Good, the Republican pussy party is finally growing a pair. When Obama's lax security policies lead us to another terrorist attack, the midterm elections of 2010 will leave you guys in tears.
Let's say the U.S. gets hit on July 4 -- which president do we blame it on?
Ever heard of "sleeper cells"? Al Qaeda, under cover of idiots who have been getting caught, could easily have infiltrated ten more sets of teams like those who carried out 9/11, during the Bush years. They could be sitting here waiting. There may even be some from the Clinton years, sitting quietly, pretending to be Americans and laughing at all our security efforts.
As porous as our borders are, there could be a nuke in Denver, one in Dallas, another in St. Louis. They could be sitting in storage somewhere, waiting for something like the President's favorite team to be in the Super Bowl, or some other chance to get some real emotional impact. There could be nukes in old, unused sewer systems, or abandoned mining tunnels near rail lines, or rusting unused industrial sites, or any number of places where radiation isn't so easy to detect, especially when no one's looking.
What better for a terrorist organization than to wait until we have a new President, and then, after years of waiting, strike at a moment designed to make him look unprepared and ineffective.
Obama could use some economic stimulus money to build a wall along our southern border and man it with volunteers in guard towers, put a couple of armored and a couple more reconnaissance brigades along the Canadian border, triple the size of the Coast Guard (not a bad idea anyway), and monitor the entire border with drones 24/7 -- and still not stop a major terrorist attack, because odds are that the next teams are already here.
And since we're talking economic stimulus, building that wall and massively increasing the size of the Coast Guard aren't bad ideas.
The question is: if Obama added those, would the GOP support it?
