By Mr. Curmudgeon

It’s been more than a month since a Nigerian working for Al Qaeda nearly brought down an airliner from the sky over Detroit on Christmas Day. After much soul searching and deliberation, the Justice Department unveiled the Obama administration’s new anti-terror replacement policy to Dick Cheney’s waterboarding – terrorists will cooperate or we’ll tell their daddy.

“Investigators flew to the suspect’s home country of Nigeria,” the Washington Post reports, “bringing back members of the suspect’s family Jan. 17 and using them to help encourage Abdulmutallab to talk.” The Obama administration is smarting after weeks of unrelenting criticism unleashed by Republicans unhappy with President Obama’s decision to treat enemy combatants as common criminals. Even rhino (Republican in name only) Sen. Susan Collins accused the administration of having a “blind spot” to terror in the Republican response to the president’s weekly radio address.

But it was the election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat that got the administration’s attention. Brown not only hammered his Democratic opponent for her support of ObamaCare but for supporting Obama’s trying terrorist in U.S. criminal courts. In his victory speech, Brown said, “tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.”

“No agency supported the use of law of war detention for Abdulmutallab,” said Attorney General Eric Holder, attempting to pass the buck, “and no agency has since advised the Department of Justice that an alternative course of action should have been, or should now be, pursued.” That’s not the job of agencies but of the President of the United States. So, who’s daddy do we have to talk to in order to change this administration’s idiotic terror policies?