Stunner. Skittish Dem's Cut-&-Run From Obama's Failed National Security Policies
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 4:04 PM
What a shock. Dem’s get skittish. Leave Obama hanging.
The cut-and-run party is refusing to defend Obama’s failed national security policies.
The Plum Line reported.
Are Democrats so cowed by Republican attacks on Obama’s foreign policy that they’re unwilling to defend him?
It’s now been five days since the attempted bombing of Flight 253 in Detroit, and Congressional Democrats are still turning the other cheek to Republicans who are using the incident to attack Obama’s entire approach to national security.
At first, I thought this line of attack, pushed by Rep. Peter Hoekstra and Rep. Peter King, might fizzle out, but this is clearly not going away. Take South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint’s comments to Fox News yesterday, which were featured in this morning’s lead POLITICO article on the Republican response:
“[S]oft talk about engagement, closing Gitmo, these things are not going to appease the terrorists,” he said. “They’re going to keep coming after us, and we can’t have politics as usual in Washington, and I’m afraid that’s what we’ve got right now with airport security.”
Once again, these are not just complaints about the Homeland Security bureaucracy; Republicans are calling Obama, and his strategy, weak on terrorism. While Democrats have shown a wilingness to ding DeMint for putting a hold on Obama’s nominee to head the TSA, they have been completely silent in the face of these wider criticisms, even after the president articulated a defense of his foreign policy yesterday.
Too funny.
Who in their right mind would support Obama’s weak response to man-caused disasters?
From closing Gitmo, to moving terrorists to Illinois, to holding terror trials in New York City, to bowing to commies and regime leaders, Obama’s national security policies are an unavoidable disaster. Let’s hope he changes course before we get hit again by Al-Qaeda.
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Anonymous commented:
Speaking of which, what happened to all those trolls?
Dell commented:
“Let’s hope he changes course before we get hit again by Al-Qaeda.”
Uhhh, Jim…That’s now called a “Pivot”. It should read “Let’s hope he PIVOTS before we get hit again by Al-Qaeda”.
Changing the nomenclature is all part of the “change” we need now.
Kindly adjust your vocabulary accordingly.
We now resume our regularly scheduled programming.
Berto commented:
Re: cut and run.
Isn’t that trademarked by St. Ronald Reagan?
His cut and run from Beirut in 1983 has been cited repeatedly by AQ as the major show of weakness by the US in the last 30 years.
Let me know when you want to dig up Reagan’s body and spit on it. I’ll be there for you.
MVH commented:
When he crawled out of his hole in Hawaii, Obama called the attempt to blow up that airplane on Christmas an isolated incident. Then almost in the same breath, he said we are going to do everything to catch people who do this kind of thing.
Well, which it? An isolated incident or not?
olm commented:
There was a lib woman last night on BillO claiming that the system worked as JaNO said in this country and it failed in a foreign country, therefore there was no flip flop, she was right in both cases…………….
Imo, none of this crazy stuff coming out of this admin is worth defending.
wanumba commented:
Constantly telling the masses what to think..
“Are Dems so cowed by Republican attacks…”
So, strongly encouraging Democrats to continue to reject out of hand ANYTHING a Republican says, even if it’s correct.
The Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress do not know how to protect Americans from enemies foreign and domestic.
Epic Fail. Not hyperbole. Failure.
No one wants to die because of incompetence heightened by rigid idelogogical prejudices.
jim from cleveland commented:
As pointed out in a WSJ editorial yesterday, there have been more terrorist attempts on the U.S. in 2009 than in any of the years since 9/11. Rather than pacifying the worlds’ thugs with his talking cure, Obama has opened the door to challenges from all quarters — not only from al Qaeda but also from Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, etc.
By the way, where is the congenital liar? Does this country still have a secretary of state? Shouldn’t she be answering some tough questions?
Who beside the asskissers of the mainstream media can possibly believe that the world is better disposed toward the U.S. under our platitude-spouting blowhard-in-chief?
wanumba commented:
Where’s Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?
It’s as if the State Department doesn’t even exist.
olm commented:
What do you mean, where are they? They are tired and they need vacations and since these are not real threats they are still on vacation.
wanumba commented:
Hillary was sure adamant earlier this year that EVERYONE knew “You talkin’ to me? Huh? Huh? I’M the SECRETARY OF STATE, not my husband!!!”
Hellloooooooooo! Hillary, where ARE you?
Ladue Pundit commented:
Obama’s latest address blamed the “system of the last 4 years,” you know, Bush.
We had the AR Army Recruitment Center jihad murder in Aug., Ft. Hood jihadist massacre, the southern fried homegrown threat, videos of jihadist camps on US soil, and now this.
How many warnings does Napolitano need? Instead she is obsessed with white people who disagree with our imposter president.
These watch lists are idiotic. No one could watch as many people as those who present threats, and NO ONE IS WATCHING THEM.
Start with the ones who have no constitutional rights and get them out. And with all politics being local, if there’s a mosque going up, fight it. The Feds have no right to interfere with that.
We ALL must be citizen soldiers. Job one is sending this Nigerian package bomber to Gitmo, and keeping him out of the civil courts.
dj commented:
Ahh, Berto, Berto, Berto, as a historian I could just blow your ignorant little comment away but I won’t. Comments like yours makes me realize that it is your type of intellect that got Obama the presidency and into the troublesome waters we find our country in now. Not to mention that the story isn’t about physical withdrawal (as your example of Beirut) but about political withdrawal (Dems reluctance to defend).Please reread and get back to us. Thanks.
jerryl commented:
i dont think this clown of a president really cares remember his condemmin gof the freedom fighters in honduras not doing anything to help the freedom fighters in iran the list keeps growing and growing with this clow in charger and his band of dummies
olm commented:
bg, my son was trying that one on me last night about how all of this is our fault due to our repeated failures in the middle east, mostly conveniently under Repub presidents. It must be the new leftist line going through the high schools currently.
Callipygian1 commented:
Now is the time to heavily investigate Obama’s nominee and pillory Erroll Southers, even past his FBI censure… for instance, Unionizing the TSA would be a horrible event, especially since we all know how unions operate: they wait until the optimum time for disruption before staging their walkouts, slowdowns and strikes.
The world needs fewer unions and their goons, not more. The new head of the TSA should be anti-union.
Jean commented:
Berto | #4
We were not at war with Islamic Terrorists when Reagan was trying to win the Cold War, which was a much bigger threat at the time. Besides, if Carter had not betrayed the Shah of Iran by allowing the Ayatollah and the Iranian Revolution, the Beirut attack never would have happened.
Berto commented:
dj,
As a historian, you of all people, should know the Reagan Presidency is exactly the reason we find ourselves in the troublesome waters the country is in today.
I didn’t (and wouldn’t) vote for Obama. He hasn’t disappointed me, because I never expected much from him. Obama, like Reagan, has been a terrible President for the citizens of the USA.
Back to the point, the rap against Obama has been that he “wants to negotiate with terrorists” (like W did with the “Surge” in Iraq). I hardly find that to be “political withdrawal”.
Your mulligan for Reagan’s physical withdrawal from Beirut notwithstanding, would you support the invasion and occupation of foreign countries (whether they were complicit or not in these attacks), as his predecessor did, as a show of his eagerness in defending the US?
Before you answer, remember we attacked Iraq to show the world how strong and resolute we are as a nation, but all it showed was how weak we are militarily. (i.e. how weak our economic and military resources are in a fight against terrorists and insurgents).
Dave commented:
Unfortunately, Janet Incompetano did not come up with the mantra that “Everything is working fine” by herself — this was a message crafted by the mental giants in the White House (read: Axelrod, Emanuel, Gibbs, and maybe even Barack himself in between rounds of golf) – as Robert Gibbs parroted virtually the identical line in his Hawaii press conference on the same day – his comment has garnered a lot less attention. But make no mistake, both Gibbs and Janet Incompetano were simply reciting the lines given to them – and, as a result, President Zero will have to come up with another reason to fire Janet Reno’s lovechild – not that he already doesn’t have an abundance.
free` commented:
“even after the president articulated a defense of his foreign policy yesterday.” Uhm what defense was that? Blame Bush?
Taqiyy. commented:
We’ll see how this (R) line of attack goes.
One way it might: Republicans, minus any meaningful opposition from Democrats, calling Obama’s homeland security strategy “weak”, will get louder and louder in demanding that he DO something about it.
Then ObamaCo. will grin and say, “Okay! You asked for it. Just remember that.” Then watch the further ratcheting down of our freedom, and the implementation of all they’ve wanted to do since the 60′s. And we demanded it.
Oy to the vey.
Opus #6 commented:
They know they all have their hands in the cookie jar of our national treasury, with the health care takeover and stimulus payoffs. Obama has used up his political capital with these folks and they are thinking survival, only.
C-Christian Soldier commented:
we have the republican -LIGHT crowd now>>>
there is a democrat -LIGHT crowd!?!!!
‘COOL’
C-CS
Palinfan commented:
@Olm – send your son to the website called Jihadwatch or http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Those two sites are excellent learning tools for confused Liberal/Marxists. If they can’t convince him, nothing can.
exceller commented:
haha, the guy rags on Democrats for not coming to the defense of Obama, but then offers no defense of his own.
message to The Plum Line: there is no defending it because its a naive and dangerous foreign policy.
