Look, this is all over the place. It’s so obviously, blatantly wrong, nobody’s saying anything insightful about it. All you can really do is bug out your eyes and scream incoherently, or just sigh and click on to the next post, or go watch a movie or something.
Ladies and gentlemen, the finest hands your country is in [0:30]
“Baghdad” Janet “Nappies” Napolitano, Head Nanny:
One thing I’d like to point out here is that the system worked. Everybody played an important role here. The passengers and crew of the flight took appropriate action.
Even CNN’s commentator can’t quite keep the disbelief out of her voice. CNN is not playing with The Team on this one.
Some of the passengers did indeed do the right thing, although Nappies and her minions have done everything possible to render the passengers helpless.
Then there’s this:
We have no suggestion that he was improperly screened.
He got on the plane despite being on watch lists and despite warnings from his own family. How is that not “improper screened”?
This is never going to work if both the terrorist’s and the Administration’s pants are on fire.
Jonah Goldberg says the obvious about as well as anybody:
It is her basic position that the “system worked” because the bureaucrats responded properly after the attack. That the attack was “foiled” by a bad detonator and some civilian passengers is proof, she claims, that her agency is doing everything right. That is just about the dumbest thing she could say, on the merits and politically.
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If the White House wants to assure people that it takes the war on terror seriously (a term Robert Gibbs used this morning by the way), they could start by firing this patenly unqualified hack.
Although Goldberg is generous (“patently unqualified hack”), you should read the whole thing; it’s short.
Oh, and I can’t pass over this [0:39]:
Within literally an hour to ninety minutes of the incident occurring, all 128 flights in the air had been notified to take some special measures in light of what had occurred.
When seconds count, TSA is an hour away, at least. With advice, not actual, you know, help.
Goldberg is far too generous. Napolitano, and the administration she is a part of, is not unqualified.
They’re on the other side.
Tags: Christmass Bomber, Napolitano, NW Flight 253, System Worked