With the Iraq war going about as well as a French defensive maneuver, there were some wiseasses who remarked that it would be better just to put deposed dictator Saddam Hussein back into power. That ain't gonna happen, but here is the next best thing, I guess. It will be interesting to see how this one blows up in Turbo's face.
And while that bit of less than satisfying news is out, here is an indication that John "The Escalator" McCain is going to risk losing Afghanistan, where the actual 9/11 terrorists hid out, so that he can send 30,000 more troops to get bogged down in Operation Qwagmire. Osama Bin Laden must think that McCain is Bush's comedy writer or something because I'm sure he had a good chuckle over that one.
Not that funny, though, is that Bush, in what should probably be called Operation Save My Legacy, may decide to join McCain in suggesting more troops be dropped into Iraq. Talk about sociopathically selfish.
However, the rats are really deserting him as his poll numbers make mole-like and dig deeper holes.
The irony for me is that incoming Speaker of the House Nancy, "I need a visit from the clue patrol at committee nomination time" Pelosi is going to create a new intelligence oversight committee. Hmmm....Bush? Intelligence? Talk about no there there. Is it grounds for impeachment if they find no intelligence at Camp Clusterfuck? Or is it just for seeing that the non-existent intelligence is deployed where it can least hurt the republic?
Surely another sign of deficient intelligence is that we are now going to help motherfucking commie China with its nuclear reactor program. Chris Cox has his fingerprints on this somewhere. He has been the biggest Chinese collaborator since we tried to prop up the heinous Chang "Peanut" Kai-shek after WWII. The last super computer sale to that country was under Cox' auspices.
In Japan, being in the Jieitai, or Self Defence Force, is imbued with the coolness level that is associated in the U.S. with losers who spend their time playing Dungeons and Dragons. But now that the education system is about to get more outwardly patriotic, it will be interesting to see if that changes. It is hard to believe, though, that Japan will create a military establishment large enough to project any power because it is better economically to allow the U.S. to do it for them. That is not to mention that both China and the Koreas will shit their collective pants and thereby heighten diplomatic tensions in Asia.
Call the Tim Johnson situation "a stroke of ghoulishness."
Show of hands time: did any of you care about how long it took the state of Florida to dispatch a death row inmate this past week? Me neither.
And may Castro be in agony as he makes his way to that eternal farm.
Not scheduled for a trip to the boneyard but maybe just to get boned is Judith Regan, jet setting slut (well, maybe not, but one gets that impression from her appearances on Howard Stern's show) and O.J. Simpson ("murderers are the new black and he's even black," she must have thought) stenographer. She was told to take a hike by Rupert Murdoch, the Chinese Polituburo piss boy, and his Harper Collins outfit for, get this, embarrassing the company that pinched off the rightwing propaganda mill Faux Nooz. Maybe the Chinese didn't like her.
Your hydrochloric herald has about as much use for a record executive as he would a collection of Wayne Newton's best bowel movements, but an exception to that is Atlantic Records honcho Ahmet Ertegun, who passed away at 83 after, now check this out, falling off the stage at a Rolling Stones show. Yes, it was only rock and roll but he liked it.
Showing posts with label George W. Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George W. Bush. Show all posts
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Random Thoughts
First, to dispel a rumor, Christmas is not engaging in a ballistic mistle toe buildup to answer the war on it.
Now for a plug: go to the Minor Ripper blog and scroll down to see how the U.S. military is making friends and influencing people among Iraqi motorists. It's a little reminiscent of what happened in South Korea a couple of years back when an American tank crushed a schoolgirl, setting off an absolutely vicious firestorm of controversy there. The average Korean does not want anybody's army there except its own, but recognizes that they are, for the time being, in a relationship of convenience with the U.S. to combat the North Korean Communist threat.
Time to get the wallets open and go after pantomime Republican moderate Susan Collins. Representative Tom Allen has thrown down the gauntlet for Democrats and we need to ensure that he helps cushion our majority in that chamber.
