Daily Polichicks - Wednesday
Here's today's Washington update: it's cold and we're not going outside.
Now here's your Daily Polichicks:
* President Obama is hot under the collar over security failures that allowed a terrorist to board a plane with a bomb on Christamas day. "These ass clowns in national security effed up, and they better get it together," the president said in a speech. Maybe that's not an exact quote, but whatever, close enough.
Okay, Fine! Be sticklers about it. Here's what he said exactly: "It now appears that, weeks ago, this information [about a terrorist plan] was passed to a component of our intelligence community but was not effectively distributed so as to get the suspect's name on a no-fly list. . . Had this critical information been shared . . . the suspect would have never been allowed to board that plane for America... A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable." [The Washington Post]
* Welcome home, big boy! Operation Bombshell teaches military wives to strip for their returning soldier husbands. Talk about military benefits... [The New York Times]
* Military sex lives aren't all that's getting hot. The custody battle between Bristol Palin and Levi Johnson heats up as an Alaska judge rules that court proceedings will remain public. Our inquiring minds say thank you, Alaska judge. Thank you. [The Washington Post]
* U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor maintains close ties to her old neighborhood and the Latino community. "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got," Sotomayor told C-SPAN. "I'm still Jenny Sonny from the block. Used to have a little, now I have a lot. No matter where I go, I know where I came from." That's not an exact quote, but you know how we roll, close enough.
Fine! Fine! Be all nit picky again. (Geez. Give us a freakin' break.) Here's what she actually said: "[When President Obama offered me the nomination, he asked me to make two promises.] The first was to remain the person I was, and the second was to stay connected to my community. I said to him that those were two easy promises to make, because those two things I could not change." [USA Today]
* If you're nobody, you can be somebody. [USA Today]
That's all. Bundle up, everybody!
xo xo
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Another baffeling component of this security debacle reported to CNN by passengers on the flight in Amsterdam is the description of a "well dressed man" who escorted the terrorist to the the check in desk and reportedly told an airline employee that the terrorist was Samoli, didn't have a passport however that shouldn't pose a problem boarding the plane. And apparently it didn't. (Anyone can tell the terrorist isn't Samoli, just look at his hair texture! Hello! All Africans don't look alike!) All joking aside, I hope a serious follow up investigation of that tip is underway. Was that "well dressed man" an accomplice? What is the policy for Samoli refugees boarding flights? This plot has just put a mega watt spotlight on the grand canyon sized wholes in what can be loosely called our "national security."