GOP terrorism tack: Fundraising

To the GOP, fear is gold. Nothing new there. They know very well that people will react to fear/loss, especially their own useful idiots, who, upon command, get out their checkbooks.
The GOP has nothing to offer of substance and they know it.
No healthcare reform, no jobs, only fear mongering.

So Where's the Right Wing 'Outrage' Now?

A good question from Spencer Ackerman at The Washington Independent:

"So Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged would-be bomber of Northwest Airlines flight 253, is being detained and questioned in a federal prison in Michigan. He’s expected to appear in court today, after federal authorities indicted him yesterday. If convicted, he’ll be imprisoned in a federal prison. A federal civilian prison. Just like the one that Republican politicians said would leave American communities vulnerable if Guantanamo detainees were sent there."
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http://washingtonindependent.com/72190/why-no-gop-outrage-over-failed-plane-bombers-detention-in-michigan
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So, where's the outrage, Wingnuts? Or do Republicans now concede that we are capable of meting out justice while at the same time maintaining the security of both our citizenry and suspected terrorists? Because it's either that or it's time for them to admit that all of their pearl clutching calls for the smelling salts regarding imprisoning and prosecuting terror suspects in America were nothing more than cheap politicizing and fear-mongering....(of course we knew that all along).

President Obama has been in office since January 20th, 2009. My 401k is up, my family is safe, my standard of living has increased and we are close to reforming health care. I have no complaints because I'm not a dirtbag Republican who blames politicians for my lack of education and lifes failures. You lost. Get over it Republicans. Your ideas are stale and unpopular!

As soon as I heard about this I knew that some fear-mongering Republican whackjob would be rushing to find any microphone or camera they could find. And sure enough (R) Peter King and (R) Pete Hoekstra stood up and opened their pieholes before all the facts were in. And don't forget, these are also the very same right wing as*clowns who allowed 9/11 to happen on their watch and invaded a country (Iraq) for no reason in response.

Yeah, Obama should have immediately held a press conference, said everything is going to be ok, and spoken reassuringly so pantswetting Wingnuts would be comfortable enough to open their eyes again. He also probably should have worn a flight suit and ordered an invasion of the Netherlands to make Planet Wingnuttia feel even safer yet.

Someone burp these whiner Repugs and hand them a wetnap.
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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/hoekstra-fair-hold-obama-responsible-terror
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Obama handled this perfectly. Terrorists want to cause as much 'TERROR' as they can, thus the name 'TERRORIST'. By not going out and scaring everyone with over blown "bring'em on" type rhetoric like Bush and Cheney did Obama is doing exactly what terrorists hate the most - NO EXTRA PUBLICITY!

Of course this hasn't stopped some of the more moronic of Republicans like Pete Hoekstra and Peter King from trying to score political points by fear-mongering over this Nigerian dudes pathetic attempt at being a terrorist.

I'll tell you who's soft on Terrorism - the guys who were in charge on September 11, 2001.

As I recall, that list of Pet Goat reading, bunker hunkering nosepickers had a distinctly Republican odor. And I also recall that they had spent the proceeding 8 months devising tax cuts for the Rich schemes while completely ignoring the Clinton administration warnings about terrorism coming to America.

Republicans love to wrap themselves in The Flag. But only after they've used it to wax their Lexus LS600's.

The GOP is fundraising off of Fear?

NOooooooooo!

Say it ain't so!!!

This can't be true!

The GOP base can't be dumb enough to fall for that old trick!.......well....hmmm...uh.....ok.......nevermind.

Formerly intelligent, The outrage is at the fool in the white house that just released six more terrorists back to Yemen while trying to beef up counterterrorism efforts there. The outrage is directed at the political hack that thinks ignoring a direct plea from the chairman of Nigeria's largest bank, the UK visa denial, the cash for airline tickets and lack of passport mean that our security system is working.

The outrage is directed at people so clueless they attempt to equate an arrest by law enforcement on US soil with captured fighters in a foreign country.

