Following the Christmas Day terrorist attack on Americans going to Grandma’s for Christmas, let us duly note Obama’s “Heckuva Job, Brownie” moment by going to the press and announcing misinformation on the attack (isolated, not terrorist related, “alleged” attack etc), having his attorney general announce that it was an “alleged” attack with an alleged suspect, and Janet Napolitano hitting the Sunday talk shows saying, “the system worked.” Obama and Incompetano have since changed their minds and made themselves look idiotic in the process; not because they changed their minds, but because they didn’t check out the story in the first place before blithering on about it.
Mark Steyn (here) coins Napolitano’s new name: Janet Incompetano. Please make a note of it.

The only good news was that the derision was so universal that the TSA promptly reined in some of their wackier impositions a couple of days later. But by then Janet Incompetano, the homeland-security secretary, had gone on TV and declared to the world that there was nothing to worry about: “The system worked.”

Indeed, it worked “smoothly.” The al-Qaeda trainee on a terrorist watch list, a man banned from the United Kingdom and reported to the CIA by his own father, got on board the plane, assembled the bomb, and attempted to detonate it. But don’t worry ’bout a thing; the system worked.