This has been a very disquieting week ever since the Paris attack.
To be sure, on it's on terms that was a terrible thing. But the real threat with ISIS is that we let them goad us into doing the wrong thing.
What is the wrong thing? Well, the short answer is anything they suggest on Fox News. There's a reason Fox News is ISIS's favorite cable news channel.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2015/05/12/cnns-fareed-zakaria-hypes-fox-news-favorite-isis
This week we got a taste of what the looks like when for no good reason, 47 Dems gave the House a veto proof majority in effectively halting Syrian refugees from coming to the US.
This is itself a clear ISIS objective-to make us turn against ISIS' refugees in Syria and Iraq. So Hollande, who's nation was attacked, increased the number of refugees to his country, while we decreased ours to zero-if this bill passes the Senate which Harry Reid assures us it won't.
I have been a bit cagey myself lately, just wondering how far we might go in the name of security. Surely the nation isn't going to go Dick Cheney again so soon.
Cheney basically believed that all civil lierties can be suspended forever if need be in the name of 'national security.'
Probably gun rights would be the exception to that.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/11/when-reagan-and-nra-were-for-gun-control.html
That's the one risk conservatives are willing to take.
Last night it lookd like maybe even the odious David Vitter could be saved by refugee fear mongering.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/11/will-syrian-refugee-fear-mongering-save.html
But the good news is in-he is so bad taht even fear mongering won't save him. This shows there may be some natural limit to the politics of fear and security.
"With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards, soundly defeated United States Senator David Vitter in a runoff election on Saturday to become the next governor of Louisiana."
"A more promising red state Democrat could hardly have been found than Mr. Edwards, a Catholic social conservative from a family of rural law enforcement officers who graduated from West Point and served eight years of active duty in the Army."
"Mr. Vitter, for his part, was a problematic candidate for Republicans, even though he had been widely seen as the favorite for months. A prostitution scandal from 2007 became central to the race. The complicated baggage of an unpopular Republican incumbent, Gov. Bobby Jindal, and a line of state political foes with long memories also dragged him down in the final days before the Oct 24 primary. He never recovered."
"Not only did he lose this race but Mr. Vitter told supporters Saturday night that he would not run for re-election to the Senate in 2016. Republican strategists in Washington had expressed reluctance to put money behind him, preferring a candidate who would be an easier sell in an election year that already looks tricky for Senate Republicans. A line of Republicans interested in the seat has already formed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/democrat-john-edwards-david-vitter-louisiana.html
To be sure, on it's on terms that was a terrible thing. But the real threat with ISIS is that we let them goad us into doing the wrong thing.
What is the wrong thing? Well, the short answer is anything they suggest on Fox News. There's a reason Fox News is ISIS's favorite cable news channel.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2015/05/12/cnns-fareed-zakaria-hypes-fox-news-favorite-isis
This week we got a taste of what the looks like when for no good reason, 47 Dems gave the House a veto proof majority in effectively halting Syrian refugees from coming to the US.
This is itself a clear ISIS objective-to make us turn against ISIS' refugees in Syria and Iraq. So Hollande, who's nation was attacked, increased the number of refugees to his country, while we decreased ours to zero-if this bill passes the Senate which Harry Reid assures us it won't.
I have been a bit cagey myself lately, just wondering how far we might go in the name of security. Surely the nation isn't going to go Dick Cheney again so soon.
Cheney basically believed that all civil lierties can be suspended forever if need be in the name of 'national security.'
Probably gun rights would be the exception to that.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/11/when-reagan-and-nra-were-for-gun-control.html
That's the one risk conservatives are willing to take.
Last night it lookd like maybe even the odious David Vitter could be saved by refugee fear mongering.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/11/will-syrian-refugee-fear-mongering-save.html
But the good news is in-he is so bad taht even fear mongering won't save him. This shows there may be some natural limit to the politics of fear and security.
"With a victory that defied political geography and near universal predictions from just months earlier, a previously little-known Democrat, State Representative John Bel Edwards, soundly defeated United States Senator David Vitter in a runoff election on Saturday to become the next governor of Louisiana."
"A more promising red state Democrat could hardly have been found than Mr. Edwards, a Catholic social conservative from a family of rural law enforcement officers who graduated from West Point and served eight years of active duty in the Army."
"Mr. Vitter, for his part, was a problematic candidate for Republicans, even though he had been widely seen as the favorite for months. A prostitution scandal from 2007 became central to the race. The complicated baggage of an unpopular Republican incumbent, Gov. Bobby Jindal, and a line of state political foes with long memories also dragged him down in the final days before the Oct 24 primary. He never recovered."
"Not only did he lose this race but Mr. Vitter told supporters Saturday night that he would not run for re-election to the Senate in 2016. Republican strategists in Washington had expressed reluctance to put money behind him, preferring a candidate who would be an easier sell in an election year that already looks tricky for Senate Republicans. A line of Republicans interested in the seat has already formed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/democrat-john-edwards-david-vitter-louisiana.html
Vitter was so unpopular that even major state Republicans backed Edwards. Jindal's quixotic campaign for President ended this week and the irony is, Jindal is less popular in Louisiana than President Obama himself.
So with GOPers feuding with each other, Edwards is the first Democrat to hold statewide office since 2008. It's clear why Jindal thought he could unite the nation.
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