Michael Ryan quotes Washington Post pundit, Richard Cohen, who wrote that the Christmas Day bomber was given his Miranda rights and since then his "subsequent silence is a scream that something went wrong." Of course, Mr. Ryan agrees with this ignorant fiction and uses it to criticize the Obama administration for being lax on security issues.
Mr. Ryan didn't read page 5 A of his own newspaper. To be fair, he probably didn't know about it and wrote this editorial before the associated press article was released. Nevertheless, he should write a retraction.
The article I'm referring to is entitled "Nigerian offers intelligence on terror planning," from page 5 of this same edition of the newspaper. Apparently, this news has been leaked. The Christmas Day bomber has cooperated with the FBI and has been giving good information. The Obama administration had been trying to keep this valuable cooperation secret so they can follow leads. Nevertheless, the news debunks critics who claimed that the terrorist would clam up, just because he had been read his rights.
Will Mr. Ryan issue a retraction tomorrow? I wouldn't hold my breath.
Further on in this editorial, which is nothing more than a hodgepodge of his usual baseless criticism of the president, Mr. Ryan writes that the administration wants to levy "more and more taxes on those people and entities that create jobs and which will be key to growth and progress." This is just a lie. Obama is merely letting Bush's unsuccessful, temporary tax cuts for the rich expire. The top rate will go from 36% back to 39% which is the same as it was ten years ago. Big deal.
Hey, those tax cuts were in place for ten years. How did that work out? Didn't we just go into a severe recession? That should be evidence enough that tax cuts do not stimulate the economy, but conservatives will never learn.
Mr. Ryan cries about the big deficit, but he has no credibility on this issue--not since he suggested a moratorium on all income taxes in an earlier column which I discussed in a previous blog entry.
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I've noted before that Cal Thomas is always a day late and a dollar short. In his column "Obama and the republicans," he writes that "the 26 page booklet containing Republican ideas on the economy, jobs, energy and national security...should put to rest the fiction that Republicans have presented no ideas on these and other subjects."
He should have watched the Daily Show with Jon Stewart the other day. Mr. Stewart made fun of the document. He showed that when all the crap, such as the Table of Contents, blank pages, and self-aggrandizing pages, were removed it only contained 4 pages...and the whole thing proved to be obsolete. At the end of the paper, the document claimed that if enacted, these republican policies would solve all our problems by December...of 2009.
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Psychotic letter of the week award goes to Dan Duncan of Aiken. His solution to welfare and foreign aid is to send all of America's poor people to third world countries where they can live like kings because of the lower standard of living in these countries.
Georgia Regional, where are you?
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