Intelligents Failyer

This link to Talking Points Memo shows the failure of the Democrats to step up to the plate and do the right thing with the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee. Nancy Pelosi, the 1st female Speaker of the House, who I am proud to call a member of my party, stumbled when she could have run away with a smart appointment to this post. I don't have a dog in this fight. I know she disliked Jane Harman, and probably for good reason. But the appointment of a yahoo who doesn't know the make-up of the biggest external enemy of our country is, well, boneheaded.

Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

"Al Qaeda, they have both," Reyes said. "You're talking about predominantly?"

"Sure," I said, not knowing what else to say.

"Predominently--probably Shiite," he ventured.

He couldn't have been more wrong.

Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an Al Qaeda clubhouse, they'd slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.

This is depressing. The whole country is going to be watching to see how the Democrats handle national security, given that news outlets such as Fox have pounded into them that Democrats are 'soft on terror.' We don't need to give them a legitimate reason to continue to do so.