Is the White House that stupid or was this just Axelrod telling a political lie?

Facing the threat, &c.

Nordlinger writes,

David Axelrod said something interesting after the terror in Boston. (He is the president’s chief political strategist.) 

He said the president was connecting the bombing to Tax Day.

Friday night, I was sitting in a concert hall. 

The critic sitting behind me was saying to his friend, “I assumed this was right-wing domestic terror. It happened on Tax Day.”

The other week, a U.S. Army instructor issued a list of threats — a list headed “Religious Extremism.” 

At the top of the list was “Evangelical Christianity (U.S./Christian).”

Two years ago, Mayor Bloomberg in New York guessed that the Times Square terrorist was opposed to Obamacare.

You have to hope this sort of thing is just pious bullshit and not a reflection of their true opinions.

Right wing terrorism is fairly rare and generally directed at police or government officials, not the American public.

That could change, of course.

But it hasn't.

I am not aware anyone on the right is suggesting it, but I will.

How about a moratorium on Muslim immigration?

And maybe a ban, for the duration of the global Islamist uprising, on Muslims coming here for education or any purpose that requires more than the briefest residence?

And let's deport any non-citizens, shall we?

If not, why not?

No bullshit about rights, justice, or morality allowed. 

If there are reasons we should run the added risk of terrorism letting Muslims in brings with it, what are they?

And I am far from saying there are none or that they are insufficient.

Just asking for clarity, here.