Um, what?

Peggums Noonan, provides the Underwood Deviled Ham treatment of policy:

But it comes at a key moment for Mr. Obama, because it gives him a certain amount of cover to be serious about what needs to be done. What's at stake for him is two words. When Republicans say, in coming years, "At least Bush kept us safe," Democrats will not want tacked onto the end of that sentence, "unlike Obama."

Yeah, it was really awesome when Bush prevented the worst terrorist attack in the history of the country and prevented the death of 3,000 people and then used it to start a completely needless and unrelated war in a different country. That was fuckin' amazing.