So anybody see the story of a student who was suspended for faking putting some candy up his nose? Yes, you read that correctly. Again, it proves that the administrators are the most useless individuals on any school campus. But it gets even more bizarre from there.
Now Bush thinks that he is dictator of the world. He is so divorced from reality that it doesn't even want alimony. It is just glad to get away from him. And he is more isolated right now than a Taco Bell burrito in the break room of the Center for Disease Control.
Anti-white bigot Spike Lee is now going to make a movie about the Rodney King riots. No word if Representative Maxine Waters, another bigot, and former city councilman Mark "my people won't riot" Thomas will have a part in it. Waters still calls it "an insurrection" and not an orgy of death and destruction where gangs of blacks, much like the Ku Klux Klan in an earlier time, went after Korean-American merchants in downtowm L.A. No doubt, Lee will whitewash the blatantly racist behavior by blacks and blame it all on whitey. God, he's disgusting.
To you assholes out there who are buying Hewlett-Packard computers, why? They are shit. And here is another reason you should bypass them.
Now it's time for our math corner, but put those calculators away, it isn't that type of math. Here is the problem: Pakistan is our ally in the war on terror. They have been in conflict with neighboring India for decades and the issue has often threatened to go nuclear. So what does the Bush Administration do? Of course! Send more nuclear technology to India! Boy, he just knows how to strike the right diplomatic chords, doesn't he? Not to mention that security in India is about as firm as Bob Dole's cock.
Hillary Clinton is definitely running for president. How do you know? Because she is getting involved in bullshit video game content issues in order to play up to the religious gapejaws out there. So let's see: we got a war we're about to lose at great cost to the economy and military preparedness not to mention those who were killed and wounded there, problems with funding the schools and government corruption and Hillary is preoccupied with video games for fuck's sake! She might want to see this article, too, which suggests that her taking part in this could leave people cold.
Look, there shouldn't be any ratings at all for tv, movies, music or video games. You can read the fucking reviews and determine whether you should go see or buy the item in question. We don't need a bunch of out of touch old ladies from motherfucking Iowa telling us what we should be able to consume. It is none of their business.
This is all part of the GOP war on adults, be it getting Howard Stern off the air, attempting to limit the availability of porno or now video games. Just shut the fuck up and mind your own business you twats! We shouldn't have to live in a world where seven year olds are the artistic arbiters.
Really, I would like to see the Democrats target Waters, the Saddam of South Central, for defeat because she is, let's face it, just a blackfaced Strom Thurmond with a tits and a pussy. But I doubt that Howard Dean would have the stones for it.
Now back to more conventional bigotry: while the usual GOP hatemongers are decrying Mary Cheney deciding to have a baby, The Advocate is worried about what the kid will face gorwing up since its grandpa is a big enabler for anti-gay mountebanks.
While reading this article, keep in mind that Taylor's dad and devil with a priestly collar on Pat Robertson are each other's BFF. Again, religion about power and wealth, not spirituality.
Now for a bit of fun, see how a British general is getting his clock cleaned in the media for trying to go from Bush/Blair poodle to crusader.
And how much you wanna bet that the anti-semites in the religious right are going off on a decision by conservative Jews to recognize gay rabbis? And I had to post a link to a Time Magazine article on the subject just for the headline, which is a howler.
Blogger Mark Byron had this observation about the move by the Jewish organization: "I've got the New Yawk Jewish mom sound bite-"I'd have hoped he'd have married a nice Jewish girl, but at least he's marrying a Jew." You might also want to check out Steve Gimbel's reaction as well at Philospher's Playground.
For a more thoughtful view on the conflicts within Judaism about the issue, see Pillage Idiot.
Meanwhile, on the roads of Washington state....
