Conservative Rumblings

Honestly, it wasn’t even close. It was a solid debate overall for these two, and the divide between the haves and have nots tonight couldn’t be bigger.

Tim Pawlenty came out of the gate very strong, absolutely hammering Obama on the Boeing debacle (”preposterous” decision and “outrageous” line that the admin has crossed) and then very eloquently thrashing Obamacare being rammed down our throats (”The answer to our healthcare problem is not to drag it into D.C. and create a top-down, federal run system.”)

Pawlenty was also subject to some of the harder grilling by FNC personalities, including Juan Williams coming after him on intelligent design and Chris Wallace bringing up Pawlenty’s toe-dip into cap and trade (which he has repeatedly called a mistake) and questioned his budget credentials (which Pawlenty quickly and succinctly defended).

In a word: presidential. In the interest of fairness, I should point out I have been a T-Paw supporter for a LONG time, so I was waiting for him to come out with some fire in his belly and show some spirit. He did tonight.

Herman Cain, the businessman with no political experience, had some of the best one liners of the night, and was definitely a lightning rod. He certainly has the fire, and he has the tea party following, but honestly I am still not a believer that he can win the general election. He’s going to go a long way toward keeping everyone else on stage honest, though. One of his better lines was his response to if Obama had a shoe-in for re-election due to Osama killing:

Rick Santorum was his usual bombastic self, hammering away with some great-sounding quotes on foreign policy, attacking Obama over spending and really harping away at a lot of social issues that repeatedly got asked to him. Someone must have given him the memo that he needed to answer everything through gritted teeth, though. Very angry dude tonight.

Gary Johnson, well, I’ll let someone more attractive than me describe his debate participation:

You have a guy coming out to a Republican debate who advocates legal abortion “until a fetus is viable” (what does that even mean?), pushes for legalized pot and generally takes a myriad of other positions usually reserved for hemp-wearing hippies and 87 year old former KKK members residing in the Democratic Party. He honestly would have been the comic relief of the night if not for…

Ron Paul. All over the map as usual, the libertarian doctor continued to build upon his legend of absurd comments & insanely rude supporters. From rants on “nation building” within 10 seconds of his first opening statement, to tirades on gold & militarism and a fantastically awkward exchange with Chris Wallace where he advocated for “heroin” and “prostitutes,” Ron Paul was at his absolute best tonight.

And by “best” I of course mean completely and utterly out of his mind, but you know, it’s good TV.

Can’t wait for the next debate. Maybe Romney will show up so the GOP candidates can actually mock him in person.

Alabama - Safe R Hold
Alaska - Miller 40%, McAdams 29%, Murkowski 22% (GOP Hold)
Arizona - Safe R Hold
Arkansas - Boozman 61%, Lincoln 33% (GOP Pickup)
California - Boxer 51%, Fiorina 46% (Democrat Hold)
Colorado - Buck 50%, Bennett 48% (GOP Pickup)
Connecticut - Blumenthal 52%, McMahon 47% (Democrat Hold)
Delaware - Coons 57%, O’Donnell 40% (Democrat Hold)
Florida - Rubio 52%, Crist 26%, Meek 18% (GOP Hold)
Georgia - Safe R Hold
Hawaii - Safe D Hold
Idaho - Safe R Hold
Illinois - Kirk 48%, Giannoulias 47% (GOP Pickup)
Indiana - Coats 59%, Ellsworth 39% (GOP Pickup)
Iowa - Safe R Hold
Kansas - Safe R Hold
Kentucky - Paul 54%, Conway 43% (GOP Hold)
Louisiana - Safe R Hold
Maryland - Safe D Hold
Missouri - Blunt 51%, Carnahan 48% (GOP Hold)
N. Hampshire - Ayotte 50%, Hodes 47% (GOP Hold)
Nevada - Angle 48%, Reid 48% (GOP Pickup)
New York Safe D Hold
New York (S) - Safe D Hold
North Carolina - Safe R Hold
North Dakota - Hoeven 69%, Potter 29% (GOP Pickup)
Ohio - Portman 56%, Fisher 33% (GOP Hold)
Oklahoma - Safe R Hold
Oregon - Safe D Hold
Pennsylvania - Toomy 51%, Sestak 45% (GOP Pickup)
South Carolina - Safe R Hold
South Dakota - Safe R Hold
Utah - Safe R Hold
Vermont - Safe D Hold
Washington - Rossi 49%, Murray 47% (GOP Pickup)
West Virginia - Raese 49%, Manchin 47% (GOP Pickup)
Wisconsin - Johnson 55%, Feingold 43% (GOP Pickup)

Finals:

Sitting GOP: 23
GOP Holds: 18
GOP Losses: 0
GOP Pickups: 10

Projected U.S. Senate makeup: 51 Republicans, 49 Democrats

Now that we’ve established that the GOP will retain all 41 seats we currently hold, it’s time to wrap our giant bear paws around the juicy prey: Democrat seats that will turn on Election Day.

