Conservative Blogger: It Was Only a Matter of Time...

Yesterday afternoon, New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and one other person were killed when Lidle's private plane crashed into a high-rise of luxury apartments.

During the initial coverage, I was chatting with a liberal friend of mine and we both theorized--somewhat in jest--that this would probably be blamed on George W. Bush. It was only a matter of time before we were both proven right.

I checked my RSS reader before I went to bed and, wouldn't you know, there was a posting by Jayne Lyn Stahl out at the Huffington Post that made that very claim. In a piece titled "Now That We Figured Out How to Go in Reverse...", Ms. Stahl invokes memories and images of the last time planes hit skyscrapers in New York City:

After being startled today, like everybody else, by eerily-familiar live footage of yet another airplane crashing into a Manhattan skyscraper, I couldn't help but think of some comments made, a week ago, by President Bush on the campaign trail in California when he argued that Democrats are weak on national security. "If you listen closely to some of the leaders of the Democratic Party," the president said, "it sounds like--it sounds like-- they think the best way to protect the American people is, wait until we're attacked again." (AP) Amen, Mr. President, but will somebody explain how is it that the party that brought us "national security" and intelligence czars wasn't able to prevent an airplane from crashing, once again, into a building in Manhattan? Where have our tax dollars gone since 9/11? Wasn't the rationale behind the "war on terror," the USA Patriot Act, and the NSA domestic surveillance program about preventing this sort of thing?

She goes on to skewer John McCain, trumpet Bill Clinton's record in dealing with North Korea and take a couple of shots at FOX News and Halliburton, too.

Typical.

There is no way that any part of the USA Patriot Act or the changes recommended by the 9/11 Commission would have prevented Cory Lidle's plane from hitting a Manhattan high-rise.

Tell me, Ms. Stahl, how many four-seat aircraft have been hijacked and used as deadly weapons in the past? Exactly...it's probably close to the area of "none" and "not a one." I'm no aviation expert by any means. I'll admit that. I'm told that Lidle's plane was traveling under VFR, not in contact with controllers in a corridor normally used by helicopters where small, fixed-wing aircraft are allowed access. Which part of that would alert our government and military to a threat, Ms. Stahl?

I'd love for you to educate me, Jayne, on how this kind of thing could be prevented when there was no indication that Lidle's plane was in trouble, off course, or otherwise a threat to the general population. How exactly would you liked to have seen this prevented? You want to know why the Government couldn't stop it? Fine. Here's a challenge: pretend you're the entire United States Government. How would you have prevented this accident?

Stop whining about it and offer a constructive solution if you think something should have been done. Prove us wrong. Tell us how you could have saved the lives of Cory Lidle and the other unnamed victim in mere seconds.

Folks, when you hear the term "Bush Derangement Syndrome," this is what is what people are talking about. It's a hatred of George W. Bush that is so vitriolic that Liberals take any event and try to pin it on the president. The fact that someone can actually take the events of yesterday and try to blame Bush--especially under the flag of 9/11--is sad, pathetic and disgusting all at the same time.

"Bush Derangement Syndrome" apparently goes hand-in-hand with "Clinton Can Do No Wrong-itis."

Moreover, does Mr. McCain need to be reminded that it was on President Clinton's watch, back in 1994, that U.S. negotiators convinced North Korea to suspend its nuclear program, and allow U.N. inspections. Clearly, the Bush administration has been too busy flexing its preemptive muscle as if in a furtive effort to ward off erectile dysfunction, under the thinly guised pretext of spreading democracy, and thus unavailable to such trifling, and insignificant, measures as diplomatic talks to stop nuclear proliferation. What's more, thanks to the efforts of the administration Senator McCain so staunchly defends, we have more nuclear players now we did when Mr. Clinton was commander-in-chief, and efforts to contain proliferation have come to a decisive halt.

That would all be fine and dandy...if it actually told what happened back in 1994. Ms. Stahl, do you remember what those "talks" gave to the North Koreans? I sure do.

Quoting...well...ME...back in 2005:

Back in October of 1994, former President Jimmy Carter and Kim Jung Il established an "Agreed Framework" in which North Korea agreed to halt activities at its plutonium producing nuclear reactors. In return, they would receive relaxed economic sanctions, gradual normalization of diplomatic relations, hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel oil deliveries and construction of a light-water reactor to replace the "big bad boy" plutonium reactor that they were forced to halt construction on.

In other words, we gave them nuclear technology as long as they promised to not use it for weapons. They have nuclear reactors now because it was the negotiated policy of the United States of America to help them build the technology.

So, to get them to stop using plutonium in their reactors, we gave them the ability to enrich uranium. Brilliant! Even better is that now, in hindsight, former President Clinton even says the North Koreans lied to us and were using the technology to yield weapons.

I've been saying for some time that the Liberals have nothing but hatred to run on, and its articles like this one that help prove my point. When things like this happen, they feel it must be the fault of the Bush administration and they go off on a rant to blame him for everything from the creation of the universe right up through to this afternoon.

Sometimes, Ms. Stahl, an accident like the one that occurred yesterday is just that: an accident.

William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com

Posted by WilliamSmith on October 12, 2006 08:20 AM to Conservative Blogger