25 November 2004 Blog Home : November 2004 : Permalink
This is surely a first. Maureen Dowd - known for her liberal rants masquerading as NY Times Columns - writes things today that Michelle Malkin has stated many times. Here's part of Maureen's column:
...Somebody tell me what quantity of explosive material they have found through these strip searches, because I've got a hunch it's zero. How many billions are they wasting on this?
Maybe we're not at the Philip K. Dick level of technology yet. But how about some positive profiling?
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Only 3 to 5 percent of containers coming into ports are checked, and only a tiny percentage of air, rail and truck cargo is inspected. Congress is turning homeland security money into another avenue of pork. Tom Ridge is still making fuzzy ads telling people to have a plan of action and referring them to his Web site, which hasn't gotten much beyond duct tape.
If we were buttoning up the borders and making the airlines safer, unbuttoning in public would be more bearable.
And here is the "Asian Ann Coulter" in Seattle saying:
... you cannot ban the use of profiling in pursuing homeland security and expect to win the war.
and then here she lays into Bush about open borders and pork at the DHS:
You know what makes me nervous about President Bush? It's not his facial expressions. Nor his verbal clumsiness. I don't care about his alleged weakness at the podium. What concerns me more than anything else is his demonstrated weakness at our borders.
Immigration enforcement is the six-ton elephant in the room. Barely two sentences were devoted to border control in the first presidential debate, despite the fact that the major issue of the showdown was leadership on national security. Both President Bush and Sen. Kerry bloviated about throwing more money at the Department of Homeland Security, while ignoring the fundamental problem: Our immigration laws are being broken en masse because America is unwilling to enforce them -- clearly, consistently and unapologetically -- until it is too late.
As someone who has generally considered Maureen Dowd to be the US equivalent of Yasmin Alibi-Brownshirt - a prime example of the Stephen Pollard's Jenkins Rule that when that person speaks in favour of X you know it is bad and vice versa - this is worrying. Still I suppose that even stopped clocks are right twice a day so just possibly November 25th is Maureen's day to be right. Of course she doesn't get it completely right - there is bit that shows that she hasn't quite grasped the way that the moronic TSA is not in fact profling people, negatively or positively or at least not doing it properly as we learned when reading about the Annie Jacobsen story earlier this year.