Thanks to the Obama Doctrine of alienating the American public and calling them stupid at every turn (and the whole ‘ramming stuff down our throats’ thing) there are many more Senate seats in play than should be this year. In general, midterms are a referendum on the sitting administration, but everything has taken on a special flavor this year as Obama has not been like any other president in history. He’s been more radical, more far reaching and more arrogant, and it’s going to cost his party dearly. GOP and independent voters will be out in force to take away his absolute power in D.C. and many disillusioned Democrats will sit at home to protest the fact that Obama hasn’t paid their gas or their mortgage and that we’re not all riding flying unicorns that use rainbows for fuel when they head to the welfare office to get food stamps.

Anyway.

The following are in order of likelihood to flip…

North Dakota
No contest…retiring Byron Dorgan did us a ridiculous favor, and this one was over before it started for John Hoeven over Tracy Potter. Solid pickup.

Hoeven 69%, Potter 29%

Arkansas
Buh-bye, Blanche Lincoln. You knew her days were numbered awhile ago, and after withstanding a bitter primary fight, she’s going to go down with far less resistance in the general election as John Boozman thoroughly embarrasses her and instantly becomes the U.S. Senator with the coolest name. Solid pickup.

Boozman 61%, Lincoln 33%

Indiana
Another retiring Dem who did us a favor by getting out of the way. Evan Bayh’s mysterious abandonment of a sure Dem hold gives us a sure GOP pickup as Dan Coats has de-fossilized himself and come out of cryogenic freezing to regain his old Senate seat. It should be an easy race, despite the fact he spent his first three hours of newly found consciousness asking where the milkman was and if the Washington Senators ever won the World Series. I kid, I kid…Coats isn’t that old. It’s just that many technologies have been invented since he last walked the earth. Such as fire. Solid pickup.

Coats 59%, Ellsworth 39%

Wisconsin
Thought to be completely out of reach even a few months ago, the rising tide of conservatism has claimed another Democrat incumbent, as sneaky Russ Feingold is very likely to receive a beating at the hand of businessman Ron Johnson. Likely pickup.

Johnson 55%, Feingold, 43%

Pennsylvania
I don’t buy the media calling this a toss-up. Toomey has been leading and will continue to lead right through Election Day, capping off a great GOP run for Arlen Specter’s old seat. After the 287 year old Specter was faced with the…err…specter…of losing the GOP primary, he quickly cut a deal to switch parties and then promptly lost the Democratic primary. His opponent, lunatic whiner Joe Sestak (you know, the guy the White House illegally offered a job to so he would drop out of the race and let Specter win), is now going to lose the seat completely to conservative Toomey. Likely pickup.

Toomey 51%, Sestak 45%

Colorado
Ken Buck is another of the conservative candidates for Senate I have a lot of faith in…this race has been tougher than it looked on the outset, mostly due to Colorado’s fierce purple streak, but I think this one will pull red when it matters (the recent presidential flux of this state should have little effect on a midterm). Leans pickup.

Buck 50%, Bennet 48%

Illinois
A battle of horrible vs even more horrible. I hate this race. I’ve met both Mark Kirk and Alexi Giannoulias, and neither impresses me. Alexi shrugged me off when I said no, he could not count on my vote because he gave loans to mobsters, and Kirk could barely form a coherent sentence to defend his stupid vote for Cap and Tax. Unfortunately one of these men must win. I feel the least damage will be caused by Kirk, mostly because he’ll likely prove to be a dynastically useless Senator whose only purpose in life is to fill in another “R” on our side of the fence. If there was a “none of the above” option, it would win in a landslide. I really do not like Illinois politics. Leans pickup.

