This Oughta Help Republicans

So says Kookie Roberts this morning because, as everyone knows when security is the issue, Republicans make us all feel so much safer. Good lord, when is the press going to stop buying into this load of crap? Even the polls don't show that anymore; that the American people are out front on this issue shows how out of touch the MSM really is.

Pundits really need to understand that all but the hardest of hardcore mouth breathers have had it up to their proverbial eye-balls with the scare tactics of BushCo. What most Americans now understand is that it is precisely Bush's inept handling of all matters of foreign policy, diplomacy, and war which has allowed and emboldened North Korea. I know it is too much to ask for anyone in the MSM to ask even the simplest, most rudimentary, even common sense follow-up question to the ridiculous statements.

Let me give you an example from this weekend's Meet the Press:

MR. RUSSERT: Knowing what you know today, knowing what you know today, that Saddam did not have the weapons of destruction that our intelligence agencies thought he had, if you knew that today, would you still vote for the war?

SEN. TALENT: Well, yeah, I mean, I think...

MR. RUSSERT: You still would?

SEN. TALENT: ...it was the—I think it was the only possible strategic choice. Look, Saddam had been an organic threat in the region for a long time. He represented a threat to us. That threat is now gone. Tim, look at what’s not happening.

MR. RUSSERT: But Senator, isn’t it an important question: if, if, if the CIA said to you, “Saddam does not have weapons of biological, chemical, or a nuclear program,” you would still vote for the war?

SEN. TALENT: Well, he wanted them. He was trying to get rid of economic sanctions. He would’ve had $70-a-barrel oil. He’d have been competing with—I mean, if action had not been taken to remove Saddam, the same people who are being critical of what’s going on in Iraq now would be screaming that we’d left him in power. We’d have another Iran there. That threat’s been removed.

That threat's been removed? Wow, takes your breath away, doesn't it? But what threat has been created? Russert failed to ask that question, the most logical follow-up: Senator, the recently partially decalssified NIE says that the war in Iraq has made us less safe, that scores of new jihadists are being created by the minute just because of Iraq. Knowing that the result would be where we are today, you still would have supported the invasion of Iraq?

But he didn't. Talent's opponent McCaskill had to say it.

MS. McCASKILL: Well, I’m certainly not going to Monday morning quarterback the senators and congressmen that voted for this war. I’ve never seen what they saw. Knowing what we know now, absolutely not. And frankly, I’m surprised that Senator Talent would say that knowing what we know now, knowing what is going on in Iraq right now, knowing that we are not more secure and more stable as a result of this conflict, that he agrees that we should repeat that mistake if it came along again.

Jerks.