Stephen Morgan commented:
If the Sissy in Chief and the rest of the Alinsky sodomizing tards in the Whitehouse feel they’re doing such a great job of protecting American Citizens while flying in Commercial Aircraft, here’s an excellent suggestion.. While traveling to ANOTHER one of their MANY taxpayer funded vacations, how about flying commercial and allowing CAIR, or your buddies in Palestine furnish a “recommended” and politically correct passenger schedule. We have been told, over, and over, how peaceful ISLAM is well,the bastards need to take the same risks that our husbands, wives, and children take while flying. American’s can and most likely Will die do to the piss poor protection of the SISSY-man sitting in the Whitehouse and the Sodomite that he put in charge of homeland security?? WTF? he? she? it? WTFWTFWTF???. How much more of this S!&T are we going to have to tolerate before we run their asses out on a rail.? The purple lipped idiot is going to get us burned…..
Stephen Morgan commented:
The only way to get Obama to Order his fellow Retards to get a handle on Terrorism is if the terrorists start bombing Golf Courses…
bill-tb commented:
We were one working fuse away from disaster.
I sure want to make damn sure we give the proper respect to all the Islamo-Fascists, and make them comfy. Maybe BamBam could call a talkie with them and show them we mean them no harm. Another beer summit perhaps?
It was nice that the incident didn’t disturb BamBam’s game.
Stephen Morgan commented:
Heres a link to Obamas closest Advisor..
http://www.addasnap.com/v/Funny+Bands/pooping.jpg.html
Stephen Morgan commented:
oops sorry.. wrong one… err..umm..derr..
here it is…
http://www.addasnap.com/v/Funny+Bands/effie.jpg.html
Solaratov commented:
Berto
December 29th, 2009 | 4:25 pm | #4
I see you’ve made no attempt to stop behaving like an idiot.
Perhaps we should just assume that you are so wired into parroting leftisms that you are no longer aware of reality.
Bwaak! Bwaak! Berto wanna cracker! Bwaak!
Solaratov commented:
Berto
December 29th, 2009 | 5:08 pm | #19
but all it showed was how weak we are militarily. (i.e. how weak our economic and military resources are in a fight against terrorists and insurgents).
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Berto, poor parrot – I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but WE WON IN IRAQ. Surely you must have heard something about it. It was in most of the papers – and the democRATS are still complaining about it.
At least make an attempt to keep up with the rest of the world, berty. Otherwise, you’ll look like a fool. Oh….wait………
Jerry M commented:
The most pathetic aspect of Obama’s handling of this event was his allowing this terrorist to be treated as a common criminal entitled to all of our constitutional protections rather than an enemy combatant who should have been subjected to rigorous CIA and FBI interrogation. Now that he is lawyered up, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain from him information about those who assisted him and what he knows about other attacks currently being planned. This event is also another example of what a fool Obama is thinking that closing Gitmo will somehow get our enemies to like and respect us. There have been more terrorist attacks against us in the one year Obama has been in office than at any other time since before 9/11. Even the Demtards understand that it is only a matter of time before something really bad happens as a result of Obama’s ineptitude.
Larkin commented:
re: Full body scanners at airport security…
All day long on talk radio, that seemed to be one of the main topics.
Do we let TSA folks see you nekkid? How much radiation will we be exposed to? Will it stop grandpa’s pacemaker?
This will be a huge imposition on the rights of citizens.
BUT! I guar-on-tee, that the folks responsible for this travesty will be the first to scream “discrimination!”. It will be in violation of the R.O.P.’s Nekkid Rule, or some such.
Islamo-pologists will take this to the Supreme Court, and I’d say it’s a toss-up when it gets there.
bg commented:
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wanumba @ 4:33 pm #9
re: [Where’s Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton?]
well Obama & Pelosi & who knows who else are in Hawaii.. and albeit also the Clintons favorite spot as well.. here’s what they did (must be a secret too)..
Did Clinton meet with Santa?
ho ho ho..
so where is she ?? all together now:
Where in the World is Hillary Rodham Clinton?
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BKeyser commented:
I think this group photo of the Administration should have been a clue as to the proficiency with which this President would respond to 3am emergencies.
bg commented:
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Larkin @ 8:55 pm #36
here’s why..
(albeit their using ‘common sense’ may
be too much to hope for at this point..)
hopefully there will be more profiling re: who gets screened, as i don’t believe all air travelers are terrorists (ie: granny & gramps, babies & toddlers, they can get checked out by other means w/o doing damage
to them)!!
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bg commented:
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olm @ 4:46 pm #16
hi, and while i think i know what you’re talking
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about.. maybe you posted in the wrong thread
(lol, i do that some times myself, oops..
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sandy commented:
I think its finally hit Congressional Dems that supporting Obama is likely to be hazardous to their reelections. One would have thought that the signs were there all along. But they refused to see the truth about Obama and his agenda of destruction to everything Americans hold dear. Just why they believed that a man with no experience had all the answers is a question which will have to be answered by Historians but in the meantime I wonder if these same Dems are still willing to follow Obama off a cliff when it comes to Healthcare–our domestic disaster.