And somebody call Dr. Phil and have him try to get major league baseball owners from shopping like drunken sailors on shore leave. They just gave nobody Mariners pitcher Gil Meche a five year, $55 million deal and he has a career ERA of 4.65! Julio Lugo, a pretty good but hardly superstar shortstop, is now taking in something like $9 million. All the owners are Republicans and are thus genetically incapable of sticking to a budget. Now do you understand why we have the swollen budget deficits we do? Mamma mia!
Now for a plug: go to the Minor Ripper blog and scroll down to see how the U.S. military is making friends and influencing people among Iraqi motorists. It's a little reminiscent of what happened in South Korea a couple of years back when an American tank crushed a schoolgirl, setting off an absolutely vicious firestorm of controversy there. The average Korean does not want anybody's army there except its own, but recognizes that they are, for the time being, in a relationship of convenience with the U.S. to combat the North Korean Communist threat.
Time to get the wallets open and go after pantomime Republican moderate Susan Collins. Representative Tom Allen has thrown down the gauntlet for Democrats and we need to ensure that he helps cushion our majority in that chamber.
So anybody see the story of a student who was suspended for faking putting some candy up his nose? Yes, you read that correctly. Again, it proves that the administrators are the most useless individuals on any school campus. But it gets even more bizarre from there.
Now Bush thinks that he is dictator of the world. He is so divorced from reality that it doesn't even want alimony. It is just glad to get away from him. And he is more isolated right now than a Taco Bell burrito in the break room of the Center for Disease Control.
Anti-white bigot Spike Lee is now going to make a movie about the Rodney King riots. No word if Representative Maxine Waters, another bigot, and former city councilman Mark "my people won't riot" Thomas will have a part in it. Waters still calls it "an insurrection" and not an orgy of death and destruction where gangs of blacks, much like the Ku Klux Klan in an earlier time, went after Korean-American merchants in downtowm L.A. No doubt, Lee will whitewash the blatantly racist behavior by blacks and blame it all on whitey. God, he's disgusting.
To you assholes out there who are buying Hewlett-Packard computers, why? They are shit. And here is another reason you should bypass them.
Now it's time for our math corner, but put those calculators away, it isn't that type of math. Here is the problem: Pakistan is our ally in the war on terror. They have been in conflict with neighboring India for decades and the issue has often threatened to go nuclear. So what does the Bush Administration do? Of course! Send more nuclear technology to India! Boy, he just knows how to strike the right diplomatic chords, doesn't he? Not to mention that security in India is about as firm as Bob Dole's cock.
Hillary Clinton is definitely running for president. How do you know? Because she is getting involved in bullshit video game content issues in order to play up to the religious gapejaws out there. So let's see: we got a war we're about to lose at great cost to the economy and military preparedness not to mention those who were killed and wounded there, problems with funding the schools and government corruption and Hillary is preoccupied with video games for fuck's sake! She might want to see this article, too, which suggests that her taking part in this could leave people cold.
Look, there shouldn't be any ratings at all for tv, movies, music or video games. You can read the fucking reviews and determine whether you should go see or buy the item in question. We don't need a bunch of out of touch old ladies from motherfucking Iowa telling us what we should be able to consume. It is none of their business.
This is all part of the GOP war on adults, be it getting Howard Stern off the air, attempting to limit the availability of porno or now video games. Just shut the fuck up and mind your own business you twats! We shouldn't have to live in a world where seven year olds are the artistic arbiters.
Really, I would like to see the Democrats target Waters, the Saddam of South Central, for defeat because she is, let's face it, just a blackfaced Strom Thurmond with a tits and a pussy. But I doubt that Howard Dean would have the stones for it.
Now back to more conventional bigotry: while the usual GOP hatemongers are decrying Mary Cheney deciding to have a baby, The Advocate is worried about what the kid will face gorwing up since its grandpa is a big enabler for anti-gay mountebanks.
While reading this article, keep in mind that Taylor's dad and devil with a priestly collar on Pat Robertson are each other's BFF. Again, religion about power and wealth, not spirituality.
