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Dire Warnings, Part III: The left just can’t help itself 2000-2010

The left has been warning us for decades of dire consequences for us to come if we don’t vote for them, and instead opt for free markets. I have written about the early years of this phenomenon, and the very latest ones. The middle period is worth a look too, if for nothing else, it often describes how the left behaves once it has power. Here are a few problems:

2001– We again had a cowboy, incompetent idiot in the White House and on 9-11-01 we were attacked by radical Islamic terrorists.

In the 1990s, when we were being led by a brilliant Democrat, Bill Clinton turned down opportunities to get Osama Bin Laden as well as, along with his Deputy Attorney General Jaime Gorelick, decided it would be a great idea for the intelligence and Justice departments not to share information. We also didn’t screen Saudi pilots very well.

So George Bush was blamed for the attack. Dire warnings when they mattered in this case were ignored, except when it became convenient to blame Bush.

Read the full story from American Thinker


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