I smell a political backfire on the GOP

[gulliver]

CNN had a piece about how we are now going to have our vital liquids confiscated before boarding a plane. And there was Chertoff, poster boy for the Katrina debacle, up there on the screen. I couldn't help thinking about how close to being on America's last nerve these people are.

America is already laughing at the old idiotic delays at the airport while a bunch of underpaid flunkies run their wands over grandma and little kids. Everyone knows or should know that the dangers of liquids and other things have always been there. Now the Bushies want us to thank them for this latest tangible proof of their failure.

DU has been all over it. I've seen some great points made here.

Do you mean to tell us that the Bushies have been letting these dangerous liquids on airplanes for five years after 9/11? What were they thinking? If this plot was dangerous enough to crow about like they have, why didn't Bush's crew of highly paid geniuses think of it before? Do we only do stupid things like wars preemptively? What about thinking about security problems before the plotters think of them? Where are our genius protectors? Looks like the UK.

Did the Iraq War help us capture these plotters? What specific part of the Iraq War resulted in the capture of these bad guys?

America is not going to like new travel restrictions on the face of it. We were supposed to be getting somewhere by "cleaning up the Middle East with the power of pride." But now everything just seems to be getting worse and worse. Did we fight a $300 billion dollar, 2,600-life war to be told we now have to watch what liquids we take on planes? Sad to say, but little indignities like that affect many Americans more than thousands of painful deaths and hundreds of billions of dollars embezzled from our children as deficits.

The GOP is sitting on a powderkeg on this one.

[Oceansaway]

1. TOUCHE !!..n/t

[Olney Blue]

2. Drip Drip Drip

Leak Leak Leak

The GOP is not good with liquids.

[Monkeyman]

3. BOOBARANG boom

[LeftCoast]

4. I've also detected something of a change from the usual media song'n'dance

It's as if the spin suddenly isn't working this time. I can only hope this is true!

[Nikki Stone 1]

5. Where? I'd love to know if the press is finally acting intelligent.

Thanks

[LeftCoast]

8. Not too much tangible evidence in the media yet

One user just posted about a poll mentioned on CNN which said that Dems are up in the polls on handling terror. Hagel pushing back on Cheney's comments. Dems remarkably united and loud in pushing back on the the latest RW spin that a vote for Dems = a win for terrorism. Also, specifically on the issue of the airport restrictions I'm hearing most people I talk to just laughing about how stupid it all is.

I think we'll know pretty quickly if this latest Rovian push is going to flop like a bad souffle. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :)

[ixion]

6. I haven't like the travel restrictions for years... now it is not even an

option, as far as I'm concerned.

[TheFarseer]

7. I think people are just starting to wake up

you see how Joe Lieberman - a man who supported the president in the war on terror - lost the elections and emboldened the terrorists to go forth with this plot. If we had supported the president and won the war in Iraq instead of undermining the effort to free Iraq from tyranny, this kind of thing wouldn't happen. Isn't this about how their argument goes now?

[MichiganVote]

9. They are waging a pissing match with the ME & Russia for oil/gas

Trouble is, these people never know when to quit. Americans will have to teach them all over again, generation after generation. So long as they feel entitled to the greed they engender, we will fall victims until we become victorious.

[opihimoimoi]

10. The Pubs cannot/willnot CREATE...instead, they DICTATE.....

The Non Creative Bastards PRETEND to Solve things but instead, they BS with More BS and when shit hits the fan, they ..REACT, as in this latest shit about this threads....kinda pretending to be on top of things...? But we know diff.

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The GOP looking Bad...5 years and no "Wins"...its been all BS and Spin from the Pubs.

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The worse SIN of all?; Them Pubs teaching their young ones how to LIE CHEAL STEAL

It took a large group to pull off 2000 and '04....many of them young Pubs learning evil ways...WTF kine of Party is THAT?

Our Democratic Party Base Philosophy minimizes this kind of behavior

[rodeodance]

11. my impression is that very few knew of liquid explosives

Everyone knows or should know that the dangers of liquids and other things have always been there.