb. Maybe we should say the ‘bots are Obaminous when they have a little Barry homunculus in their head.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 8:47 pm #
Okay, as that was a weird reference to a weird idea, here’s a link.
I’m still punchy from today’s football.
Comment by MarkJ on 12/27 @ 8:54 pm #
We’ll know the “plus-sized diva” is singing when Obama ruefully intones, “This in not the Janet Napolitano I knew….”
The only real mystery is how Napolitano will find out she’s been fired. My money says her “official notification” will come in the form of a Washington Post morning headline screaming out over her skim-milk latte and fat-free cranberry muffin.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 12/27 @ 8:56 pm #
Yeah, “we need to start a pool”, a very big pool filled with something extra special for these Turkeys – something in which to deep fry them? I’ve never tried deep frying Tukeys but since I’m already salivating for some strange reason, why not?
mmm mmm mmmmmmmm
My bet, Janet will not be fired. The Obama adm. doesn’t know enough to even care. The Progg Fantasyland rules all dontcha know!
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 12/27 @ 9:03 pm #
Coerced evidence has a long <a href=”track record of only being reliable in getting excuses to bomb countries with brown people in them.
Bomb them? I’d trade 1000 of you straight up for 100,000 of “the brown people” anytime, like right now. Hugo Chavez, I’m sure, would also be pleased.
Comment by Blake on 12/27 @ 9:03 pm #
AJB,
Your racism is showing.
I didn’t know it made a difference what color people are when bombs are being dropped.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 9:12 pm #
The. system. worked.
Let that sink in a little bit.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 12/27 @ 9:13 pm #
Plus, AJB you amnestic moron, Barry said that “torture” works. It’s just that ~”we can get the same info by other means”, you know, like getting Islamofascists, Iranians, and Russians to cooperate by apology tours and other unilateral gestures of weakness – to which they have all obviously given their answers, continuing on in like manner no doubt.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 9:16 pm #
AJB is a parody of a moonbat.
Comment by Squid on 12/27 @ 9:23 pm #
Interrogation of operatives works just fine. I have several dozen dead AQ middle managers what say so.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 12/27 @ 9:25 pm #
You know that based on their MO this was not the first time they flew with this set-up. They really like to ops check and dry-run.
“Strongly agree”, Rich. And my sister just told me she read an article claiming that 12/32 of the attempted
criminalterrorist attacks since 9/11 have occurred within the past year.My loins already be girded without needing Joe Biden, who didn’t know exactly what he meant anyway but does deserve some progg cred for getting at least something right, eh? Even if he hasn’t yet reached stopped clock status.
Comment by dicentra on 12/27 @ 9:33 pm #
Please note the following:
Coerced evidence has a long track record of only being reliable in getting excuses to bomb countries with brown people in them.
Clicked the “long” link, to McClatchy (motto: “Truth to Power” [I kid you not]), which asserts:
Nor were any ever asserted. The primary justification of the Iraq invasion was outlined first in 1998 in the Iraq Liberation Act then reasserted in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in 2002. Neither asserted operational links between Al Qaeda and Saddam, although the presence of Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq (who were unmolested by Saddam) was noted.
The primary justification for invasion that was presented to the U.N. by Colin Powell was WMD. Go back to Bush’s speeches on whitehouse.gov. He never alleged operational ties or links. I do remember, however, the lame whining by the MSM that Bush mentioned Al Qaeda and Iraq in the same paragraph sometimes; apparently, they’re teaching journalists that two terms in spatio-temporal proximity equals a causal relationship (or any relationship you want to imagine) regardless of the intervening parts of speech that would have made any relationship (or lack thereof) explicit.
Our Friend further cites the NYT that some dude alleged Al Qaeda/Saddam ties during rendition in order to avert further harsh interrogation, then later recanted. The NYT also alleges that this dude’s false testimony was instrumental in the decision to invade Iraq.
However, the official documents that Congress ratified made no such mention of al Qaeda/Saddam ties; ergo, the instrumentality of that false information is irrelevant. Evidently, there were plenty of other legitimate reasons to take out Saddam and install a democracy. And had been for a long time.
Other than that, it doesn’t really do much.
Except make KSM cry like a baby and sing like a bird, enabling us to break up dozens of terrorist plots before they occurred.
But I guess people like you wouldn’t mind since that is what you want after all.
I’m trying to figure out what people like YOU want, after all. I’m fairly sure you don’t want us to take a “nuke ‘em from orbit, just to be sure” strategy — you know, turing the desert into a sheet of glass.
