Remember how, less than two weeks ago, Monica Crowley accused President Obama of “attacking,” “in every possible way, every major right” in the Bill of Rights? Apparently, it was a classic case of projection because about a week later (5/27/13), Crowley suggested to Donald Rumsfeld that the Constitution may need to be curtailed in order to fight the War on Terror.
Crowley was one of the members of the Hannity show “studio audience” for the Donald Rumsfeld Rehab-athon special last week. When it was her turn, she asked:
Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for your service to this great nation. I have a big question for you. Thinking throughout American history, all of our enemies have been external, all the way through the communist Soviet bloc. The current enemy is Islamic fundamentalism and terror and while it is external in the form of Iran and Taliban and other groups and regimes, it’s also internal.
The threat is here in the form of the Boston bombers, the Times Square bomber, the Muslim Brotherhood and the stealth jihad and I worry that our Constitution is not built to deal with this kind of internal threat and an enemy that is religiously driven, that uses our rights and our openness and our tolerance against us. So my question to you is, are we fighting this war the right way? Have we struck the right balance between liberty and security and how do we deal with the enemy becoming American citizens, as the Boston bomber certainly was and the Times Square bomber? How do we fight this war in an appropriate way so that we prevail when it’s right here at home?
Gee, Mon, look who’s attacking the Bill of Rights now?
Rumsfeld did not smack her down but he didn’t exactly run with her suggestion either. He said, “I think we’re going to have to find our way towards the right balance and mix there.” He added that Congress and the Executive Branch “will have to adjust to the fact that we are in the 21st Century. We are in the information age. Technology has advanced to a point where things change and we need to understand that and accept that. …We’re the most vulnerable people in the world because we’re the freest people in the world. We want to say what we want, and go where we want and do what we want and in the kind of threat that you properly described, we have to understand that we’re gonna have to figure out the way we can live with that."
Monica Crowley: too cowardly to live with the Constitution.
Great idea, Monica; keep going with that.
The Teabagger wing of the GOP, who constantly trumpet their undying love for the ORIGINAL Constitution, will be OVERJOYED that you’re in favor of “curtailing” it.
In fact, you and Dapper Don should discuss specifically how to “compromise” the Second Amendment in order to effectively fight the War on Terror — that should go over REAL WELL.
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Nice to see Monica channeling her inner General Buck Turgidson.
