Republican congressman Dan Burton has called for the resignation of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano. Story at the Hill
You remember Dan? He once had a melon shoot in his back yard, the exploding melons somehow proved that Hillary Clinton murdered White House counsel Vince Foster. Republican Logic.
So Denmark allowed a terrorist who should have been on a no fly list on a flight to Detroit. The man failed to detonate a bomb in his underwear. The flight made it and no one was hurt. Republicans want Napolitano’s head on a plate.
I was watching TV one morning a few years back when I saw an airliner slam into the World Trade Center. Then another one. Then one flown into the Pentagon and one more crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. Four successful airline hijackings, all dead, and with the towers and the Pentagon adding up to 3000 souls departed.
The Bush Administration was warned repeatedly and handed a year in the making study that such a thing was likely to happen. Bush and company ignored it for political reasons in wanting to move ahead on Star Wars. The top lobbyist for Star Wars over the previous 10 years had been Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of DEFENSE.
As that horrible day moved into evening I could not believe that the resignations of both Secretary of DEFENSE Rumsfled and National SECURITY Advise Condi Rice were not on the President’s desk which he would have no choice but to accept. Though it did not happen, I was sure it would in the morning. Nope, not even a hint of such a thing. Not from Republicans or Democrats
So far in this Century there has been no hypocrisy grander than Dan Burton calling for the resignation of Janet Napolitano when he did not call for the resignations of Rumsfeld and Rice.
Sadly, we being what we are, a nation of overweigh slow witted spoiled crapourpants scardycats, this failed plot is going to be played by the GOP so well, they may very well take the House and Senate in 2010 and the White House in 2012. It is the turning point they have been waiting for. Reason in American lasted ALMOST a year! So thanx for that at least!