This is the best piece of commentary regarding the underwear bomber and The Dear Leader's abysmal response to the, er, incident. D.B. Grady's piece at The Atlantic, titled "Why Heads Should Roll" reads like something out of a horror novel, only it's happening right before our very eyes. A snippet:

In a press conference, President Obama said that our failure to stop the terrorist incident was "not the fault of a single individual or organization." But that's not true. The minute Abdulmutallab's father walked into a U.S. Embassy with news that his son was a potential terrorist, the official in charge was duty-bound to see this through. Every scrap of paper and every byte of data on the suspect should have been called up and frozen. That's why we have embassies. When the information was passed to the first special agent at the CIA, he or she was duty bound to see it through. When the information was passed to the first administrator at the National Counterterrorism Center, he or she, too, was duty bound to see it to the end.

Everyone who read the name "Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab" prior to December 25, 2009 should be reprimanded and fired.

The White House findings state that, "Mr. Abdulmutallab possessed a U.S. visa, but this fact was not correlated with the concerns of Mr. Abdulmutallab's father about Mr. Abdulmutallab's potential radicalization." It's an embarrassing sentence of bureaucratese in its own right, but more so when considered in context. The State Department didn't revoke Abdulmutallab's visa because an office clerk misspelled his name in a database.

Has no one in the intelligence community ever used Google? When "Abdulmutalab" was typed in, did the computer not ask, "Did you mean 'Abdulmutallab'?"

To varying degrees, Americans have little tolerance for politics being played with national security. The Bush Administration's first big sin in Iraq was one of optics: Mission Accomplished. Many years later, that mission is much closer to being accomplished, but there's a long way to go. 

With The Dear Leader, everything is political. His behavior at POTUS has been more regal than Presidential. The exotic vacations, expensive food, good enough for thee but not for me attitude about sacrifice, all of these things that drive me quite bananas. Yet, his handling of the attempted Christmas Day massacre is cruises past surreal and starts stumbling into the dangerously incompetent or coolly indifferent. 

TDL professes to be  a Christian. I no longer believe this be even remotely true, as he does not observe Christian holidays, has only gone to church a few times since being in office (I guess there are no preachers in the greater DC area will to goddamn American and such) and he and his family haven't found a church home, primarily for lack of effort. I bring this up because I ask you this: If a Disgruntled White Male entered an American mosque during Ramadan for a good old-fashioned shooting spree, do you think the President's response would have been so cool and delayed? Do you think he would asked that we not jump to conclusions and what have you? 

Of course not. I don't know if he's a Muslim or not, but he is clearly fascinated by the faith, and strangely timed a 12-day vacation to take place during ... Ramadan.

Why bring up this nastiness? Because my suspicion of TDL as POTUS has soared past political differences: I do not trust for a second that he has the best interest of this country, its institutions and the its people as his motive. What his motive(s) is I have no idea, but I get the sense that he wants to rule, not lead or govern. 

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For the security of the country, the Donkeys need to get some adults in the White House. Our one year experiment in dogmatic leftism has been an unmitigated disaster. Each time a Muslim man massacres or attempts to massacre Americans, we are left with a POTUS who repeatedly refused to admit that we are at war with a militant death cult that is radical Islam. Al-Qaeda as an organization and Osama bin Laden as an individual are only two pieces of this; these networks are spread throughout the world. 

After a series of increasingly hostile speeches over the last two weeks, TDL finally realized that the American people don't think he takes this very specific threat seriously, so he's finally begun using words like "war," "terror" and "al-Qaeda," though he can't bring himself to link this to Islam. Janet Napolitano, the head of our Homeland Security apparatus, came out after the incident and said that the system worked. Then she said she'd been taken out of context. Before we rang in the new year, any competent administrator would have fired her. 

And yet she remains. 

I sent this link out a couple days ago to a few friends, noting I hadn't written about the attempt because to sit and think about it is to become enraged. I have written about it - every day I sit down and write about it, and every day I cannot believe the rabbit hole our country has tumbled down. 

While Donkeys have jacked around for a year trying to force ghastly programs like Obamacare and cap-n-tax down our throats, their leader, our POTUS, has taken his eye so far off the national security ball it's borderline seditious. People across the world who want to kill us have taken notice, and more of these attacks, attempts and god knows what other kinds of terror are in the works. We know this - the underweara bomber said as much (20 men just like him training for missions just like his) until, instead of interrogating him with a waterboard sitting in the corner, we gave him an attorney and Miranda rights. He now sits quietly, and yesterday plead not guilty in the crime of trying to bring down a transcontinental airliner loaded with almost 300 people. 

2010 is going to be a political bloodbath for the Democrats. Anyone who would vote for a Democrat, be they Liberal or Blue Dog, after what we saw in 2009 should have their heads examined. GOPers deserved to lose in 2006 and 2008. However, under Pres. Bush - who TDL continues to blame for everything - I felt secure, and most people in the country felt secure. Bad people around the world saw what Pres. Bush was willing to do if American interests were attacked. Now they see that we've gone from having a soprano with his hand on the trigger to a castrato, bowing before them and laying down his arms. 

The country is in a dangerous place, and I fear that we will be hit hard, repeatedly in the coming year. The underwear bomber was just the beginning, because the word on the street is out: America does not need to be feared for some time. We've put a narcissistic weakling with no executive or military experience in the White House, and it shows. 

How's that hopenchange working out for ya?