1. on the morning of massachusetts the president's nominee had to be nixed cuz he abused his law enforcement powers and lied to congress about it
2. which is exactly where things have stood with mr southers for a month
3. the only thing that's new, changed, different is, well, scott brown
4. TERRORISM as an issue killed coakley
5. brown said over and over again, it doesn't make sense to "spend taxpayer money on attorneys" for terrorists instead of trying to kill them
6. how mutallab could ever have come so close, how legally to handle the jingle bells jihadist, how happened hasan at fort hood---these issues overshadowed even health care in that now famous final debate where brown interrupted moderator gergen to correct the arrogant egghead---this aint the kennedy seat, it's the people's---in true reaganesque fashion
7. terrorism is tripping this president just as much as it mangled the massachusetts AG
8. her numbers plummeted after 2 huge events, only 24 hours apart
9. harry got 60 on christmas eve
10. and mutallab lit the back of a plane on fire on the Day itself
11. time mag published a piece this morning, saying---the pentagon's just released fort hood report, 86 pages long, DOES NOT MENTION ONCE mr hasan's name
12. also unutterable STILL inside our military is the word, "ISLAM"
13. most americans have come by now to see a political correctness AT THE INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL in the army as most responsible for all those egregious oversights of red light warnings that were so, again, institutionally ignored at hood
14. that PC in the pentagon persists, patently
15. read the report:
Fort Hood Report: No Mention of Islam, Hasan Not Named - TIME
16. the president repeatedly lets his agenda dictate his response to these extempore exigencies
17. he really, deeply, yearningly just wants terrorism to go away
18. he certainly does not want to deal with it
19. he has (had) an extremely ambitious agenda that he obviously loves, health care, social engineering around the question of climate, redistribution, political empowerment of a certain class...
20. fighting terrorism is and never was any part of his heart, it could only ever come up as an unasked for, unwanted obligation
21. his policy concerning international jihad can only be described as OSTRICH
22. he buries his head and hopes it goes away
23. when the enemy refuse to cooperate by disappearing, the president displays this perplexing pattern of always painting the incident in its most optimistic perspective
24. hence, he pronounces mutallab an "isolated extremist"
25. the white house knew at the time the nasty nigerian was trained, armed and sent by al qaeda in yemen
26. it is now equally clear that had our intel done its job after fort hood instead of refusing to look at the alahu akbar killer in his ugly actuality, the fbi would have stumbled unmistakably onto the computer correspondence that led straight from the mad imam, al awlaki, to the christmas crusader
27. but, no, the president just cannot force himself to look at the furious face of our foe who, unfortunately, is no neocon's fantasy
28. thus, the president's "evolution of anger," so much tossed about in the waikiki week after yule, the week martha coakley croaked
29. from everything went like "clockwork" to "criminal suspect" to "systemic failure" to "catastrophic breach" to "considerations of military action against yemen" in one wild, whacked out week
30. why was southers sent south TODAY?
31. embarrassment never averted this administration before
32. terrorism, the unwanted issue, is ripping this poor president to pieces
33. today in the senate, 4 senior officials, including dhs napolitano, were made to look ridiculous by john mccain when they were forced to admit they had NOT BEEN CONSULTED about the movement of mutallab before civil venues
washingtonpost.com
34. and DOJ has so far refused to talk
35. dennis blair, head of HIG (high value interrogation group), told the senators his agency was not prepared for the apprehension of terrorists within our borders, only overseas
36. he later issued a statement saying HIG was not yet "fully operational"
37. this one, like so many others, aint goin away
38. complete incompetence
39. the intent to try terrorist suspects before civil courts destroyed massachusetts' gentle AG
40. just today went down the withdrawal of TSA southers, the whitewashed pentagon report on fort hood, the painfully unprofessional testimony of senior officials before jiltin joe's homeland security
41. the president's posture pertaining to the suddenly compelling issue of terrorism is pathetically, perilously polyanna
42. it's going to pulverize him