We saw it after Ft. Hood and now we are seeing it again – a Republican Party that cares nothing about actual terrorism, but rather playing politics with it. A perfect example of this is Mary Matalin, who said on CNN yesterday that Bush “inherited” the 9/11 attacks.
Inherited to the point that Bush ignored a memo in August of 2001 stating “Bin Laden determined to attack the United States” and even that he was going to use airplanes.
But it’s interesting. I have heard numerous Democrats talk about the failures of the Bush administration and Clinton administration when it comes to the 9/11 attacks. That’s just like Ft. Hood and Detroit – both men were “on the radar” under the Obama administration and Bush administration, yet if you bring that up to Republicans you get accused of “shifting the blame” or “looking backwards”.
Instead of addressing the problems that allowed both men to slip through the system, the Republicans would much rather play politics. This is also evident when Republicans claim that Detroit was a terrorist attack, yet Richard Reid wasn’t. Both cases are extremely similar and to claim one was an attack and the other wasn’t is again, playing politics with the issue.
Adding….Something off-topic here, but Matalin also said that Bush inherited a recession and that he lowered unemployment to 5%. As Atrios points out, he lowered it to 5.7% and it eventually rose back up to 6.3%. What’s even more interesting is if anyone points out that Obama inherited this awful recession from Bush then people like Matalin accuse them of looking backwards. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.