New Years Joke

[sfc_oliver]

Plain and simple, P C must go.

[AllanY2525]

I agree... the shortcomings, oversights, flaws, lack of enough action to improve
our security systems and procedures and outright failures across the board
are a totally bipartison catastrophe - and everyone in both parties shares the blame
to one extent or another.....

That being said, the American people have no idea how many bad guys the
goverment has actually caught and stopped before they could carry out
acts of terrorism because that information is classified.

[iwasthere]

Here's a real joke to start out the New Year.

The Republicans are jumping on the Christmas Panty Bomber and the Fort Hood killer to show how the Democrats are weak on national security going into the 2010 election cycle.

"Since before Obama was sworn into office, Republicans have been building a case that he is weak on national security, and in the wake of the intelligence and security failures that led to last week's incident, they think that narrative might stick. Congressional Republicans and GOP pollsters said they believe the administration's response to the failed attack on a Detroit-bound plane -- along with Obama's decisions on the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the intelligence lapses connected to November's massacre at Fort Hood, Tex. -- damage the Democratic brand."
[Washington Post – 12/30/09]

"The Republican strategy is further complicated by the fact that the nation's counterterrorism intelligence and security procedures were created after Sept. 11, 2001, by Bush and congressional Republicans. Current watch-list systems were put in place years ago and have not changed. In addition, the former Guantanamo Bay detainees who showed up in the al-Qaeda leadership in Yemen were released by Bush two years ago."
[Ibid]

"Let us be clear: the system did not work. It is disturbing that Janet Napolitano, the secretary for homeland security, seemed to suggest, even briefly, that it had. It is unseemly that so many Republicans are rushing to make partisan hay out of the near disaster. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama did a better job, acknowledging what he called a "systemic failure" in the nation's security apparatus and saying he would "insist on accountability at every level."
Everybody bears responsibility: the Bush administration for not connecting the dots before Sept. 11 and not doing enough in the seven years after to rationalize and improve homeland security; the Congress, under both parties, for blocking necessary changes and failing to demand others; the Obama administration, which has shown little interest until now in reforming what is clearly an inadequate security system."
[New York Times - 12/30/09]

Politicians have short memories or they take us for blame fools!

There isn't a one of them that's worth their weight in cow patties, not a one.

i could not have said that any better than towntalk's posting.

[Towntalk]

Here's a real joke to start out the New Year.

The Republicans are jumping on the Christmas Panty Bomber and the Fort Hood killer to show how the Democrats are weak on national security going into the 2010 election cycle.

"Since before Obama was sworn into office, Republicans have been building a case that he is weak on national security, and in the wake of the intelligence and security failures that led to last week's incident, they think that narrative might stick. Congressional Republicans and GOP pollsters said they believe the administration's response to the failed attack on a Detroit-bound plane -- along with Obama's decisions on the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the intelligence lapses connected to November's massacre at Fort Hood, Tex. -- damage the Democratic brand."
[Washington Post – 12/30/09]

"The Republican strategy is further complicated by the fact that the nation's counterterrorism intelligence and security procedures were created after Sept. 11, 2001, by Bush and congressional Republicans. Current watch-list systems were put in place years ago and have not changed. In addition, the former Guantanamo Bay detainees who showed up in the al-Qaeda leadership in Yemen were released by Bush two years ago."
[Ibid]

"Let us be clear: the system did not work. It is disturbing that Janet Napolitano, the secretary for homeland security, seemed to suggest, even briefly, that it had. It is unseemly that so many Republicans are rushing to make partisan hay out of the near disaster. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama did a better job, acknowledging what he called a "systemic failure" in the nation's security apparatus and saying he would "insist on accountability at every level."
Everybody bears responsibility: the Bush administration for not connecting the dots before Sept. 11 and not doing enough in the seven years after to rationalize and improve homeland security; the Congress, under both parties, for blocking necessary changes and failing to demand others; the Obama administration, which has shown little interest until now in reforming what is clearly an inadequate security system."
[New York Times - 12/30/09]

Politicians have short memories or they take us for blame fools!

There isn't a one of them that's worth their weight in cow patties, not a one.