No, they don’t respond rapidly to attempted terrorist attacks, but they do have a rapid response to any criticism of their lack of rapid response. Bizzaro World.
David’s post below on the White House’s decision to accuse of all people, Dick Cheney, of being insufficiently critical of al Qaeda beggars belief. As Jim Geraghty quipped, “He’s beyond condemning [bomber Abdulmutallab]; he wants to waterboard him until his lungs qualify for a federal wetlands status.” We all agree al Qaeda’s attempts to blow up airplanes are bad — the question is what is the current occupant of the White House going to do about it?
But what I can’t wrap my head around is that it took the President four days to acknowledge what he termed a “catastrophic” national security failure, but Cheney criticizes the administration’s handling of the war on terror and they have a rapid response on the White House blog in a matter of hours? Priorities!
Priorities, indeed. If they spent more time working on keeping terrorists off our airplanes, and less time responding to every criticism, perhaps the American people would feel a bit more secure. Who knows, maybe there’d be less to criticize.
Related: The administration is cracking down after the terrorist attempt to blow up Northwest 253 – on bloggers. Lord help us.