And no we are not capable of securing prisoners because there will always be lib lawyers that hate this country enough to pass on messages to and from these scum. There will always be libs that don't believe national security is more important than some muslim's right to blow up guilty capitalist Americans.

I hope the administration is paying you well. Your poorly thought out moral equivalancy carries that Rahm/Axelrod/Hussein stench. You know, its detectable from I-55 downstate but is particulary strong around Randolph and Clark.

Still Writing Wrongs,

"To the GOP, fear is gold".

I guess you have forgot the fear-mongering from the dems on we must pass a Stimulus bill immediately - no time to read it - or the economy will collpase?

Or passing "Climate Change" related legilstaion or the polar ice caps will melt and sea levels will rise, droughts will occur, and all the other liberal blather.

Or passing health care before the summer recess or passing health care immediately since 40,000 people per year alledgely die from lack of health insurance. We must pass the bill now (never mind the benefits don't kick in until 2013/14).

When it comes to scaring the American people, the GOP have nothing on the Dems.

Let's not forget Rahm "Deadfish" Emmanual "Never let a crisis go to waste"

In the aftermath of the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas day, we've learned a number of things: that Republicans, while burnishing their Party of No creds, voted against funding the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/GOP_blame_at_TSA.html#

That two of the al Qaeda leaders allegedly behind the plot were released by the Bush administration into an "art therapy rehabilitation program,"
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http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065

And that there is no permanent head of the TSA because of Jim DeMint (R-SC):

"An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration — if there was one.

The post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint , R- S.C. , has held up President Barack Obama's nominee in opposition to the prospect of TSA workers joining a labor union."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091228/pl_mcclatchy/3386711

So, we have Republicans refusing to fund anti-terrorism efforts, Republicans who made poor decisions on releasing terrorists, and a Republican who is playing politics with the TSA because he doesn't like unions.

All which can mean only one thing to the right wing noise machine (Faux News, Drudge, Rush etc). The attempted terrorist attack that occurred last week is all President Obama's fault.

The obama panty waist administration are clueless when it comes to national security. Man-caused disasters? Bowing to every thug dictator in the world?

And now do-overs on speeches.....
First it was Janet cluelessnapalitano and then followed up by panty waist.

We're in deeeeep do-do.

Paulo

I guess the truth bothers the Democrats.

Hans,
There's a big difference between people who Obama released and people Bush released.

Team Bush had no idea who they had or whether they were terrorists or goat farmers, so they tortured all of them and then tried to sort it out later. Thus, and not surprisingly, they ended up creating terrorists (after their release) from some of the innocent people of whom they had held at Gitmo.

And NO ONE that Obama has released has been accussed of doing anything, so until and unless that happens, you're full of crap.

I hope the right wing noise machine is paying you well. Your poorly thought out moral equivalancy carries that Faux/Rush/Malkin stench. You know, its detectable everytime you enter red states in the south, including the pig farmers in southern IL.

Wa?! Jesus came to Detroit in the midst of Christmas morning to destroy the American way of life.

Formerly, You have zero information regarding the innocence of gitmo detainees. We do have the word of some leftist lawyers that care nothing about the security of this country. Clearly you fall into that camp.

As for making some sand scum picked up with an AK47 uncomfortable in order to extract information, we should do more not less. We don't do anything more to these muslims than we do to our own military during training.

However, if you suggest that we made them terrorists through "torture" then there is zero difference between the releases by Bush and Obambi, they were all "tortured." The idiot in chief did have the benefit of knowing that 20% of those previously released had commited terrorist acts after release and that they were ending up in Yemen.

Your defense of the incompetent in the white house is astounding considering the missteps and bumbling on an almost daily basis. I didn't think it possible that anyone could make Bush look intelligent until this fool came along. I'm sure Rahm appreciates you looking the other way as the emperor passes by with no clothes on.

What Democrats are upset that a Republican uses something like this to raise campaign money. When Obama sends out e-mails every time something happens asking for money. And the Democrats and the media will point this out as something that is nasty and dirty because a Republican does what the Democrats have been doing all along. Bunch of hypocrites. Once Obama stops campaigning then maybe the Democrats would have a leg to stand on on this issue.