Terrorism in America, Newt Gingrich is an idiot edition

One of the only reason's I have a twitter account is so I have instant access to Newt Gingrich's latest ideas for revitalizing the Republican Party. This is because whatever type of day I'm having, I can always read his latest musings and take comfort in the fact that the revitalization of the Republican Party will not happen in our lifetime. The most recent example of this is Newt announcing his appearance on Fox News where he covers 'releasing terrorists into the U.S." His quote: "Just had remarkable interview with chris wallace on foxnews sunday. I asserted releasing terrorist trainees into america on welfare is insane "

I do agree that putting terrorist into American society and then paying for their unemployment would be a pretty stupid policy. The only thing worse than someone who is trying to kill Americans, is someone who is trying to kill Americans while using food stamps to pay for their crack habit. This might come as a surprise to those of you who have yet to hear about President Obama's plan to subsidize terrorism (Republican's want to privatize it), but of course, the reality of the proposal is a bit different.

We all (most of us) want to close down Guantanamo. Only problem is that we don't really have a place to send a lot of the prisoners too. They will be tortured or killed in their own countries and nobody else seems to want them. Therefore, we have to put them in prisons right here in the U.S. Republicans, who I guess are of the belief that these terrorists have some prison escaping ability that the average inmate lacks, are screaming about how this will endanger the U.S. now that we have terrorists on our soil. I really wish I was making this up. Even assuming one of these guys managed to escape, he would still face the issue of being an Arab, who doesn't speak much English, running around an area where the local news would alert everybody to the presence of an Arab who doesn't speak English. Do Republican's really think he would manage to hijack a plane in those circumstances? Or maybe he can pull off a suicide bombing?

I'm also not so sure what Newt means about the welfare part. Is he implying that by feeding terrorists while in prison, we're putting them on welfare? Does he hope if we take them off "welfare" maybe they will go out and find a job? If this is his logic, would he support legalizing marijuana so we would have less people on "welfare?" Or should we just let all prisoners starve?

But in case you thought using this idea as a way to destroy Obama was limited to Newt, listen to what Michael Goldfarb had to say about comparisons to our internment of Nazi POW's on American soil during WWII:

“Here’s a clip of Rep. Pete Hoekstra at the presser this morning explaining to a particularly thick reporter why the threat posed by al Qaeda detainees is different, and far more serious, that that posed by German prisoners of war. As Hoekstra explains, the Germans didn’t kill three thousand American civilians as they went to work."

I really want to come up with a devastating takedown that's not weaker than simply posting the statement and leaving it as is. It is true that the Germans didn't kill that many American civilians when they went to work, although they almost took over the world, which would make them far more dangerous than Al-Qaeda who have a lose hold on a part of Pakistan that nobody even really wants. This would seem fairly obvious to most people, altough it flys over the head of Goldfarb. My advice to the GOP - drop the "Al Qaeda is more dangerous than the Nazi's" line, not even Al Qaeda thinks its true.