What should be of greater concern to the Democrats and the White House is that this payback hackery has the serious potential to go well beyond the self-contradictory jabs within the pages of Politico and Drudge.
This week ought to prove once and for all that if there's ever a successful terrorist hijacking and detonation of another taint bomb, the Republican Party -- especially if they gain a majority in Congress -- will absolutely move to impeach the president.
In the aftermath of the successful and terrible 9/11 attacks, Bush's approval ratings shot up to 90 percent. Democrats and Republicans rallied around the president in defiance against violent religious extremism. Meanwhile, President Obama has just presided over a failed terrorist attack in which a Qaeda-doof botched a crotch rocket -- the airplane landed on time and there were minimal injuries. The hijacker is still alive and is talking like a Chatty Cathy doll. Yet President Obama is somehow targeted by the right as an utter failure because of it. Now imagine if there had been an attack even close to the scope of the 9/11 hijackings.
In other words, preside over the biggest terrorist attack in American history and it's an epic win for President Bush. Preside over a failed attack and it's an epic fail for President Obama.
I'm actually a little surprised that the Republicans, lead by Peter King and Pete Hoekstra, haven't attacked President Obama for not responding to the news of that van in Times Square that turned out to be nothing. Why is Obama weak on not-at-all-related-to-terrorism?
The Republicans are doing this because they can. Jim DeMint is going unchallenged for putting a hold on the TSA administrator nomination because he can. The Washington establishment media is gamed in favor of the Republicans and their peepee-pants fear-mongering due to a self-conscious striving for balance. No one will seriously challenge the Republicans because the press is mortally terrified of being labeled as "in the tank for Obama." Instead, false equivalencies and free passes for unmitigated GOP hypocrisy rule the day. And Dick Cheney gets to say whatever he wants, whenever he wants without so much as a follow-up question.
Looking on the bright side, thanks to Dick Cheney for helping to reunite progressives around a common cause. Appreciate it.CORRECTION: ABC News originally reported that two former Gitmo detainees helped plan the attack. This is inaccurate. Only one former Gitmo detainee, released by Dick Cheney and George W. Bush in 2007, helped to plan the failed Underpants attack.
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