At Its Core The Republican "Case" Is A Sham-- They Didn't Keep Us Safe At All

Crazed and rejected, the GOP Left Behinds have nothing better to do than carp and complain that Obama is making America less safe. Experienced from years of their bullshit, no one believes them-- except themselves. Jack Goldsmith is a professor at Harvard Law, a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law, and a former Assistant Attorney General in the Bush Regime. I doubt Cheney has enjoyed reading his book, The Terror Presidency: Law And Judgment Inside The Bush Administration. Nor will Cheney or any of the other apologists for the Bush years find much solace in a NeoCon-lite examination of why President Obama is waging a more effective war on terror than Bush did, The Cheney Fallacy in the current issue of The New Republic. I'm no fan of Goldsmith's but his readers can't walk away still buying the absurd premises pushed by the Inside the Beltway media that Cheney is a serious voice rather than a pathetic sore loser and lightweight hack.

Despite the media spin, polls show that most Americans prefer Obama's national security policies. They see Obama as a countervailing force between "the liberal left," whatever that's supposed to mean, and Dick Cheney. Most Americans think Obama is doing a better job-- by a 2 to 1 margin-- than Bush did. Like me, I bet a lot of Americans cringe when they hear toadies like Cheney and Sean Hannity claiming, as though any sentient being would ever buy their snake oil, that "Bush kept us safe." Bush didn't keep us safe; Bush was a vital part of the 9/11 tragedy. He failed to keep us safe and then compounded the damage with his wrongheaded, opportunistic responses from the next seven catastrophic years. The worst president in the history of the United States didn't acquire that sobriquet by keeping the nation safe.

You may have seen (or read about) former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura-- an ex-Navy Seal who's experienced waterboarding-- on >The View or on Larry King's show
He made the point that George W. Bush was the worst president of his lifetime and offered to waterboard Dick Cheney.

"It's drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning... I'll put it to you this way: You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.... I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it, because torture is against the law.

Yesterday he absolutely pulverized Sean Hannity on his own show. Take a look: