Posted by
Patrick Henry on Monday, January 05, 2009 5:59:20 PM
More than two weeks before his inauguration, President Elect Barack Obama has
meekly surrendered to the left wing of the Democratic party, and apparebtly to
terrorism as well. His nomination of former Clinton White House Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta as new head pf the CIA makes it official.
Panetta is a career political bureaucrat with zero prior experience in the intelligence
community. Furthermore, he comes out of a disastrous administration that dismantled
American intelligence capacities to the extent that the 9/11 attackers had little fear of
being prematurely discovered. One could have hoped that Obama's amateurism would
have taken longer to surface, and would have presented in a less dangerous form.
The left wing Democrats relentlessly assailed the pending nomination of William
Brennan because of his "ties to torture" and the Bush war on terror. Panetta, the
news organizations are already speculating, will eschew the use of "hard assets" for
intelligence gathering, in favor of "soft assets" -- exactly what Bill Clinton did when
he raped the CIA. Should Panetta be confirmed, the left wing blog and al-Qaeda should
join forces for a celebrative kegger. And by the way, expect another MAJOR attack on
the U.S. homeland in less than a year!
This is a perfect example of why liberal Democrats are unfit to run the country. While
they're busy fiddling with tax policy and ramping up social programs, terrorists and
enemies of this country get busy ramping up some things of their own. Carter and
Clinton gutted the military, and modern Democratic leaders have consistently voted
against military and intelligence appropriations. They don't get it, so the American
people line up for another 9/11.
Democrats decry the Patriot Act, rant against torture and rendition, while claiming
they can make America safe without those tools. But have you ever noticed that they
never say just HOW they are going to do that? Pressed on the talk shows, all they
have to offer is "diplomacy." Maybe if we talk nicely to Ahmadinejad he won't
build nukes, or perhaps we can reason with Ayman Alzawahiri, Hamas, Hezbollah,
Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin and company. Right!
Panetta guarantees that America will walk softly. But those who walk softly
WITHOUT the big stick get only one thing: their butt kicked. If the Democrats want
to bend over, fine. Unfortunately, they're making the rest of us bend over too. Thanks
a lot, Barack!