Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Bush put tracking devices in assault weapons and let them go to Mexico so we could track down drug cartels. Obama gave assault weapons to drug cartels to up the body count to justify gun controls in the US.<\/p>\n
Bush tracked a few international calls to find terrorists. Obama tracked all of Verizon’s domestic calls to find terrorists.<\/p>\n
Obama supporters are quick to remind us Bush Did It First and when Bush did it, it was illegal but now, it’s not. But there is a qualitative and quantitative difference between the two administrations’ actions. And Bush didn’t specifically run on a platform promising never to do that again.<\/p>\n
The Democrats’ logic is: My brother stepped on an ant so I blew up a school bus full of nuns. Because he started it. And while I’m no better than he – in fact, I’m worse – he started it. So what I did was okay.<\/p>\n
“Only a little worse than Bush,” that’s the Democrats’ new defense.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is the sort of thing that makes a parent ground their kids.<\/p>\n
How do we ground a government, again?<\/p>\n
Especially one that is actively suppressing any attempt to ground it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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