GOP sees failed bombing as ‘holiday gift’

[kpete]

Professor: GOP sees failed bombing as ‘holiday gift’

By David Edwards and Sahil Kapur
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 -- 11:16 am

WASHINGTON -- Friday's failed terrorist attack on Northwest Flight 253 has led to a resurgent debate on national security, and one political science expert said Monday that the GOP is exploiting and politicizing the debate for its personal gain.

"What the GOP sees as its clear ability to attack the Obama administration is on this question of national security and terrorism," Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics at Princeton University, said on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show.

"It's sad but there is a way in which this terrorist plot, which did not actually take any American lives," she continued. "At least some members of the GOP clearly saw this as a holiday gift -- an opportunity to once again put terrorism on the agenda, someplace they think they are strong."

more:
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/professor-bombing-political-gift-for-gop/

[tabatha]

1. So a non-failed attack on the GOP's watch

make them strong wrt terrorism?

[NJmaverick]

2. Unfortunately for the GOP, and fortunate for the rest of us

President Obama has not been weak on terrorism.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I have no doubt they're disappointed that the plane didn't explode or crash.

[nykym]

4. If they think they are so

strong on terror why did they vote NO to TSA funding (DOD budget) in which one program for funding was bomb detection?

[blondeatlast]

5. The GOP was solidly on the "naughty" list this year. Santa is not amused by the bloodlust

for 280 innocent lives.

Fuck them all to hell.

[Winterblues]

6. Fortunately for America a Democrat is in the Whitehouse and competence prevailed.

The incompetence of the Republican Controled Congress and Administration over the last eight years was unbelievable..

[AwakeAtLast]

7. How can they claim this as a gift when they were the Scrooges who blocked the TSA nom.?

Ugh, my head hurts. :banghead:

[AndyA]

8. December 2009: FAILED attack. September 2001: SUCCESSFUL attack.

2009 = Obama (Democrat)

2001 = Bush (Republican)

Pretty much says it all.

[AzDar]

9. Until, I suppose, they figure out that the two 'masterminds' behind the

attempt were released from Gitmo a few years back by Bush/Cheney.

Oops!

:eyes: