Ridge Confirms Terror Alerts Politically Motivated

His approval rating is still over twice W's, and the ARRA has been successful in arresting economic decline....thanks for playing dog.

 

really? looks more like cardiac arrest to me.

 

You must have made a killing then by shorting the equity markets then for the last 6 months!

 

Because the DHS is responsible for raising and lowering terror alerts?

 

Then Rumsfeld should have no qualms about being subpoenaed and giving testimony in a court of law and while we're at it we have some questions about that cluster*** of a war that he orchestrated in Iraq.

 

I always felt this way.
If you leave a snake in the road on the way there
it can bite you on the way back

By allowing these folx to go free
1. he Enboldened them
2. He allowed them make trouble now

Rocket River

 

They won't ask you. The vast majority of people won't care.

 

Ridge said he wasn't sure if they were politically motivated, but he suspected they might be. I've got another angle. Perhaps Bush thought that with AQ's successful bombings in Madrid three days before their election in March of '04, AQ might try something similar here. Maybe, just maybe, he was actually concerned for the safety of Americans.

Seriously, the Bush hate just needs to subside. He's gone and not coming back. I guarantee you nothing will ever come of it because Obama won't want everything in his Presidency drug through all kinds of investigations after he is no longer President. (PLEASE NOTE: This does not imply that I think Obama is doing something illegal. It simply means that I do not think Obama would want to set the precedent for retaliatory partisan investigations every time the party in power changes.).

 

The fact that Obama refuses to investigate just about anything that Bush, Cheney and the rest did during their time in office makes him a failure in my book. The one thing I, a foreign born person, cherish the most about America is its emphasis on Law and Order, and I regard the safeguarding of the integrity of the system and ensuring that NO ONE is above the law to be of the utmost importance. At least just as important, if not more so, than the ability to vote. I would personally hold a blood monarchy with a coherent legal system in a higher regard than that of a corrupt democracy. Nothing should be more sacred in a society than the pursuit of justice, and a nation that discards the pursuit of justice because it is inconvenient deserves what's coming its way.

I tend to have some conservative tendencies but I absolutely do believe Obama should set up an independent body to investigate the immensely corrupt and shady Bush administration. The only reason he is not doing that, and I think everyone here on both sides of the aisle would freely admit to this, is out of self-interest. It would set a bad precedent for himself and his administration once it vacates the White House, that is Obama's only concern.

 

I disagree that Obama should be investigating the past Admin. Obama and the country has a lot on its plate right now and we see how contentious issues like health care are. If people want to see health care or anything else major passed the last thing you want is for the Admin to be bogged down in investigations of the prior Admin..

We have enough issues now than to worry about punishing the previous Admin. They are out of power, their party is weakened and history probably won't treat them kindly. A public inquisition of them isn't going to do much to help the current problems we face.

 

[rquoter]"After that episode, I knew I had to follow through with my plans to leave the federal government for the private sector."

He submitted his resignation within the month.[/rquoter]

[rquoter]Threat-level warnings became a subject of controversy in 2004 after one rise was declared just days after the Democratic National Convention that summer.

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"We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland of Security," Ridge said at the time.

In the book, he admits that the public skepticism that greeted that warning helped inform his thinking heading into the pre-election discussion. [/rquoter]

Apparently they were two different scenarios. First after the DNC and then just before the election.​

Quotes from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103036.html?hpid=topnews

 

don't cry for me Obamtina

 

Is her middle name really "Frago?"

Alaskan?

 

What happens in 200 days can only be seen as partial failure or partial success. We've been able to see Bush's whole 8 years.

As for disapproval ratings, it is the people who are doing the bidding of insurance companies and lying about health care reform that are responsible.