Snark of the Day: Jennifer Rubin

The difference is that the Bush administration wasn’t willing to play Russian roulette with Americans lives or hope that detainees would eventually change their minds and co-operate. The Obama administration is. And that should be deeply disturbing to all of

Barack Obama is making history.   He has achieved the greatest presidential communication failure since Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech.

Video:

Charles Krauthammer,  Washington Post:

Any government can through laxity let someone slip through the cracks. But a government that refuses

From Erick Erickson, Red State:

People tell me the President’s rush to acknowledge the attack on the CIA in Afghanistan and mourn the deaths openly, publicly, and via press release is a huge no no. The CIA and greater

Telegraph(UK)

Barack Obama looks tired as he gets in the car after going to see “Avatar’

His care-free children Sasha and Malia were spotted smiling and playing with friends as they took to the water.

But in sharp contrast,

Has anybody seen this person?

Nile Gardner, Telegraph(UK) gets warm:

The White House should send a search party to track down Hillary Clinton. America’s foreign policy chief has been missing from the world stage for several days, and has

Let it never be said that Eric doesn’t know how to bait a co-blogger:

DUKE: WHAT DIDN’T HAPPEN… David’s gonna holler about this. The always pretty Mary Katharine Ham, ripping the Duke fiasco, Mike Nifong, and so on. What’s

The envelope please…. (Drum Roll)

Now for the blog event of the year, the Bitsblog Snark of the Year.  And the winner:

How easy did these people think it was going to be when they decided to elect a man

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid

If a terrorist says he’s al Qaeda, he is, even if he doesn’t have a union card from Jihadi Local 632.

We’re dealing with a global Muslim movement, not a Masons’ lodge.

Ralph Peters, Lt. Colonel, United States Army(retired), New

Note the timing of the dim one’s national security speech.   Janet Napolitano makes her Tour de  Farce on the Sunday talk shows, and by Monday, Barack Obama  is in full damage control mode.

Avi Zenilman, Who Runs Government, seems

Well you can’t rush a good thing.   Instead of making an impromptu speech, the nation’s orator in chief waited three day to give this speech that may well  rival the Gettysburg address, video:

I can just see the Islamists plunging

The bitch is a threat to national security.   Fire her now,  from Johnathan Martin, Politico:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the

Thomas Winston, late of Queens, has assumed morgue temperature.    The whereabouts of  his his dispatcher, whom I will call Bernice Goetz remains unknown,  from Kerry Burke and John Lauinger,  Daily News (New York):

Several thugs tried to drag a woman

Plus Batman and Scooby-Doo,  a review of Sherlock Holmes, from Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post

The House passed one version of Obamacare, and the Senate seems intent on  passing a totally different version.    Will Mrs. Pelosi have the House roll over and endorse Dirty Harry Reid’s bill?  Maybe not.   The chair of the House Rules