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House Minority Leader John Boehner (I don’t care what he says, his name should be pronounced “Boner” today accused President Obama of having a pre-911 mentality based on his administration’s handling of the Christmas “underwear” bombers arrest and detention. The trouble is the policies Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the administration followed were set in place after 911 by the Bush administration and have resulted in the conviction of about 300 terrorists.

Since Boehner/Boner has forgotten everything that has happened since 911, doesn’t that mean he, not the President has the pre-911 mentality?

This is another of the facts optional attacks that the Republicans have thrown at President Obama which show the Republicans to be more interested in scoring political points than what is true or what is good for the country. These folks are corrupt to their very souls.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) plans to introduce legislation that would block funding for the civilian trials of self-confessed 9-11 mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and four co-conspirators, all of whom are currently held at Guantanamo Bay. This amounts to admitting that Al Qaida has defeated our belief in our legal institutions. For myself, I refuse to be such a coward.

All Americans should be aware that—whether we live in Washington D.C., New York City, Fort Hood, or Rat’s Nest California (like me)—without warning we could find ourselves on the front lines in the struggle against terrorism. And with that in mind, we should decide how we are going to respond now!

I say we respond with a roar of, “Screw you guys!

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Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and other commentators on the left have had a screaming good time pointing to errors Republican politicians have made in criticizing President Obama’s response to the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on Northwest flight 253 into Detroit.

True, Senator Jim Demint falsely said Obama has downplayed terrorism and doesn’t use the word terrorism any more. Representative Peter Hoekstra, among other things, falsely said the Obama administration used the term “man made disasters” instead of “terrorism;” and Representative Peter King falsely claimed Obama had banned the use of the word “terrorism” and had even failed to mention terrorism during his address to West Point. All of these assertions can, and have been, easily rebutted with numerous video clips showing Obama and Secretary Clinton talking about the threat of terrorism (as an example, here’s his speech at West Point).

And while it is reassuring for Olbermann, Maddow and their ilk to show us the clips that rebut these Republicans buttholes (doe a butthole really need rebutted?), it has no effect on the right-leaning mass of American voters.

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