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According to today's Washington Post, a recent fund-raising letter by one Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) reads in part, "They just don't get it...these are the same weak-kneed liberals who recently tried to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists right here to Michigan!" If it matters, the article citing it was a general review of GOP strategies painting Obama as soft on/incompetent to deal with terrorism in the wake of the Detroit incident.
But WTF does that even mean? I don't doubt that it will strike a deep, visceral fear into extremely retarded readers who read "Guantanamo Bay terrorists," "here," and "Michigan" and promptly wet themselves. I'm all but certain that was the primary intent of the sentence. But is it meant to imply something intelligent or even coherent as well?
Polypublicans, this is your moment. Is there something obviously, eye-rollingly wrong about transferring detainees from a jail outside the country to one in, say, Michigan? My best guess is that the only intended meaning was that, on breaking out of jail and finding themselves in the heart of the Great Satan, these shell-shocked, orange-jumpsuit-clad, penniless foreigners would decide to wage an impromptu Jihad on whatever landmarks exist in Michigan that happen to be worth attacking (I can't think of any). But that, of course, would be a sublimely idiotic thing to say. So I'll give this Hoekstra character the benefit of the doubt. What's up?
But WTF does that even mean? I don't doubt that it will strike a deep, visceral fear into extremely retarded readers who read "Guantanamo Bay terrorists," "here," and "Michigan" and promptly wet themselves. I'm all but certain that was the primary intent of the sentence. But is it meant to imply something intelligent or even coherent as well?
Polypublicans, this is your moment. Is there something obviously, eye-rollingly wrong about transferring detainees from a jail outside the country to one in, say, Michigan? My best guess is that the only intended meaning was that, on breaking out of jail and finding themselves in the heart of the Great Satan, these shell-shocked, orange-jumpsuit-clad, penniless foreigners would decide to wage an impromptu Jihad on whatever landmarks exist in Michigan that happen to be worth attacking (I can't think of any). But that, of course, would be a sublimely idiotic thing to say. So I'll give this Hoekstra character the benefit of the doubt. What's up?
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