Let’s not forget that more than half of Democrats believed that George Bush knew about the attacks, and let them happen/made them happen. There are many other similar polls. But, hey, yeah, we’re the crazy ones
Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate
And that, America, is frightening. Peel back the boasting and insults, the lies and exaggerations common to any presidential campaign. What remains is a collection of assertions so untrue, so bizarre, that they form a vision as surreal as the Ronald Reagan jet looming behind the candidates’ lecterns.
It felt at times as if the speakers were no longer living in a fact-based world where actions have consequences, programs take money and money has to come from somewhere. Where basic laws — like physics and the Constitution — constrain wishes. Where Congress and the public, allies and enemies, markets and militaries don’t just do what you want them to, just because you say they will.
They whine about immigration, then the Times’ editorial board says that illegal immigration isn’t even a problem. Perhaps we should ask all those who’ve had their identities stolen, those who’ve lost their jobs, and those who’ve seen depressed wages. Or the family of Kate Steinle.
Then they want to capitulate to Iran and Russia. Then
Jeb Bush spun a particularly repellent fantasy. Speaking reverently of his brother the president, he said, “He kept us safe,†and invoked the carnage of 9/11. Wait, what? Did he mean George W. Bush, who was warned about the threat that Al Qaeda would attack? Who then invaded a non sequitur country, Iraq, over a nonexistent threat?
There’s the August 6 PDB yammering, something the 9/11 Truth movement loves to trot out. A briefing with no actionable intelligence. Kinda like saying “hey, someone might break into your house.” If Bush had instituted any policies to attempt to stop this, such as profiling Muslim men entering the US, the same NY Times would have gone ballistic. Of course, most were already here, having trained in the US under the Clinton policies.
As for Iraq, nearly every single Democrat, foreign intelligence service, and, hey, even the NY Times thought Iraq was a threat. How soon these Truthers forget. Well, not really forget as much as rewrite history.
