Ebert Response

Dave, are you still doubting me after this week?
Yeah, I am. The Dems have a majority in both houses and the White House. They only need 51 votes in the Senate, not 60. And honestly, I'd kind of like to see a Republican read the rules to Monopoly in a filibuster.


I did not say that Bush was "blameless". I made the case, with quotes and facts, that slandering Bush as disengaged, negligent, or incompetent is slanderous and not justified by the facts and not helpful.

Bush apologized. He took responsibility for his main failing of hiring Michael Brown at FEMA, and he fired Brown and brought in new leadership there. (As opposed to Obama, who "took responsibility" for an AL-QAIDA OPERATIVE GETTING ON A PLANE WITH A BOMB, and fired no one)

The Katrina thing is so wrong. Bush blew it off, man. Do you honestly think that if Martha's Vineyard had been hit by a hurricane the size of Katrina, Bush's response would have been the same?!
As to UFA: I wrote before that I believed heads should roll. Who got fired after 9/11, by the way?



If he's such a smart guy, why can't he figure out that Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab belongs in an interrogation cell at Gitmo and not a jail cell with a lawyer - and that his Attorney General needs to be fired?

I don't agree that UFA should be in an interrogation cell at Gitmo, for reasons I've already enumerated. If Obama's AG saw a memo with UFA's name on it that was as actionable as the PDB warning of bin Laden, then I'm with you.

...you still using the vulgar derogatory term "tea baggers"?
I honestly didn't know that "teabagging" was a sexual term until recently, and I meant no offense when I wrote that. (Really, I didn't.)

There are good aspects of socialism, I think.
Clearly The Community Organizer thinks so. Saul Alinsky 101. Attacking the banks is the next arrow in the Alinsky / Obama quiver. All in a socialist's day's work.

I've been to more than a few socialist countries, and I really do see trhe quality of life improved in a lot of ways. Mostly for blue-collar and middle class workers. Things like transportation, healthcare, education...I think they work really well.

Why is Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab - a foreign national al-Qaida operative who had not cleared Customs yet - sitting in a jail cell on US soil, Mirandized, with a lawyer and clammed up instead of sitting in Gitmo with an intelligence analyst spilling his guts on the 25 more terrorists right behind him in Yemen? How is that possibly being serious about the terrorist threat? And why hasn't Attorney General Eric Holder been fired yet?

Firstly,
Its very hard for me to believe that all you wrote about Hassan, Ramadan, etc.. are the result of an organized terrorist organization. Hassan was a working soldier for the US government. What would you have the President do, exactly?

As to UFA: Its because we are BETTER than what you described above. Everyone deserves a defense. Thats the way our system works. Yes, it has it faults, but I'm not ready to throw it out every time somebody crosses a line we had not drawn before. Its a slippery slope that I'm not willing to give up. Again, I'm all for Holder being fired if a piece of paper is produced that incriminates him the same way the PDB incriminated Bush. (And it most surely did. It named bin Laden and the way he might attack the US one month before bin Ladenm actually did attack the US...in the same way the memo described.)

September 18th.
Damn. Did I hit the 4 instead?