The mantra of the day: There were no attacks under George Bush after 9/11. Learn it, love it, live it.

For all his faults, George Bush did protect the homeland.

For all his faults, Obama continues to multiply the number of his faults. I quit counting.

As Obama continues to quickly move to a 9/10 mentality that President Clinton would be proud of, the President’s approval of Attorney General Eric Holder’s investigation of the CIA, combined with other political moves designed to weaken our national security and the ability of our intelligence community to gather information and protect this country, is a dereliction of duty of the highest order. Should any future attack on this country occur, there will be blood on the hands of not only Obama and Eric Holder, but any liberal in Congress who does not step up now and declare their own contempt for any action that strengthens our enemies while weakening this country thereby putting all of us at greater risk.

A resolution should immediately be put forward in the House and Senate condemning Eric Holder and the CIA investigation. Let there be a full accounting within Congress of those who stand for and against the safety of this country. That way, we can remember in 2010 and 2012 who is on the side of our enemies and who is on the side of America. And let this resolution be brought to the floor of both Chambers every single day until election day in 2010, and every single day after that until 2012. High Treason is at hand, and let it be recognized for what it is, for what Eric Holder and Obama are doing is providing aid and comfort to our enemies by pulling out the rug from under the CIA and all but muting their ability to protect us all. And make no mistake, the damage is already done and Attorney General Eric Holder should immediately be fired. Should we be attacked again, don’t look for American’s to rally around a President directly responsible for enabling the enemies of our country. Look for America to hold Obama accountable, for this is within his control to stop.

Obama is not Harry Houdini, and the American people are actually smarter than most of the liberals in Congress, as recently evidenced by the fact that many of us actually read HR3200. Try as he might, escaping the obvious is impossible not only for Obama, but for many Democrats in Congress to dense to realize that chaining themselves to the leftists of their party is actually not in their best political interests.

Jennifer Rubin writes in Commentary Magazine The Commander in Chief Hides, but nobody is fooled, for the attorney general serves at the pleasure of the president:

The president has been playing the “Look, Ma—no hands!” game for the better part of a week, denying responsibility for the decision to name a special prosecutor to go after CIA operatives interrogating terrorists overseas. Democrats are ignoring the whole thing, now dimly aware that this is not the sort of thing the public likes. Conservatives are furious and taking the president to task for his refusal to take responsibility for the decision—or fire Attorney General Eric Holder if this isn’t what the president wanted.

Michael Barone, recalling that Harry Truman sacked an attorney general, writes:

Obama administration spokesmen are portraying the president as unable to overrule Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to have a special prosecutor determine whether to prosecute CIA interrogators who were cleared by Department of Justice career attorneys back in 2004. “This was not something the White House allowed, this was something the AG decided,” a White House spokesman said. Utter nonsense. The attorney general serves at the pleasure of the president, and the president can determine that a prosecution would undermine the national security—a subject on which he has a wider perspective and a greater responsibility than the attorney general—and order that it not go forward.

[. . .]

If Barack Obama really meant it when he said that he didn’t want to see prosecutions of CIA interrogators for acts committed long ago, for which they were cleared long ago, he has a ready alternative: he can give Eric Holder the same treatment Harry Truman gave [his attorney general] J. Howard McGrath.

Newt Gingrich makes a similar suggestion. And Rep. Pete Hoekstra, ranking minority member on the House Intelligence Committee, is outraged that Holder is conducting his own war on CIA personnel—over the strenuous and entirely ignored objections of Leon Panetta. We are left wondering why the president prefers to hide, copping to managerial ineptness and timidity. This is no way to score points with the netroots and liberals on the Hill. They are expecting a robust series of investigations and prosecutions and can’t be impressed with the president’s timidity. (And he will come off the Martha Vineyard’s golf course eventually and face some questions about all this.)

So if Obama does not support the actions of AG Eric Holder, then its time for Mr. Holder to hear the words popularized by Donald Trump…”You’re fired”. Should Obama wish to pander to the left wing of his base then he will hear those very words himself in 2012, although in my opinion he already is beyond the point of redemption and each of us will be treated to his skulking out the back door of the White House in 2013.

Obama can also signal his intent to use the power of the Presidential Pardon for any convictions that result from the investigation. The problem with this approach is that it will be too late to reverse the serious damage to our national security by politically motivated assaults on its very infrastructure. And it would be weak – good luck finding twelve jurors to convict on the ground of the interrogations themselves. Sure, you may get a perjury conviction – maybe. So the entire show is obviously a political circus that puts everyone at risk. Play politics with my life and the life of those I love and you will have one very, very motivated voter. Sure you want to do that?

In a nutshell:

• The House and Senate should pass a resolution condemning the witch hunt Eric Holder is conducting. This resolution should be brought to the floor every day until the 2010 elections and, if necessary, everyday after that until the 2012 elections. Legislators serious about national security should immediately seek other solutions to put an end to this madness before our intelligence community is irreparably damaged.
• Obama should fire Attorney General Eric Holder. If he does not, then he is explicitly, not implicitly, allowing the investigation to continue as it is within his power to put an end to this.
• Unless Obama reverses direction on this and any other policies which continue to weaken our security then he is personally responsible for any attack within our borders or against American citizens abroad that could have been avoided with the policies in place under George W. Bush made now defunct under Obama.

In the days ahead, we will know who is for protecting American families and who is against it. Those against security will pay for their misplaced loyalties.

In other news and opinion:

Goodbye War In Afghanistan?. Go ahead Obama, piss on graves of over three thousand dead men, women, an children. Remember. Remember. Remember.

I saw this one coming: Republican Promises To Reverse Obamacare If GOP Wins In 2012. Encouraging to hear, but trust me, no guarantee. Keep the pressure up – I would rather see ObamaCare die this year. Trust me, it can be done.

Wackjob science czar to appear on David Letterman

Tom Ridge: Straight to the remainder bin

Monday morning quick hits: Gadhafi, Haditha, Dingy Harry & more

Ridge: Sorry, Just Trying To Sell My Book. Pinhead.

The Kennedy Watch

WaPo Asks: Is That a Recovery in Your Pants?. Using underwear as an economic barometer. Now I have seen and heard everything. I can just hear it now: “Wall street saw a sharp decline today after the release of the latest Tighty Whitey Index indicated men are going commando in a sure sign the economy is in big trouble.”

Cheney Wins. Of course he does. Never bet against a real man and a real American.

Harry Reid cheers unemployment in Las Vegas media!

Gibbs accuses Bush/Cheney of “underresourcing” the whitewashed war on terror

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