Dean: Bush Administration Weak On Defense?
Howard Dean engages in some wishful thinking...
Weak on national security? I'm wiping tears from my eyes because I'm laughing so hard.
I'll grant that there are valid criticisms to be made of the Bush administration on the national security front (such as their refusal to take the illegal immigration problem on our southern border seriously, for one), but to say that President Bush is the "weakest" administration on the issue in "many" years is ludicrous. Especially given the source of this criticism.
Remember last year when these same Democrats, Howard Dean among them, were questioning the timing of every terror alert, claiming that the Bush administration was just trying to keep the public scared? Remember when every rumor about the possible capture/death of Osama bin Laden was treated by Democrats as some sort of electoral tragedy manufactured by GOP politicians for the express purpose of getting Bush re-elected?
These people have made the idea that Republicans take terrorism too seriously central to their criticism of our government's current leadership, yet now they want to tell us that Bush doesn't take terrorism seriously enough?
I know the Democrats think they've found their wedge issue with this ports deal, but if they think they're going to morph themselves into the "national security" party over night they've got another thing coming.
Weak on national security? I'm wiping tears from my eyes because I'm laughing so hard.
I'll grant that there are valid criticisms to be made of the Bush administration on the national security front (such as their refusal to take the illegal immigration problem on our southern border seriously, for one), but to say that President Bush is the "weakest" administration on the issue in "many" years is ludicrous. Especially given the source of this criticism.
Remember last year when these same Democrats, Howard Dean among them, were questioning the timing of every terror alert, claiming that the Bush administration was just trying to keep the public scared? Remember when every rumor about the possible capture/death of Osama bin Laden was treated by Democrats as some sort of electoral tragedy manufactured by GOP politicians for the express purpose of getting Bush re-elected?
These people have made the idea that Republicans take terrorism too seriously central to their criticism of our government's current leadership, yet now they want to tell us that Bush doesn't take terrorism seriously enough?
I know the Democrats think they've found their wedge issue with this ports deal, but if they think they're going to morph themselves into the "national security" party over night they've got another thing coming.
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