Republican Stupidity of the Day

You would think that when a terrorist attempts to attack this country by trying to blow up a commercial airplane, our elected leaders could set aside partisan politics and work together for a few days and rally behind the President. That certainly is what happened during the Bush administration after 9/11, and as I remember it, after the failed shoe bomber attempt and any other incidents. It is what any decent, patriotic American would do. Certainly, if Democrats had started questioning President Bush's decisions immediately after a terrorist threat, Republicans would have accused them of betrayal and treason and supporting the enemy.

But, hypocrites that they are, they have no problem trying to make political gain out of a thwarted terrorist attempt by scurrilously attacking the Obama administration and the President himself. You would think that no one could stoop so low as to use a terrorist attack on Americans to further divide America and try to advance their political goals, but Republicans have no limits.

Representative Pete Hoekstra, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Tom Ridge, and the usual gang of idiot pundits have all joined in. It can hardly get any more despicable.

Republican Stupidity of the Day

Tom Ridge says that the guy who tried to bring down a plane on Christmas Day should not be tried in a court of law. But when he was in charge of Homeland Security, they tried the "shoe bomber" in court in a nearly identical case. It's Republican hypocrisy at its best.

Here's the Talking Points Memo link.

Republican Stupidity of the Day

"Sen. DeMint is the author of the famous statement that this is going to be President Obama's 'Waterloo,' that this ought to be used to break the president," said Specter, referring to the political battle over health care. "So that before the ink was dry on the oath of office -- and I know this, because I was in the caucus -- the Republicans were already plotting ways to beat President Obama in 2012."

That statement is from Senator Arlen Specter, who switched parties during 2009 and so was in the conversation when Republicans were making their plans. So while they continue to lie about bipartisanship and pretend that Democrats are to blame for divisiveness between the parties, Republicans have planned all along to oppose any health care initiative for political purposes. Surprise, surprise.

Republican Stupidity of the Day

Mary Matalin, Republican strategist, was on CNN with John King this morning. She managed to slip into the conversation the assertion that. just as Barack Obama had inherited a bad economy, George Bush had inherited a recession and the 9/11 attacks! This ludicrous lie was allowed to pass without any notice by John King. I was outraged enough to write a note to
TalkingPointsMemo.com, who did not (yet at least) comment on it. However, I was apparently not the only one who noticed, as ThinkProgess wrote about it.