04.10.10
Cult of EMP Crazy: Dick Morris advises
It was only a couple days ago when the Short Count advised us the hottest idea from the mentally ill far right was to attack Iran with electromagnetic pulsing nuclear bombs. (Just hit the ‘Crazy Weapons’ tab on the right or type ‘Short Count’ into the search bar.)
But nourished by a steady diet of Heritage Foundation press releases (how’d that one naughty thing slip in there, tee-hee), it never takes long for GOP stalwarts to bring the threat of us being electromagnetic pulsed into discussion.
It’s been written into GOP national security policy that it must be mentioned at least once every 48-hour cycle. Or sooner. Generally speaking, the media’s opinion page editors pretend not to notice how nuts this is.
Writes Dick Morris today:
Republicans should reply [to Obama’s non-nuclear retaliation announcement] by introducing a bill in the Senate committing the United States to a nuclear response should any nation attack us with biological, chemical or electromagnetic pulse weapons. Let the Democrats vote against it. Let them filibuster it. Let them explain why we will not use our strongest weapons to deter an attack that could kill millions of our citizens or immobilize our entire economy!
Obama’s motivations for this absurd policy are plain enough. He wants to up the ante for Iran and make it clear that the Islamic Republic can develop crippling weapons for use against the United States without going nuclear. He wants to invest chemical, biological and electromagnetic pulse weaponry with an impunity that can only be obtained at the price of nuclear virginity …
He has made a big mistake, and the Republicans must pounce on it.
Morris is counting on the assumption that GOP voters, Tea Baggers and such don’t know that the usual Heritage script for electronic pulse attack involves Iran using an atomic bomb. Which, of course, is a situation under which President Obama’s nuclear get-out-of-jail free card is not redeemable.