The Healthscare Travesty is just the tip of the iceberg with respect more government control of your life for your own good. We now are hearing from Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, trying to convince us on Meet The Press this past Sunday that “the [security] system worked” while in less than 24 hours she admits that the “system failed”. Frankly we resent Napolitano’s feeble attempt of taking credit for the heroism of the Dutch passenger aboard the Detroit flight, somehow implying that he and the other passangers were part of the “system that worked”. The system however that she is responsible for is the system that was supposed to prevented that slimball from getting on that flight in the first place! How will the TSA respond? Well they are already working with the FAA to put a policy in place that passangers must sit with their hands on the knees, no books or any materials in hand, for the last hour of a flight. What?? Restrain the very part of the so called system, “the passengers themselves” that in fact worked!
Politics and spinning every event in a good light for the administration has no place in this cabinet post. Especially when done with that smirk on her face. The current “politically correct” anti-profiling approach for screening suspected terrorists and handcuffing the FBI and CIA does not inspire a warm and fuzzy feeling that the present adminstration is at war with Terrorism. In fact when will Obama take a stand and use the words War on Terror. Fighting a war with your hands tied behind your back is a sure formula for an enemy triumph.
The answer from Homeland Security is to add even more burdens on the American people in airports rather then enforcing the no fly list and using aggressive profiling targeting know suspects that are in our databases.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded Monday that airline security failed in allowing a Nigerian on a terror watch list and allegedly armed with explosives onto a Detroit-bound flight, a turnaround from her declaration a day day earlier that “the system worked.”
The secretary’s comment Sunday was widely criticized, given that suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was foiled because his explosive mixture did not properly detonate and he was stopped in his tracks by vigilant passengers.
The suspect, who carried the explosive in his underwear, passed through security at two airports — in Nigeria and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Plus he was not on any “no-fly” list, even though he was on a massive federal database of people with suspected ties to terrorists and his father apparently had warned U.S. embassy officials in Nigeria about his son.
“Here, clearly, something went awry. We want to fix that problem,” Napolitano told Fox News on Monday.
She said officials are doing a complete review to determine what needs to change to prevent such a passenger from clearing security in the future.
“No secretary of homeland security would sit here and say that a system worked prior to this incident which allowed this individual to get on this plane,” Napolitano said.
Her comments marked a change in tone from the day before, when she lauded security officials’ handling of the affair.
“I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have,” she said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We trained for this. We planned for this.”
On CNN’s “State of the Union,” she said: “One thing I’d like to point out is that the system worked.”
The statement was swiftly condemned. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the system “failed in every respect.”
One has to wonder if there is any integrity at all left in our political leadership? Now we have learned that Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska was bought off behind closed doors to secure his “60th” vote for the passage of the now purely political Health Scare bill. So I ask you… Is the good Senator from Nebraska any better than the average street walking prostitute in D.C.? This revelation demonstrates once again just to what depths in the cloak of political desperation this present “leadership” in Congress has sunk. The bill being drafted behind closed doors. The blockage of the reading of the bill on the Senate floor by Harry Reid. The list is endless.
The Senate and the House, the once shining example and benchmark of democracy throughout the world, has now become a hypocritical embarrassment to all Americans, Democrat or Republican.
What started as Sen. Ben Nelson’s personal stand against covering abortion with taxpayer money translated, somehow, into millions of dollars in federal aid for his home state.
The Nebraska Democrat, following weeks of negotiations with his caucus, finally agreed to back the Senate’s health care reform bill this weekend after Democratic leaders made a series of concessions. Nelson’s support gives Democrats the 60 votes they need to overcome a filibuster, barring any last-minute defections.
But critics by Sunday were heavily questioning Nelson’s motivations, given that the abortion restrictions he sought and won did not satisfy several major anti-abortion lawmakers and groups and that it took a major federal payoff to his state to seal the deal.
Critics were calling it the “cornhusker kickback” and the “Nebraska windfall,” lobbing accusations of political deal-making at Nelson.
“It’s pretty obvious votes have been bought,” Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said.
Nelson did win restrictions on abortion coverage, which is what he sought for weeks. Under the compromise, states would be permitted to ban insurance coverage of abortions in policies sold in the exchanges, except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in jeopardy. In states where such coverage is permitted, consumers must notify their insurance company they want it, and pay for it separately.
There is a buzz that Harry Reid will try to ram the Health Care Bill through the Senate on Christmas Eve in an effort to get something, anything passed. Parliamentary procedures have also been violated today when motion to read the bill was by-passed by Harry Reid in an effort to ram the bill through the Senate before Christmas recess. He is really expecting Senators to vote on a bill without having time to read it! Many Democrats are smart enough to say NO to such an insane idea.
Moderate Democrats are also becoming more outraged at the tactics being taken by the far left in their party behind closed doors. Nancy Pelosi has also adjourned the House of Representatives until January of next year.
The President’s reaction? President Obama is reported to having said that America will go bankrupt if the Health Care Bill is not passed! This is one of the most deseperate irresponsible statements yet from the President. The impact that such a comment might have on the U.S. Dollar is likely to be impacted as a result of a shoot from the hip remark like that. The fact of the matter is that its the recent spend spend spend and borrow borrow borrow actions of the Congress and the Administration which are in fact the actions that is pushing the country even further into debt.
Rather than take practical steps like TORT REFORM (ending frivolous lawsuits which everyone knows drives costs up) this Congress is hell bent on turning our entire health care system into a socialized welfare program despite the vast disapproval of the American people. Most Americans (Rasmussen poll today) think that more effort should be focused on rising employment than Health Care. They are hell bent on driving a square peg into a round hell simply to drive a political agenda thumbing their noses at the American people in the process.
It is becoming very clear to moderate Americans that Obama is bitting off way more that our country can handle at a time when our economy can least afford it. A reflection of his lack of real executive leadership experience perhaps. A stronger leader would have cut his losses on Health Care if for nothing else to keep his own party from melting down!
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