Legal Insurrection says Pete Hoekstra is owed an apology:
Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) commented soon after the attempted bombing of an airplane over Detroit that the Obama administration needed to do a better job at connecting the dots regarding terror threats from Yemen:
“People have got to start connecting the dots here and maybe this is the thing that will connect the dots for the Obama administration.”
Think Progress immediately went into attack mode. Not against al-Qaeda or the officials who failed to prevent this near-disaster, but against Hoekstra for “politicizing” the issue. And the left-wing blogosphere responded to the Think Progress whistle, attacking Hoekstra and dismissing the incident as a “joke’ and nothing to “fear.”
There’s a lot of backpeddling going on now. Notwithstanding Janet Napolitano’s ridiculous statements that “the system worked,” it seems clear at this point that the Pantybomber posed a real danger and that danger was known in advance to the people who are supposed to protect us.
But real dangers and real terrorists don’t fit the Narrative. Dick Cheney said it well. And, I’m afraid, the Narrative will continue to trump common sense at virtually every level of this administration.
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