When I was very young I had a dog that was half husky and God knows what.  There were rumors that a wolf might have been involved.  In any event, he loved to howl at the moon.  But, after several years of intensive effort, this technique never accomplished much, other than to annoy the heck out of our neighbors.  This is similar to the Obama administration’s attempt to stop terrorism by howling at the Tea Party movement.

The main stream media was desperately hoping that the failed bombing attempt in NYC would be linked to the Tea Party movement.  Mayor Bloomberg made the following response to a question from the ever brilliant Katie Couric: 

If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that … Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something

The administration was very careful to avoid using the word terrorism for several hours.  Notice that the initial description was of a 40 year old white male.  That is what they hoped to find.   They wanted another Timothy McVeigh.

Instead they got, shock, a U.S. citizen who just happened to be a Muslim that had recently visited Pakistan for several months on vacation.  Hmmm.  Seems to me there is someone else we know who did that.   Oh well. 

It is already obvious that NYC dodged a bullet only because this guy botched the job.  They had no clue, although there are already reports that he was on a watch list.  But, it would be just plain wrong to investigate someone just because he is a Muslim and he goes on an extended vacation to a garden spot like Pakistan.    That would be so politically incorrect.  Instead we need to use our resources to watch the dangerous Tea Party people.  I mean just watch the recent video of those violent demonstrations.   Hasn’t anyone seen the outrageous violence connected with these people (Oops…I got it confused with the video of the protests against the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law).

It just makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over to see Attorney General Eric Holder personally managing this investigation.  I sure hope we read this guy his Miranda rights and got him a really good attorney.  Oops.  Another mistake.  We should have forced him to watch the Obama administration’s PowerPoint presentation on Afghanistan.  Who knows, that might have resulted in the highly desired connection to the Tea Party movement.

 TDM