Kirk 48%, Giannoulias 47%

West Virginia
Polling has hopped back and forth on this one, and quite frankly I don’t think the GOP focused on it until too late. This seat was thought to be a sure Dem hold considering it was occupied by the now deceased former KKK member Robert Byrd, but businessman John Raese has made a good race of it. It’s a tough row to hoe in this state for GOP as of late, but a huge surge of dislike for Obama make this, I think, the final good chance for a pickup on this list. Leans pickup.

Raese 49%, Manchin 47%

Nevada
Oh, Sharron Angle. Like Rand Paul, this is another tea party run gone amok. Danny Tarkantanian would have been a far better candidate, but the radical insurgents on the right pushed Angle ahead and for awhile it looked like we were completely hosed on this race. Never one to disappoint, though, Harry Reid has gone out and made a fool of himself in public on numerous occasions, including his awesome “I saved the world” speech, and this race is in spitting distance now. I think Angle could win, but it will be ridiculously close….which means the SEIU will probably steal it. Toss up.

Angle 48%, Reid 47.5%

Washington
How this one is even a race is beyond me…not that I don’t like Dino Rossi, but the fact that Patty Murray could potentially lose a race she was leading by 20 points is hilarious to me. It’s going to be a long night counting ballots in Washington, and honestly, I’m going to say turnout pulls this out for Rossi. Toss up.

Rossi 49%, Murray 47%

California
Even political novices know that California is a bastion of liberalism. Those electoral votes are the basis of any Democratic campaign, and even the Republicans in the golden state would be hardcore libs in the heartland of America. Thus, the Senate races here aren’t even on the radar most years. Thankfully for us, this is not most years. Incompetent SENATOR Boxer (she worked SO hard for that title, you know), has had to inexplicably defend herself against Carly “Demon Sheep” Fiorina, and quite frankly the whole race has bordered on the absurd since it never should have existed. I’ve enjoyed seeing the Democrats squirm and waste money on what should have been a sure hold, but I don’t think the GOP can pull this one out. Likely hold.

Boxer 51%, Fiorina 46%

Connecticut
The best thing Chris Dodd, he of the banking crisis and partner to Banking Queen Bawney Fwank in the housing bubble, ever did for the Democrats was quit this race. Blumenthal is a shoe in to hold off self-funder and WWE founder Linda McMahon. Safe hold.

Blumenthal 52%, McMahon 47%

Delaware
“I’m not a witch!” Really nothing else to say about this abysmal race. Fiorina’s Demon Sheep ad had the cake for “worst GOP campaign ad of the year” until O’Donnell’s came out featuring the above quote as the opening vignette of the piece. A sure pickup with Mike Castle was destroyed by shortsighted tea party banner wavers. If this race costs us the Senate, I will be thoroughly disappointed. I predict 51 seats, but that’s counting a lot of big IFS in the toss ups. Honestly, if O’Donnell won this race, it would be the biggest upset in American politics since Aaron Burr was dueling folks on the south lawn. Safe hold.

Unlike the House, the Senate is still very much in play for both sides; all that’s left to be decided in the former is the margin of GOP victory (I’m sitting on 63 seats, personally).

The Senate was thought to be out of reach for the GOP, since we need 10 seats to take a majority, but even that could be attained given the wave of anti-Obama sentiment sweeping the country. The Senate has been a serious sticking point for the Obama administration and something he would, quite frankly, simply abolish if given the power. Obama has blamed the filibuster and the Senate GOP minority for pretty much everything from bills not getting passed to his morning coffee being cold. To put things in perspective, though, he had an unbeatable super majority for all of 2009 (until Scott Brown’s win earlier this year gave us 41 seats) and he still couldn’t get anything done (not to mention the fact that Obama loved the filibuster as a Senator).

The contentious nature of the Senate and the number of rules that govern how the body acts makes each seat absolutely critical. Here are my predictions for how we’ll fare November 2.

First, Solid GOP holds where there really isn’t a race:

• Alabama - Shelby by 32
• Arizona – McCain by 18
• Georgia – Isakson by 29
• Idaho – Crapo by 37
• Iowa – Grassley by 17
• Kansas – Moran by 34
• Louisiana – Vitter by 21
• North Carolina – Burr by 15
• Oklahoma – Coburn by 39
• South Carolina – DeMint by 41

(how this isn’t 100-0 when the Democrat is one Alvin Greene I have no idea)

• South Dakota – John Thune by 40
• Utah – Mike Lee by 29

With 23 GOP seats not up for re-election, that gives us 35 total seats held for sure. Now, we get a little stickier…we have a number of states we need to hold that the races are a little murkier.

