Last week a man on our terrorist watch list walked onto a plane and attempted to blow it up. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said after the incident, “The system worked.” Only after the obvious absurdity of the statement was pointed out to her did she retract it.

The left doesn’t get it. They say, “We are not threatened by terrorism, only oversea contingency operations!”

“Security?” the left says, “Who needs it and what is it anyway?” They say, “We can’t profile, so search a grandmother in a wheelchair.”

The White House is clueless. They fire their “party gatekeeper” and two uninvited individuals waltz into the White House, shaking hands with world leaders and posing for pictures with the president and the vice president. Afterward, the White House called for “a full investigation.”

Wow! A man of action, except what we get, in Orwellian “1984” fashion, isn’t investigation and full disclosure but silence to cover the obvious ineptitude of White House staff and security.

Now Janet Napolitano is calling for “a full investigation” of the airline incident. Again, in Orwellian fashion, after 48 hours or so we will all go back to sleep and happily allow the inept to reign.

David Barnes

Spokane Valley