Using Double Standard, Conservatives Absolve Bush For ‘Domestic Attacks’ On His Watch
Ignoring the irony of Rudy “noun, a verb, and 9/11” Giuliani claiming there were “no domestic attacks under Bush,” the logic of the conservative claim that the failed Christmas Day attack represents a mar on Obama’s record while Bush’s post-9/11 record was spotless reveals a stunning double standard. As many, including ThinkProgress, have pointed out, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab’s failed underwear bombing is nearly identical to Richard Reid’s failed shoe bombing in December 2001, but the conservatives attacking Obama for letting an attack occur on his watch don’t seem to count the shoe bombing as an attack on Bush’s watch.
....Spencer Ackerman writes: "You actually need to give President George W. Bush credit for this. The Bush people did a wonderfully effective job of making it verboten in mainstream political discourse to consider the deaths of 3000 Americans on 9/11 in any sense Bush’s failing."
Another Stupid Fox Nation Headline Says MA Democrats “Nervous” About Tea Party Candidate
Today we have a lede, “Tea Party Senate Candidate Making Dems Nervous In MA.” Oh really? The article, from the conservative “Canada Free Press,” isn’t really an article at all – but, rather, a press release from the Chief Strategist of the Tea Party Express which endorses the senate candidacy of Republican Scott Brown for the seat vacated by the late Senator Ted Kennedy. In addition to the endorsement, there is a request for money for Brown’s candidacy which promises to stop “socialist health care.” So there is nothing remotely connected to MA Democrats being “nervous” except “polls” which show the race between Brown and MA Attorney General Martha Coakley tightening to 9 points. But hey, in Fox Nation wishes become reality and when reality bites, ya just make it up.
On Terror, GOP Goes from Oprah to Donald Trump by Avenging Angel
Witnessing the Republican reaction to the Obama administration's handling of the failed Christmas bombing is like watching reruns of The Apprentice. Like Donald Trump, each conservative talking head proclaims "You're Fired!" to members of the Obama team. Of course, when President Bush presided over the 9/11 catastrophe, Osama Bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora, the baseless claims about Saddam's WMD, the disastrous invasion of Iraq and myriad other intelligence and national security debacles, Republicans instead played the role of Oprah. Then, their message was "you get a medal, you get a medal, you all get medals!"
Of course, none of the Bush bunglers was fired. Instead, a President whose mantra apparently was "nothing succeeds like failure" bestowed medals upon them.
