The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel

I cheered when Obama nominated “Crappy Nappy” to head up the Department of Homeland Security and I did so for two reasons. Firstly, it meant she had to resign from her post as Governor of the State of Arizona and, because I knew she was incompetent, it was only a matter of time before she would embarrass herself and, therefore, her boss, the Lord Obama, the Most Merciful.


Well, the “matter of time” turned out to be a “matter of weeks”.

First there was the document sent to law-enforcement agencies across the country which this Blog discussed days and days ago and I will not bore return readers by gloating. Instead, I’ll simply insert some other opinions:-

Richard Thompson with the Thomas More Law Center called this DHS security assessment "a diatribe against those who oppose the policies of the Obama administration. It is a declaration of war against the American people and our constitution. It is a prelude to extreme gun control legislation and hate speech laws targeting Christian churches and others who oppose abortion and same sex marriage."

Michael Reagan asked: "Have we really come to this? Has Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels been reborn and recruited by the Obama administration to scare the heck out of the American people with absurdities such as this whacked-out document?"

And then Michelle Malkin summed it all up: "What and who exactly are President Obama's homeland security officials afraid of these days? If you are a member of an active conservative group that opposes abortion, favors strict immigration enforcement, lobbies to protect Second Amendment rights, protests big government, advocates federalism, or represents veterans who believe in any of the above, the answer is: You."

If this wasn’t enough for Nappy to be fired now we have the embarrassment of her interview with a guy from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

In that interview she claimed that “entering the US as an illegal was not a ‘criminal’ act”. Then she went on to affirm that 911 happened because some of the perpertrators came via Canada.

Now the Secretary must have spent too much time in the sun of Arizona or too much time sampling the more exotic mushroom dishes of New Mexico tribes as she prepared her case on behalf of Anita Hill. The fact is, the 911 Commission dismissed that claim years ago. The Commission knew it, I know it and the interviewer knew it and so he probed some more.

Then, even the Secretary knew she’d screwed something up but she wasn’t quite sure what or where. But, ever the politician, she did what all politicians do, she carried on talking and hinted darkly that she couldn’t talk about it. Boswell once reported a quotation of Samuel Johnson where he announced that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel” or, in the Secretary’s case the “scoundreless”. Anyway, she resorted to the following blather, “But I can talk about the future and the future is we have borders”.

No wonder Anita Hill lost.

Nappy has to go!

And that’s all good news too because, at least, she can’t come back here to her post in Arizona.

Here’s a quiz for American readers. Do you know what a “nappy” is? After that it’s not too long a stretch to imagine what it’s often filled with.