The "No" Party Adds Ridiculous Blame

Dear editor:

The “NO” party leaders are at it again, to the point that they ought to change the name of their party from GOP to “NO”P. Now they are blaming the president himself for the unsuccessful close call on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdelmutallab tried to blow up the plane as it was approaching Detroit Airport. Perhaps with weird thinking like this we ought to blame the successful attacks of 9/11 on President Bush. Ridiculous? Of course it is. Partisan and hurtful to our democratic process? Absolutely. And true in both cases. Blame like this accomplishes nothing other than giving comfort to our enemies.

Michigan’s Peter Hoekstra, the Republican’s ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, declared on Fox News Sunday that the Obama administration should be held accountable for this aborted attack on our country. He asserted that this was a troubling pattern of administration neglect on preparedness stemming from a failure to recognize essential dangers. This is nothing more than “Cheneythink” which will say anything, using any derogatory terms to strike out at the president and the majority party.

Let me remind Rep. Hoekstra of a saying that the Grand Old Party said over and over again to Democrats after the 2000 debacle of the presidential election….”you lost, now get over it.” And may I add, get to work.