Leans GOP (likely hold):

Alaska
Thanks to Lisa Murkowski and her stupid selfishness of running a write-in campaign, this nasty race isn’t a runaway for us. Murkowski couldn’t care less for the residents of Alaska or even the country itself. All she wants is to remain in power. I believe, though, that the polls are wildly overstating her support. Write-in candidates sound quaint in theory and folks will mention them on the phone, but realistically I don’t think she has a shot of winning. She’s going to damage Joe Miller, but hopefully not enough to cost him the race.

Final prediction: Miller 40%, McAdams 29%, Murkowski 22%

Florida
I probably could have put this under solid hold, but I wanted to write a bit about it. This is the second ugly primary implosion of the year, as moderate Obama-lover Charlie Crist quit the GOP primary and ran as an independent after it became clear Marco Rubio was going to flat-out embarrass him (paging Lisa Murkowski, you have a kindred spirit). This race was close for a few weeks, which is why I include it here, but recent polling shows Rubio pulling a big lead. Should be held without a problem.

Final prediction: Rubio 52%, Crist 26%, Meek 18%

Kentucky
Good old Kentucky…this was the first primary race of the year I had a bit of a meltdown about on Twitter, since the tea party flexed its sizable muscles and pushed through libertarian Rand Paul over the establishment pick Trey Grayson. This race is closer than it should be, thanks in large part to Paul being, well, CRAZY. Did people realize who his father was? Yes, that Ron Paul. He’s made missteps and had a lot of his old quotes brought up and made what should have been a ridiculously easy hold into a competitive race at points. It’s highly unfortunate, but not the worst race in this list by far.

Final prediction: Paul 54%, Conway 43%

Missouri
Congressmen Roy Blunt is running against one of the most annoying Democrat candidates of the year, Robin Carnahan. Seriously, listen to the latter talk. It’s horrible. Unfortunately, this race isn’t about speech patterns and more about policy, and in a solid purple state it’s a close race to hold retiring GOP Senator Kit Bond’s seat. I want it noted, though, that Blunt is another huge improvement over a retiring RINO. Likely hold.

Final prediction: Blunt 51%, Carnahan 48%

New Hampshire
This has been a weird race because no candidate has pulled very far ahead, but the race also hasn’t had a lot of publicity or even been mentioned in many charts of analysis. It just appears as likely GOP and no one gives it much color. Republican Kelly Ayotte has held a lead over Democrat Paul Hodes for several months, but this state is odd enough that if I were forced to choose one GOP seat that had even the slimmest chance of changing on election day, this would be it.

Final prediction: Ayotte 50%, Hodes 47%

Ohio
Ohio is a great race, because it will be filling the seat of retiring faux-Republican George Voinovich. Between him and the Bobbsy Twins in Maine, the Democrats found much sympathy for their cause on our side of the aisle. This race features Rob Portman, a former Congressmen with a rather large lead over Democrat Lee Fisher. This is another race that probably could be solid hold, but the polling was closer earlier this year, and Ohio is a funny state. But, I still predict a hold.

Final prediction: Portman 56%, Fisher 33%

Overall holds: 18 of 18.

Honestly, this is huge for the GOP. There are a couple of seats in Democrat states that could have been in danger, but a combination of good candidates, anti-Obama momentum and hard campaigning has led to what looks like a sweep of all currently held GOP seats. As it’s been for the last 9 months, we’re completely on the offensive.

Just with GOP holds, we should end the night with 41 seats, which means 10 Democrat seats need to be flipped to take the majority. Uphill battle? Sure. Impossible? No.

The healthcare bill passed by Congress and signed by Obama has continued to be a source of surprises for most people, as sections dealing with everything from death panels to civilian military forces have been found. In a stunning development, another previously undiscovered section, entitled “Section 6660: Ban on Consumption of Food and Food-like substances,” was located just this morning.

This addition to the bill essentially makes it illegal to consume any sort of food, a ground-breaking provision that experts say was likely inserted into the bill at the 11th hour by Democratic insiders.

Like most provisions in the bill, this one also does not take full effect for many years. The first section will start immediately, which includes a tax on all foods. A 10% tax starts this year, moves to 25% next year and finally 75% by 2014. The actual banning on food will take effect in 2015.