Now for a bit of fun, see how a British general is getting his clock cleaned in the media for trying to go from Bush/Blair poodle to crusader.
And how much you wanna bet that the anti-semites in the religious right are going off on a decision by conservative Jews to recognize gay rabbis? And I had to post a link to a Time Magazine article on the subject just for the headline, which is a howler.
Blogger Mark Byron had this observation about the move by the Jewish organization: "I've got the New Yawk Jewish mom sound bite-"I'd have hoped he'd have married a nice Jewish girl, but at least he's marrying a Jew." You might also want to check out Steve Gimbel's reaction as well at Philospher's Playground.
For a more thoughtful view on the conflicts within Judaism about the issue, see Pillage Idiot.
Meanwhile, on the roads of Washington state....
And somebody call Dr. Phil and have him try to get major league baseball owners from shopping like drunken sailors on shore leave. They just gave nobody Mariners pitcher Gil Meche a five year, $55 million deal and he has a career ERA of 4.65! Julio Lugo, a pretty good but hardly superstar shortstop, is now taking in something like $9 million. All the owners are Republicans and are thus genetically incapable of sticking to a budget. Now do you understand why we have the swollen budget deficits we do? Mamma mia!
Monday, November 27, 2006
Dispatches From Camp Clusterfuck
Mr. 250 Pounds of Wrong, Newt Gingrich, wants to help terrorists win by abrogating free speech.
Gingrich also equates Bush with George Washington in calling for continuing involvement in the Iraq fiasco. How many lobotomies does one have to have to buy THAT one? Washington's relatives ought to be incensed!
Republican Representative Tom Tancretin has called Cuban-American dominated Miami "a third world country" in an interview with World Wackmaster Daily. No word on what flavor shoe polish he was tasting when he uttered that one.
No matter what U.S. does, bloody civil war in Iraq inevitable.
Washington Post seems to admit it is a mouthpiece for Bush's phony baloney Iraqi government....
Even as Michael Froomkin calls Bush's upcoming meeting with Jordan "a charade", Bush, who once condemned "old Europe" as out of touch, now begs for military support from them.
CNN's Michael Ware gets up close and personal with Bush's Baghdad clusterfuck.
Iraq Study Group a study in a whole lotta nothing.
Republicans do soft shoe to stay out of a War Crimes Tribunal docket.
A geographic look at U.S. military options in Iraq. It's got lots of pictures, so maybe even prez Turbo can understand it.
Al Qaeda power expanded under Bush bumbling.
But does he understand his poll numbers tanked again?"
Two words you never thought you would hear associated with our dumbass in chief: "library" and "think tank."
Brother Neil, though, got himself some money earmarked for schools.
Is Bigtime about to bail after a career trying to restore the imperial presidency?
Will there be blowback for the punditocracy for cheerleading the Iraq mess?
American Muslims show the stupidity of religion.
For women yak yak yak is their heroin while for men it is all about pussy and science says so.
Aussie wheat outfit bribed Saddam with $224 milion and duped Norm Coleman (R-MN) out of investigation.
Republican congressman Curt Weldon threatened a foreign aid cutoff to Moldova after friend's distillery venture in Russia went south. Can you say, "extortion?"
Diplomatic wizardry from Rush Limbaugh.
Minimum wage increase helps job creation.
U.S. economy supposedly growing, but some facts undercut that.
Creationism idiocy invades Britain from America.
Democratic wipeout of GOP in Washington state could mean smoother sailing for agenda.
A new day, another Republican lie.
New Jersey Republicans try to have it both ways on gay marriage issue; wait until you get a load of THIS!
Maxine Waters, shut the fuck up!
Slight recline better for back than sitting up straight.
Feds Bust Country Singer for Illegal Bear Killing. Somebody send him hunting with Cheney!
