Impressive counterspin

Please go read Ace on what the Left will say about revelations in Bob Woodward's new book, and why the Left is wrong.

The flaming skull graphic Ace used to accompany his rant is probably unwarranted. As a friendly critic notes, Ace is "debasing the coin a bit," because what the president said to Woodward about our national ability to "absorb" the 9/11 attack and (hypothetically speaking) others like it is standard Democratic parlance.

On the other hand, Ace is right to seethe about how terrorism-related discourse has come to this "ain't American resilience grand?" juncture with blessings from the man in the Oval Office. Ace understands what talk show host Alan Colmes does not: that faith in the "true grit" of the American people and the blessings of American geography is not the same as the arrant nonsense that belittles even ambitious terrorist activity as a small price to pay for the righteous thrill of appearing magnanimous to the so-called "international community."

The best of the comments on the Ace rant: "Hey, on that basis we could let the Pacific Fleet get sunk again." Runner-up: "And let us not forget that we 'sucked up' not less than five different terrorist attacks under Clinton's watch, and the worst we did in response was to blow up an aspirin factory."

As for this cockamamie idea that "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is sound policy, the "bitter clingers" are appropriately scornful, in an "I can see November from my house" kind of way:

Dirty Bomb in Downtown Chicago = Just Something We Have To Deal With.
Incandescent Lightbulb = A Clear And Present Danger To The Planet

If dying is no big deal then why do we need Obama-care?

Wow, I guess Biden wasn't kidding when he said "Gird your loins."

And from this from "Chief Brody" for all the movie buffs out there -- "We can absorb the lack of a bigger boat."