Damned Liberal

It's understandable the Republicans are doing everything they can to oppose Obama:

• They got their asses kicked at the ballot box
• They have nothing to offer, so they have to tear down
• They, too, believe in Number One only

What is not understandable or excusable is their willingness to lie to, and deceive, the public about a very serious matter: Public safety.

A certain know-nothing from Alaska who, for some reason, gets widespread press coverage was quoted today as criticizing Obama over the handling of the Detroit underwear bomber.

Other Republicans have been making the same sort of noise.
In doing so, they are either ignorant or lying (IOW: politicians).

Some in the media (generally not Corporate Media) are calling the Republicants out about their lies:

Terrorism Derangement Sydrome (Dahlia Lithwick at Slate):

Policies and practices that were perfectly acceptable just after 9/11, or when deployed by the Bush administration, are now decried as dangerous and reckless. The same prominent Republicans who once celebrated open civilian trials for Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe bomber," now claim that open civilian trials endanger Americans (some Republicans have now even gone so far as to try to defund such trials). Republicans who once supported closing Guantanamo are now fighting to keep it open. And one GOP senator, who like all members of Congress must take an oath to uphold the Constitution, has voiced his concern that the Christmas bomber really needed to be "properly interrogated" instead of being allowed to ask for a lawyer.

Underwear Bomber Got Worst Treatment Law Allows (Ann Wolner, The Economist):

And for anyone who considers it weak-kneed to prosecute Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a common criminal rather than declare him an enemy combatant and haul him to a military tribunal, here are two more words: Bush, Cheney.

The previous administration always prosecuted suspected terrorists captured on U.S. soil in federal district court. Some 300 people have been tried there on terrorism-related charges, convicted and sentenced to spend a chunk of their lives in U.S. prisons.

Bombing Suspect Criticism Comes ‘After the Fact,’ Brennan Says (Alan Bjerga, The Economist):

John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, said he told Republican congressional leaders on Christmas night about the interrogation of terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and called subsequent criticism “a bit of an outcry after the fact.”

Brennan said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican Leader John Boehner were among senior members of Congress he briefed after Abdulmutallab was arrested on suspicion of trying to detonate explosives as Northwest Airlines Flight 253 approached Detroit carrying 279 passengers and 11 crew members.

“None of those individuals raised any concerns with me at that point,” Brennan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program.