Gingrich also equates Bush with George Washington in calling for continuing involvement in the Iraq fiasco. How many lobotomies does one have to have to buy THAT one? Washington's relatives ought to be incensed!
Republican Representative Tom Tancretin has called Cuban-American dominated Miami "a third world country" in an interview with World Wackmaster Daily. No word on what flavor shoe polish he was tasting when he uttered that one.
No matter what U.S. does, bloody civil war in Iraq inevitable.
Washington Post seems to admit it is a mouthpiece for Bush's phony baloney Iraqi government....
Even as Michael Froomkin calls Bush's upcoming meeting with Jordan "a charade", Bush, who once condemned "old Europe" as out of touch, now begs for military support from them.
CNN's Michael Ware gets up close and personal with Bush's Baghdad clusterfuck.
Iraq Study Group a study in a whole lotta nothing.
Republicans do soft shoe to stay out of a War Crimes Tribunal docket.
A geographic look at U.S. military options in Iraq. It's got lots of pictures, so maybe even prez Turbo can understand it.
Al Qaeda power expanded under Bush bumbling.
But does he understand his poll numbers tanked again?"
Two words you never thought you would hear associated with our dumbass in chief: "library" and "think tank."
Brother Neil, though, got himself some money earmarked for schools.
Is Bigtime about to bail after a career trying to restore the imperial presidency?
Will there be blowback for the punditocracy for cheerleading the Iraq mess?
American Muslims show the stupidity of religion.
For women yak yak yak is their heroin while for men it is all about pussy and science says so.
Aussie wheat outfit bribed Saddam with $224 milion and duped Norm Coleman (R-MN) out of investigation.
Republican congressman Curt Weldon threatened a foreign aid cutoff to Moldova after friend's distillery venture in Russia went south. Can you say, "extortion?"
Diplomatic wizardry from Rush Limbaugh.
Minimum wage increase helps job creation.
U.S. economy supposedly growing, but some facts undercut that.
Creationism idiocy invades Britain from America.
Democratic wipeout of GOP in Washington state could mean smoother sailing for agenda.
A new day, another Republican lie.
New Jersey Republicans try to have it both ways on gay marriage issue; wait until you get a load of THIS!
Maxine Waters, shut the fuck up!
Slight recline better for back than sitting up straight.
Feds Bust Country Singer for Illegal Bear Killing. Somebody send him hunting with Cheney!
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
More Republican Idiocy
The perpetual surveillance state.
Republican cartoon characters declare war on actual cartoons.
Gunplay in National Parks to be Senator George Allen's uh, parting shot.
Massive corruption, U.S. tactical missteps leading to Taliban resurgence.
Bush sided with foreign wheat growers over those in America's heartland.
Bush, GOP Congress tells working folk to go to hell.
Incompetent Bush BFF Vicente Fox helping gangsters take over Mexican border towns.
Bush Team 100 member Robert Bass' protege's company indicted by South Korea for Stock Manipulation, embezzlement, other charges.
Money leads to rightwing cave on Vietnam trade.
Teacher turns public school classroom into hosanna hut and then lies about it:
Republican cartoon characters declare war on actual cartoons.
Gunplay in National Parks to be Senator George Allen's uh, parting shot.
Massive corruption, U.S. tactical missteps leading to Taliban resurgence.
Bush sided with foreign wheat growers over those in America's heartland.
Bush, GOP Congress tells working folk to go to hell.
Incompetent Bush BFF Vicente Fox helping gangsters take over Mexican border towns.
Bush Team 100 member Robert Bass' protege's company indicted by South Korea for Stock Manipulation, embezzlement, other charges.
Money leads to rightwing cave on Vietnam trade.