You wouldn’t want lesser efforts like that, either: firebombing all of Mesopotamia into oblivion, kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out.
So what does that leave? Picking apart the terrorist networks with tweezers, hoping to kill the actual bad guys instead of bystanders.
Cutting off their finances is one good bloodless way to bust them up — but then the NYT went ahead and aired that out, hampering the effort. Listening in on their phone conversations to see who is in on the plots and who is not is also bloodless — but the Left pitches a fit about “wiretapping” and swoons over seeing their right to discuss detonators with Abdul in Waziristan infringed upon.
The other part? Capture those we can and squeeze them for information, which leads to busting up their operations. Also relatively bloodless (unless you count nosebleeds and fat lips), and you’ve just demonstrated why THAT’S not kosher either.
Yes, AJB, we LIVE to bomb brown people. That’s what we yearn for. We have NO desire to let Muslims live in peace because — well, that BROWNNESS — which makes us loose bowel control at just the thought of it.
Go be incoherent elsewhere, but thanks for the opportunity for me to get a refresher on 7-year-old history.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 9:34 pm #
Okay, this is from left field, but hear me out. Only
stupidsuggestible people can be hypnotized.Has anyone tested to see if that can be broken down along partisan lines?
While I’m tossing stuff out from left field, I’ll continue. If you take memetics and visualize it with the homunculus framing, it comes down to what little man can win in the fight held in your head. The lefties would retort that the man-in-the-sky little man wins in our collective heads. But, when you think about it, the man-in-the-sky is an all-time pound for pound champion. Their little men, on the other hand, are regularly beaten by Captain Planet and Karl Marx.
In summary, if I was a hypnotist, I’d check voter registrations. And if I was a little meme warrior, I’d want to duke it out where Gaia held the belt.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 9:34 pm #
This is protein wisdom after all.
Comment by geoffb on 12/27 @ 9:40 pm #
So we have bought protection by Murphy and managed to get the gremlins to work for us on occasion too? Marvy.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 9:50 pm #
Did you trip over a bottle of absinthe while you were out, bh?
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 9:54 pm #
It was the oddest thing, JD. When I tripped over it, the bottle accidentally fell into my mouth. Damn green fairies.
I denounce myself accordingly.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 10:00 pm #
It is better than tripping and getting your dick stuck in a goat, like AJB.
Comment by Rock on 12/27 @ 10:00 pm #
This has to go down as one of the dumbest statements of this decade. Nightmares revolve around, oh no I didn’t just say that. Or maybe Bush said it, or it was taken out of context, oh he$$ blame it on the right.
Comment by goat on 12/27 @ 10:04 pm #
Hey, he kept giving my wine coolers. Not my fault.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 10:05 pm #
Did you ever see the drawing of the sensory map scaled homunculus bh? He’s very cool (and explains foot fetishes too).
Comment by goat on 12/27 @ 10:05 pm #
my=me
Hey, I’m a goat. You should just be impressed that I can type.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 10:09 pm #
Yeah, I know what you’re talking about, sdferr. Big hands and big feet. Surprised people don’t have more hand fetishes.
Ever notice those representations are often bowdlerized? Obvious answer: because the homunculus actually looks like that old Roman Priapus graffiti.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 10:11 pm #
Again, this is protein wisdom after all.
Denounced.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 10:12 pm #
The feet are jammed up against the genitals though, as I remember it, kinda out of place spatially, I think, right?
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 10:13 pm #
Huge lips and genitalia too, I ought to have added.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 10:14 pm #
You know what they say about people with big hands and big feet?
Big gloves and big socks.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 10:15 pm #
The Chinese agree, in their fashion.
Ever ask an acupuncturist for a “happy ending”? Me neither. But, then, I’ve never gone to an acupuncturist.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 10:16 pm #
Okay, it’s often said but never meant.
However, this time? LOL.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 10:17 pm #
Acupuncturist + happyending = does not compute
needledicks, now I’ve heard of those before. Dick needles, not so much.
Comment by JD on 12/27 @ 10:18 pm #
Definitely absinthe, and definitely laugh out loud funny.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 10:20 pm #
Their idea (one of their thousands) is that the homunculus is mapped on the foot. Hence, happy ending is needle foot. Probably based on where the toes sometimes curl.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 10:22 pm #
If this absinthe was any good, I’d be able to figure out how all this was on topic.
