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2015-01-04 Government

Oversight report finds major problems with DHS

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Posted by Fred 2015-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Disband it. That, the No Child Left Behind Act, and Medicare expansion were the 3 largest errors Bush made domestically as president.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-04 00:36|| 2015-01-04 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Could we possibly add the Departments of Education, Agriculture, and Energy to the disbanding list ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-04 00:41|| 2015-01-04 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 The report finds that Homeland Security is not successfully executing any of its five main missions. Do you suppose it has anything to do with politicizing the agency and filling it with hacks?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-04 09:31|| 2015-01-04 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Do you suppose it has anything to do with politicizing the agency and filling it with hacks?

No JohnQC, its just they are part of a

Posted by Mad Eye Slose4342 2015-01-04 09:43|| 2015-01-04 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 OS, 2 of those can be chalked up to "compassionate conservatism" and the DHS to his muddled world view trying to go along with Dimwitcrats. After 9/11 should "Go Shopping" really have been his rallying cry?

Posted by AlanC 2015-01-04 10:35|| 2015-01-04 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm shocked to read that a government agency isn't performing within normal parameters...

Posted by Raj 2015-01-04 11:44|| 2015-01-04 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Eliminate useless departments, make significant reductions in the budgets-----it's a twofer!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-01-04 14:19|| 2015-01-04 14:19|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm shocked to read that a government agency isn't performing within normal parameters

I was shocked to read the above sentence

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-04 14:23|| 2015-01-04 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 A;anC, there's more to that than you might think. Back about 2003 or so, I first heard the grumbling about not putting us on a war footing inside the military community. Along the lines of "We went to war, and America went to the Mall" or "The President sent us to war, and told America to go to the mall".

However you want to argue it, the 3 things I cited were huge domestic errors by Bush43. And hardly conservative at all - they all expanded government massively, and also curtailed liberty except for some cronies. The Bush, and the current GOP leadership have been "waterboys for the Chamber of Commerce" and servants of the crony capitalists who use government to control competition (thus destroying the free market). Time for that to stop.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-04 14:25|| 2015-01-04 14:25|| Front Page Top

#10 C'mon now, they keep us safe from terrorists. I mean, look how many terrorists they've stopped...

Posted by tu3031 2015-01-04 14:26|| 2015-01-04 14:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Even with the grim findings, Coburn expressed optimism about the Department?s future if Congress acts swiftly to address the problems in the report.

Cha-ching!

Posted by tu3031 2015-01-04 14:29|| 2015-01-04 14:29|| Front Page Top

#12 OS, Argue it?? I AGREE with what you said. Just trying to pinpoint the psychological underpinnings.

"Compassionate conservatism" runs hand in hand with Noblesse Oblige which seems to be a genetic trait in all Bushes. DHS doesn't fit that model, it fits the get along with the dhimmis model.

Posted by AlanC 2015-01-04 15:30|| 2015-01-04 15:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Bush 43 was better than the alternatives, better than what came before him, and WAY better than what followed him. Suggests that his politics, bad as they are, are about the best we can expect in these times?

Posted by Glenmore 2015-01-04 16:29|| 2015-01-04 16:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Too true Glemore, too true.

The last time I voted against a Bush was GHW in '92, couldn't vote for Slick Willie or the Texas Troll either so I went Libertarian. Of course living in Massaholia it was a moot point.

Posted by AlanC 2015-01-04 16:34|| 2015-01-04 16:34|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm not even going to read the article, knowing that it cannot be about our DHS/ sarc

Posted by Hupineger Glomomp7489 2015-01-04 21:50|| 2015-01-04 21:50|| Front Page Top