The irony, it burns, it burns!

Law sought on explosive fertilizer
By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Counterterrorism experts and lawmakers from both parties are demanding that Congress pass a law to restrict the sale of a popular fertilizer that was the key component in the Oklahoma City bombing.

“Time is of the essence,” says Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. “This has been a material of choice in terrorist acts.”

Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in 1995 when he blew up Oklahoma City’s federal building with a 2.4-ton truck bomb made with ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

“Time is of the essence,” says Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa . . . Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in 1995 . . . bomb made with ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

So did Mimi get the irony when she put those first three paragraphs together? Or is she simply serving as a tool of the “scare ’em into voting right” crowd? Time is of the essence, 11 years later? Who are they kidding? Click through to read the rest of the article, if you can stand the burn.