Janet N. looks like a foot and she feels like needles in the dick? Yeah, that works.
Comment by goat on 12/27 @ 10:35 pm #
I gave AJB a fake number in the morning.
That guy has issues.
Comment by geoffb on 12/27 @ 10:58 pm #
Old reflex, don’t want to fall out of the tree when every thing else gets forgotten.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 11:00 pm #
And, again, LOL.
Comment by geoffb on 12/27 @ 11:00 pm #
That guy in the head at the controls just reminds me of anime like Evangelion or Gundam.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 11:03 pm #
When I saw it in Men in Black, Geoff, I thought to myself, “Do they mean that in the old sense? That we’re an alien in our own mind?”
Probably not. I overthink shit.
Comment by sdferr on 12/27 @ 11:05 pm #
MiB didn’t bother to open up the homunculus head though, did it?
No.
It just left the question hanging there, the bastards.
Comment by dicentra on 12/27 @ 11:07 pm #
I first encountered “homunculus” in Tristram Shandy and he was musing how they prolly all needed baptism in situ and further than that would be unseemly for me to remember, much less repeat.
Comment by geoffb on 12/27 @ 11:08 pm #
Absinthe-minded methinks.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 11:14 pm #
Hehs and LOLs all around.
Okay, this is the most learned cesspool, in like, evah.
Without checking, which I can’t, as it’s not in my library, I assume dicentra refers to the little men who travel by submarine. That’s older for the homunculus idea, I think.
Comment by bh on 12/27 @ 11:24 pm #
And, as it’s now obvious, I’ll admit that was my hidden meaning with comment #38. Vulgar? Yes.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 12/28 @ 2:36 am #
Huge lips and genitalia too, I ought to have added.
And tongues bigger than genitalia, especially in
womenProggs. Some parts of that might be lies.Comment by EJ D on 12/28 @ 6:13 am #
lol, how many here thought the other Janet was going to be fired after Waco? Or Elian?
Besides, who cares if she gets canned, they’ll just hire Janet X to replace her. WTF is up with the all the Janet’s lately anyways?
Comment by Pablo on 12/28 @ 7:08 am #
This is the moron that likes to insist that DHS is primarily a first responder outfit. That would be the DHS that includes the Secret Service, Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and TSA. This bint makes Janet Reno look like Elliot Ness.
Comment by Pablo on 12/28 @ 7:57 am #
“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 had such ties. What we’re focused on is making sure that the air environment remains safe, that people are confident when they travel. One thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here.”
Janet Napolitano responding to a question about Mutallab’s claimed AQ connections, 12/27/09
“No Secretary of Homeland Security would sit here and say that a system worked prior to this incident which allowed this individual to get on this plane… We need to say, look, this individual was allowed to get on this plane with that material. That should not have happened”
Janet Napolitano trying to extinguish the fire in her pants, 12/28/2009
Comment by The Federal Government on 12/28 @ 8:30 am #
Announcement Form: bb-3604-r29-l (standard)
Dated: 12/28/2009
From the Assistant of the Deputy Administrative Assistant to the Auxiliary Adjunct Interim Office of the Senior Legislative Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures (pays me 175k per year with benefits even if I never show up).
Taxable Entities:
This post and all of your responses are based on the faulty assumption that the Whitehouse cares what you insolent serfs think.
Now back to work, cretins!
Sincerely,
The Federal Government
Working for YOU!
Comment by Pablo on 12/28 @ 8:32 am #
I just wish you had told us that the system worked on 9/10, Condi. And that you were in charge of our security apparatus.
Do you never weary of your moonbat talking points?
Comment by SDN on 12/28 @ 8:33 am #
Now the system doesn’t work.
Did she get whiplash with that walkback?
Comment by Pablo on 12/28 @ 8:35 am #
Erm, make that 9/12.
This is not an indication of a larger plot. Repeat, there are no indications of a wider plot. Just a lone wolf with a crispy pecker, folks. Move along now.
Comment by The Federal Government on 12/28 @ 8:44 am #
Announcement Form: bb-3604-z56-2-m (axial)
Dated: 12/28/2009
From the Assistant of the Deputy Administrative Assistant to the Auxiliary Adjunct Interim Office of the Senior Legislative Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures (pays me 175k per year with benefits even if I never show up).
Taxable Entities:
I will be out of the office on sabbatical in North Korea to study some innovative new methods of serf control through authority-centric food distribution.
