Editorial

 

The morons are in charge

America’s dumbest public official did it again last week. While the rest
of the free world asked how a Nigerian Muslim terrorist could board and
nearly destroy a commercial air flight, The Director of Homeland
Security, Janet Napolitano, volunteered that “the system worked as it
should have”.

Her idea of “as it should have” is undefined. We had everything but dead
bodies and a crashed airliner, and she thinks “the system” worked just
fine. This gives reason to suspect she’s an idiot but we want to give
her more credit than that. She might be a moron.

“As it should have” after the event. That’s like praising the bulldozer
that knocks down the burning embers of an arsonist’s fire. Welcome to
the new la-la land of governmental responsibility. Homeland Security
only has one job: Keep the barbarians outside the gates. When they get
in anyhow, Napolitano praises her “system” for alerting the airlines 90
minutes after the event.

ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, and probably even the Turner Movie Classics
channel, did better than that.

Homeland Security is the biggest joke since Tiger Woods plighted his
troth. Only in America (or in some old communist country) could you
solve all the nation’s security problems by combining a bunch of
bureaucracies into an ever-bigger bureaucracy, then appointing a career
politician to run it.

Homeland Security has a $52 billion budget and 225,000 employees. In the
skies over Detroit it came down to one man, 31-year old Dutchman Jasper
Schuringa, to save the day and the lives of 290 people. Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian who started his day in Lagos, put the
explosive PETN and a liquid catalyst into his shorts and bought a ticket
for cash. According to the State Department, his visa, issued in
November, had expired. The geniuses manning the gates for Napolitano
didn’t notice that the young military-aged Muslim paid cash for his
ticket, had an expired visa and no luggage. It didn’t occur to anyone to
profile this guy, flying to Detroit on a one-way ticket in the middle of
a winter blizzard for an alleged two-week stay with nothing more than
the tee-shirt on his back.

As Jay Leno said Monday night, anyone flying to Detroit in December
should be profiled. But to TSA, there was nothing suspicious. Maybe the
screeners were working at the end of their shift.

Moving further up the food chain, it didn’t occur to President Obama to
cut short his golf game in Hawaii to check into the situation. There
could have been more attacks coming. It certainly didn’t occur to the
malevolent media to question his inaction, or why he referred to it as
the act of a solitary individual and called it an “alleged act of
terrorism” when he did say something.

Alleged? “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” Maybe Obama didn’t want to
prejudice the criminal trial.

They also didn’t ask where he was for the next three days. George W.
Bush wasn’t so lucky on 9/11. While New York was under attack, the media
wanted him in the White House. When the Pentagon came under attack, they
wanted him there.

There are two kinds of Presidents. Those who make things happen, and
those who wonder what happened. Bush was the former. Obama is the
latter. Both types always appoint people who are as much like them as
possible. Vice President Joe Biden is the number one example of the
Obama administration’s ineptitude. Somewhere about the six-month mark
into the presidency, someone pulled the plug on Joe “the plagiarist”.
While no one really thought he could survive stealing lines about being
the first in his family to get an education, likewise no one thought he
could call a black presidential candidate “articulate, clean and bright”
and be named to said candidate’s presidential ticket.

After Biden, you can run through the list of Obama cabinet level
appointees and discover men and women of little or no talent, repute or
ability:

State: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Former First Lady, whose endless mission
is to boldly fly where no Sec. of State has gone before. Her department
issued the visa to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was on a terrorist
watch list, then failed to take it back, and failed to notify TSA. Was
she still in Copenhagen?

Treasury: Timothy Geithner, tax cheat. His mission is to print as much
money as the President needs to fund the Stimulus plan, Cash for
Clunkers, Homeland Security, and Hillary’s jet fuel.
Oh, and to make sure everyone else pays their taxes.

Energy: Steven Chu, who thinks global warming is man-made and that we
must cut our energy production to reduce our carbon footprint. His
department was founded by Jimmy Carter to expand domestic energy
production, not reduce it.

Economic Advisers: Christina Romer, an academic who has never held a job
in the private sector in her entire life is supposed to counsel a
President who also never held a private sector job on what to do to turn
things around. The answer? Make government bigger.

Justice: Eric Holder, the Pièce de résistance in the Obama appointments.
Holder thinks terrorists are criminals and every dirtbag caught on a
battlefield should be Mirandized, lawyered-up and brought to New York
for trial.

Sleep well tonight. Take a pill if you must. Our military is alert and
aware, but the morons are in charge.