Love the bogus, "see? told you that everything the government does is a waste" comments here.
Homeland Security was a republican contrivance by a republican President, supported by a republican congress (including Dems who were afraid of being accused of not fully panicking after 911 - or, in the pandering words of their excuse-makers, 'ensuring that everything is done to protect lives!') and given a most republican, right-wing name.
From day one of the HS administration, maintenance of unreasonably high citizen fear levels was a major goal - although the administration, to their defense, may legitimately have been as terrified of foreigners as they wanted the public to be. And spending on nonsense projects (I was in an elected municipal authority role at the time and saw some of it first-hand) was at a fevered pace. A few projects were sensible (eg mobile disaster response vehicles), but the vast majority were absurd overreactions (eg inventorying chlorine at public pools).
It's nice that Coburn has had enough. I'm genuinely impressed that he has the courage to try to gore this sacred ox. A full, tear-wrenching mea culpa, however, is in order from him and everyone else who voted in terror to give birth to this beast in the first place.
And a level of courage from his peers to get this monster under control would be in order, too. The President could take the lead on this mess if he saw fit, as he's now the HS owner.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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