How Should Republicans Respond Now That Obama Is Killing More Terrorists Than Bush?

That's easy -- criticize him for killing too many terrorists:

Marc Thiessen, former President Bush's speechwriter and the author of Courting Disaster, now complains that President Obama is killing too many terrorists. "Today, the Obama administration is no longer attempting to capture men like these alive; it is simply killing them. This may be satisfying, but it comes at a price. With every drone strike that vaporizes a senior al Qaeda leader, actionable intelligence is vaporized along with him. Dead terrorists can't tell you their plans to strike America."

Here is an interesting article by Spencer Ackerman on the GOP's failed attempts to attack Obama on national security issues in the wake of the Christmas Day Crotch Bomber:

Very little of whatever Keep America Safe can throw at the Obama administration has survived the Christmas-Day pushback. Even Dennis Blair’s epic Congressional fail hasn’t damaged the administration. Instead, it’s plainly and thoroughly refuted most every conservative national-security article of faith. Mirandizing terrorists inhibits intelligence collection? Wrong. Charging a terrorist in criminal court is a danger? Hundreds have been convicted that way. Non-torturous methods of interrogation fail? They work better. Call the Obama team pussies and they’ll back down? They’ll smack the tartar off your teeth. The public will rally around Republicans if they just ignorantly yell OMG TERRORISM loud enough? They’ll go to the other guy.

There’s just nothing left. Guantanamo, I guess. But there, if they thought about it, they would be happy with Obama’s approach. Instead, the GOP, for the first time in decades, is completely discredited on national security, without any credible spokespeople, after the public remembers the experience of how Republicans started an unnecessary war at the expense of a necessary one. And now it’s all exposed.

The reason the Republicans are looking so bad on national security issues right now is because they've decided to oppose Obama on everything, even on stuff they previously supported. I guess they've made the political calculation that it is better for them to look like complete idiots than it is for them to concede that Obama is doing a good job at something. I have no doubt that the Tea-Baggers love this strategy.