Cell phone service is spotty due to the oppression by the American capitalist hegemony that forms the basis of the Axis of Injustice, so please don’t call my Blackberry. If it is an emergency, I can be reached at Kim Jong Ill’s Imperial People’s Palace.
Happy Kwaanza!
Sincerely,
The Federal Government
Working for YOU!
Comment by The Federal Government on 12/28 @ 9:00 am #
Announcement Form: booty-call-z56-2-m (mesohoni)
Dated: 12/28/2009
From the Assistant of the Deputy Administrative Assistant to the Auxiliary Adjunct Interim Office of the Senior Legislative Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures (pays me 175k per year with benefits even if I never show up).
Taxable Entity Condi:
I don’t know if you remember me, we met at the annual Pol Pot Killing Fields mixer that the Soros Foundation for Individual Oppression threw at Columbia.
Anyway, there’s a seat available on the junket to North Korea, and I thought you might like to see how your totalitarian beliefs pan out when applied to an entire country.
You don’t get squemish around emaciated people in concentration camps, do you?
Of course you don’t! call me!
Happy Kwaanza!
Sincerely,
The Federal Government
Working for YOU!
Comment by LTC John on 12/28 @ 9:04 am #
If Robert Gibbs is still employed, then Sec. Napolitano will stay foreveah. There is no competency requirement for any position anymore, in this WH.
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Comment by Off with her head on 12/28 @ 9:28 am #
This is the second terror attack while Obama is occupying the presidency. Our country becomes less safe everyday.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 12/28 @ 9:31 am #
It seems that way to you becasue you don’t know what torture is or how interrogation works.
No. Saudi Arabia is.
Comment by B Moe on 12/28 @ 10:20 am #
That last link of AJBs is hilarious.
Comment by Makewi on 12/28 @ 12:01 pm #
Would this count as another foreign diplomacy win for Obama, considering the Dutch did such a bang up job keeping bombs off US bound planes?
Comment by geoffb on 12/28 @ 12:06 pm #
Competence is not required, they are the flak catchers. The magician’s moving/waving hand. They only need to be capable of babbling on and on and on and on…
The competent ones are kept unknown because, what they are competently doing, is not for public consumption until the product is in place to where it cannot be dislodged or undone. They are the hand you don’t see.
Comment by happyfeet on 12/28 @ 12:23 pm #
I accept that there’s a gross and flagrant double standard but exactly how does the media want us to evaluate the little president man and his fatuous inept hard-to-look-at dykey minions?
NPR should explain more better so we can follow along at home.
Comment by Blake on 12/28 @ 2:07 pm #
“NPR should explain more better so we can follow along at home.”
Classic.
Although, happyfeets, perhaps you’re looking at it wrong. We’re supposed to evaluate the president against the ineptitude of his minions. President Obama hired these zeroes in order to make himself look good. Unfortunately, the President seems to have forgotten one minor detail: He hired these idiots.
Comment by Ratso on 12/28 @ 3:39 pm #
Yeah. “We join the world in condemning….” Because leading the world in condemning…. that would be derisive, even dismissive, maybe.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 12/28 @ 3:41 pm #
Unfortunately, the President seems to have forgotten one minor detail: He hired these idiots.
“Overarching” point of order: Obama “has said” that his vetters vet everyone. And that thinking the vetters should be vetted is absurdly funny, I quess because it leads to a hopeless infinite regress instead of to “transformational” progress. In which case Obama is completely justified to just pull them and everyone else he hires out of his ass, much like he did with his own mind and which explains why everyone up there “looks alike” to racists like you.
I will now respond to your death threat…
Comment by happyfeet on 12/28 @ 5:01 pm #
He does have pretty crappy minions, Blake. The doogie howser looking tool at Treasury is the most spectacular douchebag to be in a cabinet position ever in history I think.
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Comment by it's ok if you're a republican on 12/28 @ 6:08 pm #
Said Ali al-Shihri, released from GITMO in 2007, has resurfaced as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch.
President Bush released Said Ali al-Shihri.
Said Ali al-Shihri is now plotting attacks from Yemen.
It’s all Janet Napolitano’s fault.
Comment by JD on 12/28 @ 8:04 pm #
Another mendoucheous troll.
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[...] who hasn’t shown an ounce of competence since she assumed control of DHS.Darlene thinks there’s a resignation coming in the near future. I don’t see it happening. President Obama has bigger fish to fry than homeland security [...]