Bloodthirsty Liberal

Obama’s health care plan is getting counseling from a “death panel”, and we start hearing of CIA “atrocities”. Anybody else think there’s a coincidence?

Team Obama may be ruthless and as unfamiliar with decency as they are with the surface of Venus—but they ain’t dumb.

U.S. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), U.S. Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other senators today sent the following letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in response to his decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA officials who interrogated al Qaeda terrorists:

“We are deeply disappointed by today’s announcement that you have chosen to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA officials who interrogated al Qaeda terrorists. As we explained to you in a letter dated August 19, 2009, reopening those cases—which career prosecutors have already determined do not warrant criminal prosecution—could, among other things, have a chilling effect on the work of the intelligence community.

“We believe that the concerns raised in our letter warranted, at a minimum, careful consideration and a reasoned response. Instead, you moved forward without responding to our concerns or discussing with a coordinate branch of government the potential national security consequences that may result if the intelligence community is operating against a backdrop of prosecutions. The handling of this important issue calls into question your confirmation hearing commitments that you would establish a ‘full partnership’ with Congress and that you ‘recognize that congressional oversight and judicial review are necessary, beneficial attributes of our system of government.’

Yadda yadda.

This isn’t really that hard to understand: Obama’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t producing much more than a record number of body bags; his anti-terrorism policies so resemble Bush’s they recall the intelligence tests that challenge you to find the difference between two seemingly identical pictures; the best that can be said of his economic stimulus package is that it temporarily staunched the hemorrhaging—its most popular initiative, Bucks for Buckets (Lira for Lemons?), literally bribed people to buy new cars; he has suggested he might go both left and right on his health care plan.

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Wouldn’t you appoint a special prosecutor? To investigate school lunches, the designated hitter, Paula Abdul—anything to distract the public and appease your rabid followers? Aggie pointed out the other day the Rasmussen poll that shows Obama’s haters now routinely outnumber his idolators by double figures. The man needs a piñata, and he needs it now, national security be damned.

We have become such a strange country: now, the mere presence of a power drill and the sound of a gunshot from the next room are evidence of monstrosity. The terrorists we catch and interrogate would think nothing of slitting Shirley Temple’s throat, and we think they are scarred by a Black & Decker cordless?

Whatever. If it were me, I’d put the gun on the table, and run the power drill in the next room—now, that would be disturbing—but that’s why I’m a bloodthirsty liberal.