The bill requires all residents in the country to abide by it, but does include an exemption for White House residents, staff and their families.

At a press conference early Thursday, press secretary Robert Gibbs attempted to explain the provision, but after making four analogies related to bears and repeatedly giggling at a drawing of a rabbit he had taped to his podium, Obama himself came out to explain to bill.

“Let me be clear: Americans wanted change,” he said, “What bigger change can we have than this? With the banning of food, most of our obesity and healthcare concerns will likely vanish, easing the burden on middle-class families whose healthcare costs have skyrocketed due to the evil and greedy insurance companies.”

“Just last week,” Obama continued, “I met a man named Jules, living in L.A, who said, ‘Barack, I wish it was illegal for me to eat all these tasty burgers. I wish someone would stop me.’ Well, America, I am here and I am stopping you. This banning of food will signal an end to the age of American food arrogance.”

When questioned on the exemption that allowed the White House to continue eating food, Obama dismissed the claims of tyranny. “Let me be clear,” he said. “We have brought fundamental change to America. But no one can expect me to do it on an empty stomach.”

Obama also cited Michelle Obama as a reason for the White House exemption, as he said he was “deathly afraid” of what she would do to him if she wasn’t allowed to have her arugula.

“Besides,” Obama added, “One of my main adversaries, the so-called ‘tea parties,’ utilize food in their name. If we ban tea, that should be the end of them, right?”

While most reporters continued to nod in agreement, one correspondent from Fox News did ask how this provision could possibly benefit America, since without food or water “we’d all die.”

Obama glowered at the reporter for several moments, before angrily swirling his cape behind him and proclaiming that people should stop listening to “Republican fear tactics.”

At least 40,000 lawsuits have already been filed by everyone from ordinary citizens to food manufacturing companies, and experts predict nearly any suit or Constitutional challenge to the bill will likely succeed given the gross destruction of freedom it promotes.

Obama was undaunted by such threats, however, repeatedly mumbling “I…AM…America” while carefully examining the jeweled scepter he began carrying with him earlier this week.

At least one Democrat, however, seems to not be on board with this bill. Sources reported that independent film maker and left-wing venom-spitter Michael Moore, upon hearing of the provision, renounced his membership in the Democratic Party and changed his voter registration to “non-partisan.”

Unconfirmed reports place Moore in Mexico City, where he was seen hording double cheeseburgers in a downtown apartment.

Never fear, loyal readers. I will be back posting regularly on this blog soon. Unfortunately my website domain, despite the fact you can easily see it online, is actually stuck in a weird sort of purgatory between hosting companies.

Think of it as Keanu Reeves from the epochally bad third Matrix movie when he was stuck in that bizarre ‘train station’ place, only my website probably displays more emotion than he did.

The Illinois primary is TODAY! If you live in the Land of Lincoln, please get out and vote! There are a number of EXTREMELY important Republican races that require your attention, including:

Illinois Governor
A wide open GOP field is unfortunately filled with landmines. Former IL GOP party chair Andy McKenna ran us into the ground statewide and is a useless candidate, Kirk Dillard appeared in a pro-Obama campaign commercial and sees no problem with tax hikes, Jim Ryan is a member of the currently corrupt IL government and Bill Brady is just a moderate.

What’s left are Human Events contributor and former Jack Ryan campaign manager Dan Proft and businessman Adam Andrzejewski. Both are solid candidates for the general election in my book. I’m endorsing Proft but would support Andrzejewski just the same in the general election.

Locally, I also have to plug my district:

Illinois 14th. Congressional District
In order to challenge Democrat Bill Foster in November, we need a solid candidate. That makes the primary race a simple choice: Randy Hultgren, a State Senator with an excellent record in Springfield, is a far superior choice to Ethan Hastert, son of former 14th. mainstay Denny Hastert. Hastert is a pureblood member of the entitlement brigade. He has little experience, and is running simply on the “Hastert seat” mantra, that he’s entitled to it because of his father’s long (but albeit tainted) tenure in the district. Now, should Hastert win, I’ll support him in the general, because his views are very similar to Hultgren’s. I just think he lacks the experience and skills necessary to mount a successful challenge to Foster.

I endorse Randy Hultgren for the 14th Congressional District.

