bac, bac, bac BACAW!

Oooo run and hide...the terrorists are coming...

My god, what a week the Republicans are having - this, plus Beck's "raping the economy" comment, O'Reilly predicting Pelosi will be murdered by an angry mob ("its gonna get nasty. Nancy Pelosi's going to be bobbing up and down in the Boston Harbor").

And it is only Tuesday.

I think it is their Spinal Tap moment - they've turned it up to 11 and now have nowhere else to go.

I keep thinking the GOP got the inverse message of the last two election cycles. Rather than spend any time on introspection or changing approach, the idea is to go back to what worked before (fear mongering and class/racial division) and crank it up a notch. But there just comes a point where it wears off. Think about it - if the GOP is this freaked out (much less the nutty TEA folks) already, what do they do to keep it up for the next year, much less the next three? How long can they just keep braying "NO" and "BE AFRAID" before even their die hard core tunes them out?

This is political correctness run amok

I don't get it. What is "politically correct" about putting criminals on trial and giving them due process? When they put the train bombers on trial in Spain there were no problems. Likewise, nobody got kidnapped or killed when they put terrorists on trial in England. There were trials, the bad guys were convicted and put in jail, and life went on.

Wait...it's all making sense to me now. As with providing health care for all its citizens, trials for terrorists is just something that those Europeans do better than us, because they're...

Socialists.

another idiot who thinks "24" is a reality show.

[also, shadegg was the guy who "kidnapped" a baby and used it as a prop on the floor of the house during the hcr debate.]

Why are Republicans so hellbent on letting terrorists boss them around?

I have never in my life seen so much bed-wetting from the GOP. We need a Dem to take the mike and simply ask the GOP House in mass, "Are ALL you guys this chickenshit?"

Call 'em on this.

The Republicans are terrified to the point of hysteria by the thought that KSM, et.al., might actually get CONVICTED, and worse, SENTENCED. Then the only action we have taken to serve justice on anyone actually involved in 9/11 will happen under the aegis of the Obama administration and ... horror of horrors ... Obama will get credit for it. When they talk of a potential terrorist attack during the trial, they aren't expressing a fear, they're expressing a hope.

If only close minds come with closed mouths!

Keep your children away from Rep. John Shadegg and his disturbing child-kidnapping fantasies.

I get it- when W and the GOP are leading the fight against AQ, then it's "bring it on". When it's Obama it's ooooh the scary terrorists might come and attack us!

So the idea of universal health care is fascist, but denying an accused criminal a fair trial isn't? Repubs have stopped making any sort of sense a long time ago.

Simpler Repugs: Put all the brownies in jail, and throw away the keys without a trial. It's the American way!

Anyone else reminded of the Simpsons debate between Mayor Quimby & Sideshow Bob (the "Rush Limbaugh" question)?

"...we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill is laughing in his grave at these cowards who will not stand up and use the Constitution they would supposedly die to defend. These guys are watering the Tree of Liberty by peeing their pants in fear. Which is not, I think, what the founders intended.

Wait, you mean if we do these trials New York will become a target for terrorists?

Rep. John Shadegg, you sir are an asshole.

In New York City, there's a term for this kind of person: schmuck!

Also: the only way Bloomberg's adult daughters are going to be kidnapped from school is if they're visiting in the course of their philanthropic work.

The NY courts and law enforcement have managed to protect court workers, jurors, and their families from mobsters and gangsters with much greater ties and connections to the local community for decades. Apparently not so in chickenhawk red state America.

They are Un-American! The GOP is now working to belittle our nation’s values.
They spread fear as a substitute for reason and attack those who do not share their Un-American police state mentality.

GOP gettin' all wee-wee'd up.

...slow clap... I salute your faith in the American Justice system. Perhaps we can create another mass public hysteria warning system. Instead of colors how's a nice avatar system ranging from Romney, Giluani, Bolton, Cheney and all the way to Palin-ggedon. This should help the group think and herd the sheeple.

I mean seriously.

If its that easy for Al Qaeda to kidnap they Mayor's daughter, maybe we need to rethink our domestic security policies.

If this is possible, why haven't they kidnapped anyone in the US yet?

Is Shadegg aware of an Al Qaeda related kidnapping in the United States that we were never told about?

I'm willing to bet all these answers and no and hes just a fucking douchebag

More evidence, Mr. Shadegg.
After 9/11, George W. Bush (business parter of the Bin Laden family) gathered up the members of that family and flew them out of the country to safety.
Bush then 'went after' Bin Laden with only 5,000 US troops, surrounded Tora Bora with a force of Bin Laden's co-religionists, sympathizers and admirers, and let him make an easy getaway without so much as a 'dagnabbit!'
In seven years the Bush administration made no effort to capture Bin Laden,even announcing publicly that they weren't interested in him. Instead they attacked his political and religious opponents.
And now that Democrats are trying Al-Qaeda members, you,Mr. Shadegg, are expressing alarm that Al-Qeda will attack us and kidnap our daughters.

The conclusion is inescapable: the Republican strategy towards Al-Qaeda has been one of SURRENDER and APPEASEMENT, treating the organization and its leader with kid gloves and kowtowing to his family. An now that measures are being taken, you're SCARED that the cowardly deal the Republicans engineered is unravelling.

Thanks for showing that you've been selling out America's honor for 8 years.

I guess we should be glad that Shaddegg and his fellow GOPers weren't in charge in 1941. We'd all be saluting huge portraits of Adolf Hitler III and Hirohito IV today in our schools and government buildings as a result of the GOP's immediate surrender following Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese would have been given control of the west coast in exchange for juicy commercial contracts given to GOP-connected pols, and the Nazis would have had free reign from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains following the GOP's bed-wetting capitulation to Albert Speer. I think Giuliani would look positively smashing in a German military uniform myself.

My other favorite GOP talking point: KSM is going to be able to recruit other prisoners in federal prison. Nevermind that he'll end up in solitary and will never have any contact with other inmates. Have those doofuses ever visited a maximum security federal pen? I have (for work reasons, duh!) and it is one locked down place. I actually hyperventilated from claustrophobia just from being in a conference room behind multiple sets of steel doors. And they think prisoners escape from these places? Idiots.

I wonder if AlQaeda has a suggestion box for weak sisters like this quivering mass of congressperson???
A few more top notch target suggestions and Shadegg might snagg two free weeks use of a beachside OBL safe house...

Shadegg is as much a coward as the rest of them. He was probably wetting his pants as he spoke! For pete's sake, why don't the Dems call these people out on their cowardly fear. According to them, America is too weak to hold court on its own soil? That is cowardess, plain and simple. Yellow streak running thru the whole congress. Any 'mench' around or are we going lillies and pansies as the new Republican symbol. Of course, when you think about it - how'd you like to be in an infantry platoon with Limbaugh walking point, and Beck (crying) holding the rear. Guards could be set by Shadegg and Boehner.