There were some notable resignations from the Obama administration over the last week or so. Each has some significance as part of the narrative how this administration manages itself.
Admiral Dennis Blair resigned as Director of National Intelligence, and Jena McNeill at the Foundry blog notes that the failures he’s blamed with are partly due to the structure of the bureaucracy and partly due to an administration that can’t bring itself to acknowledge the Islamic Jihad against America (link). Well, okay, they acknowledge Islamic Jihad, just as a legitimate part of Islam (link):
During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,” but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in “religious terms.”
He repeated the administration argument that the enemy is not “terrorism,” because terrorism is a “tactic,” and not terror, because terror is a “state of mind” — though Brennan’s title, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, includes the word “terrorism” in it. But then Brennan said that the word “jihad” should not be applied either.
“Nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children,” Brennan said.
Ok, I know what he’s saying, but the teaching of Jihad as holy war is pretty widespread throughout the Islamic world, and that is Islam’s problem, not his job to define it. How screwed are we again? Speaking of getting screwed, after the drilling accident the scandal-beleaguered (link) minerals management department’s director resigned, making sure to blame former President George W. Bush (link), who has not been in office since 1.20.09, that date that most moonbats had on their calendars for years. The President didn’t know the circumstances of her resignation, because his plate was full that morning- meeting with the NCAA Champion Duke basketball team. I guess Rahm Emmanuel was in Israel so nobody else was capable of letting him know before his press conference, which was the first in about a year.
A little over a week ago, a voting rights division attorney in the Obama DoJ resigned over being forced to stonewall the investigation into why charges were dismissed against the New Black Panthers who “guarded” a polling area in Philadelphia with batons. (link) I’ll be curious to see what comes out on this (though it will probably be after the November elections).
Finally, former perjurer-in-chief Bill Clinton evidently volunteered to be the fall guy (link) for the Joe Sestak bribery case. The thing is that stuff like this isn’t a matter of the crime committed, but very often the coverup. I tend to think we’re still early-on in this case. Of course, the administration’s internal probe of the administration found no wrongdoing by the administration., but there are inconsistencies (like Sestak’s eligibility for the intel position).
On the bright side of things, the Sestak scandal could make the PA Senate race perfect: Toomey wins, Specter’s out, Sestak’s discredited, and possible impeachable offenses. Sounds good to me.