deputy attorney general has been blocked by the senate. sounds like republicans are throwing a temper tantrum again. that s next. president obama gets osama bin laden but not without some criticism of course. we ll ask e.j. dionne and also mike papantoni to weigh in.
president obama they didn t expect to see. so this really i think means americans will never quite look at president obama the same way again and that has a political effect. e.j., i ll ask you again. why in the world would the republicans refuse to hold a vote honoring the s.e.a.l.s and the intelligence community when they ve already broken their rules on a number of issues? you know, i think they made a mistake on that. they have this they have expressed this desire not to clog the congress with all kinds of congratulatory resolutions. yeah. there is nothing wrong with that. there s a lot of junkie stuff that comes up. but on this one i just wish they would say they ve done things look an awful lot like this. they ought to just go ahead and do it what about that, mike? president obama might get some credit. they can t let that happen, right? republicans are suffering today. they have been the party that told us they were capable of good national security. even though
blocked by the senate. sounds like republicans are throwing a temper tantrum again. that s next. president obama gets osama bin laden but not without some criticism of course. we ll ask e.j. dionne and also mike papantoni to weigh in.
welcome back to the ed show. we ve been talking throughout the show tonight about the fallout from killing osama bin laden, what it really means. the fallout, it just keeps coming. cbs reporting tonight that there are more leads that are coming out by the hour. let s bring in washington post columnist and senior fellow at the brookings institution e.j. dionne and also the host of the ring of fire radio show, mike, gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. let s talk about osama bin laden and the raid and the legal wrangling that is going on by some liberals in this country and how they re struggling with it. the killing of osama bin laden, there is some liberal hand wringing but, mike, you re an attorney. were we on legal solid ground to do this the way we did it? well, the president pulled off was clearly legal, an act of national self-defense. bin laden was no different than any other enemy commander in the
responsible for 9/11 that was their watch, even though they re the people who failed to read that august 13th memo that said bin laden was going to attack the united states so they ve always been able to tell this lie to the american public that they re the party that can best protect this country. so right now they re suffering. they re having to live through the obvious and that is they really weren t that party that could keep this country safe. they were the party that couldn t catch bin laden for seven years and so this is a very troubling problem. mike, do you think their credibility on national security has been damaged? and of course what they re trying to do, hold up the deputy attorney general s confirmation. i think it s as damaged on national security as it was as it has been on the economy. look. they re out of place here ed. the fiscal conservative party that can solve our economic problems, they brought us into an economic abyss. now we find out that they re really