Other local Illinois endorsements:
Chris Lauzen, 25th. Illinois Senatorial
Kay Hatcher, 50th. Illinois Representative District
Jim Dodge, Illinois Comptroller
David Rickert, Kane County Treasurer
L. Robert Russell, Kane County Sheriff
Mary Schostok, Judge of the Appellate Court (2nd Judicial)

VOTE!!!!

Barack Obama’s 2010 State of the Union promises to be more of the same: high soaring rhetoric, heavy teleprompter reliance and Nancy Pelosi most likely clapping like a seal. In order to squeeze at least some entertainment out of this campaign-speech-on-steroids, I’ve developed a nice little list of things Barack is likely to say tonight.

Below are my current odds for these catchphrases/statements. Variations count if they are very close, and I’m also giving 5000/1 odds that the teleprompter breaks and he goes off script talking about breathalysers.

In that vein, if you want to turn this into a drinking game, it’s very easy: longer odds, stiffer drink.

I’ll also be live tweeting commentary from http://www.twitter.com/ianessling. It’ll be epic.

2/1 “Pre existing conditions”
2/1 “Spending freeze”
2/1 “Inherited”
3/1 “Last eight years”
3/1 “Let me be clear”
4/1 “People are angry”
5/1 “I’m fighting for you”
5/1 “Excessive profits”
5/1 “It’s not about me” or “This isn’t about me.”
7/1 “Wall Street Bankers”
10/1 “George W. Bush” or “last administration”
10/1 “I’m fired up.”
10/1 “And that is why…”
10/1 “I have asked”
10/1 “Mess we inherited”
12/1 “Spending freeze” more than 10 times
15/1 “Fatcat”
20/1 “Get this economy moving again.”
20/1 “Ted Kennedy” or any variation
25/1 “Rising deficit”
25/1 “I” more than 100 times
30/1 “War in Iraq”
35/1 “Eric Holder”
35/1 “Stimulus package”
50/1 “Closing Guantanamo Bay”
50/1 “2010 election” or “midterm election”
50/1 “George W. Bush” or “last administration” more than 10 times
50/1 “I don’t want to hear”
50/1 “We’re going to pass healthcare reform”
50/1 “Yes we can.”
60/1 “Janet Napolitano”
75/1 “Campaign”
100/1 “Underwear bomber”
150/1 “Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid” (in the same sentence, any order)
175/1 “Czar”
200/1 “Budget reconciliation”
250/1 “Joe Wilson”
350/1 “Hope” and “Change” in the same sentence
500/1 “My record-breaking deficit”
500/1 “I won”
500/1 “It’s bleeping golden!”
500/1 “I have a dream.”
1000/1 “I hereby resign the presidency”

I’m currently working on moving my site to a new server, so there may be some downtime over the next couple weeks. Rest assured, the Feds haven’t locked me up for being a political dissident (yet) and I’ll be back online soon.

Just days before a Nigerian man tried to blow up a U.S. airliner as it descended into Detroit, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its “2009 Accomplishments & Reforms” fact sheet, touting its “Secure Flight” passenger vetting program.

The Obama administration has confirmed that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on the U.S. government terrorist watch list, but the 23-year-old man was still able to board a Northwest plane in Amsterdam bound for Michigan.

On the DHS fact sheet, issued on Dec. 15, the “Secure Flight” program is second on the list and is described as a program that “prescreens name, date of birth and gender against government watch lists for domestic and international flights.”

As if we didn’t already know that the Department of Homeland Security was the most incompetent Federal agency in existence (especially with ‘we’re not calling it terrorism anymore‘ at the helm), now they are bragging about secure flight programs just prior to allowing a Nigerian terrorist to board a flight bound for America. The DHS has been a piece of garbage since Bush created it and it’s continuing to get worse. This is the same DHS that thinks it’s more important to pursue ‘dangerous right-wing extremism from folks who have anti-abortion stickers on their cars’ than it is to fight terrorism and close the border.

Janet Napolitano is completely inept and incompetent, and like most of the Obama administration, beyond naive when it comes to national security. It was an extremely lucky break that the detonator this guy was carrying didn’t go off. She can’t even figure out if the “system worked” or “didn’t work,” changing her mind within 24 hours of each statement. (It didn’t work, in case you are wondering what the correct answer is).

With the Department of Insecurity still failing in its feeble attempts to protect the country from EXTERNAL threats, we may not be so lucky next time.