Teacher turns public school classroom into hosanna hut and then lies about it:
Monday, November 20, 2006
It's Time to Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attack, Washington D.C. bureaucrats decided to go forth and multiply, giving birth to a new entity, the Department of Homeland Security in perhaps the second most expensive overreaction to a problem since the Spanish-American War. Those of you who payed attention in history class will recall that we used an explosion on a ship called The Maine as a predicate for seizing some of Spain's possessions. Spain was such a dessicated power by that time that taking them on was a bit like me punching out Jessica Tandy. Not a fair fight. We then went and killed over 100,000 Filipinos in a follow up aborted revolution.
As it turned out, though, what caused the detonation of The Maine was spontaneous combustion down below in the coal magazine. Whoops!
While Americans are likewise thinking that the Iraq War was the wrong conflict at an ill fitting chronological juncture, making it the most costly snafu in response to a conundrum in American annals, just below it was the creepily named DHS. I will be buying a couple of bags of chips and some dip in preparation for the visit I will probably get from national security cops after posting this piece so as not to be a bad host. I must admit that since I don't drink I'm not sure what wine you are supposed to serve during an interrogation.
Homeland Security was a tacit admission that Boy George didn't have the leadership to do what he needed to as President of the United States. It was ostensibly (a word meaning somebody is making up a lame excuse) originally devised as a way to more efficiently enact security measures and enable closer collaboration between foreign (CIA) and domestic (FBI) intelligence agencies. What is wrong with this is that we already have a defense department. It used to be called The Department of War, but that was no doubt changed to make it more warm and fuzzy to Mr. and Mrs. Gapejaw American. So have they become incapable of defending American shores now? God only knows they haven't been able to keep a lid on Iraq since the mission was pronounced accomplished by Bush nor are they exactly up to holding off a resurgent Taliban.
In any event, when we are sold a Department of Defense we want an actual Department of Defense. Donald Rumsfeld, who will go down in history as a joke, has some explaining to do on that front.
Then there is the FBI, which is supposed to handle domestic spying. Now we didn't seem to have any problems in that area during WWII or during Vietnam, when the number of constitutional rights they violated was equal to the digits you see on a McDonald's sign.
When someone becomes president, he is supposed to fulfill the role that the DHS does. If you can't crack heads to get the CIA and the FBI to share information with you that might affect the safety of citizens on the American mainland and Hawaii then you should resign. It is called dereliction of your duty in that office. You shouldn't need a multibillion dollar agency to pass the buck to. Bush is the commander in chief even if he has tried to run the country like it was a college fraternity Monday Through Saturday and a pentacostal church on Sunday.
Bush then politicized the new bureaucracy by using it as a go to conduit with which to stir up fear among the electorate to fortify his party's electoral position. Bush didn't just cry wolf, but also pretty much every other animal that you can see in a decent sized zoo and now people just roll their eyes when the words, "according to the Department of Homeland Security...." are uttered. The Katrina debacle didn't exactly help people take it any more seriously.
Let's face it: terrorism wasn't on Bush's radar and he didn't want to hear about it. Instead, he was obsessed with getting ruinous tax breaks passed so that we not only had 9/11, but we also now have an accumulated budget deficit that gives the Saudis, the Chinese and other holders of the bonds that are used to finance that red ink a measure of leverage over us and our currency. Boy, I feel so much safer knowing that.
Cheney? Hard on for Iraq to the exclusion of just about everything else except aiding his energy buddies in reaming the American consumer. Cheney was so busy cooking up the phony rationale for toppling Saddam Hussein that he wasn't available to be Bush's intelligence factotum.
So with a chance to give more cronies and people he owes favors to a chance to take up space in the bureaucracy, the DHS was created with the aim of: 1) looking like they were doing something; 2) had something to pawn responsibility off on if there was another large scale terrorism incident on U.S. soil. As usual, however, Bush was doing nothing and making taxpayers pay through the nose for it.
And get this, the U.S. military was firing interpreters with Arabic skills because they were gay despite a shortage in that vital capability. Jerry Falwell might feel better that latrines weren't being used as what homesexuals call "tea rooms (bathrooms where trysts take place)," but it further eroded out intelligence gathering ability. In a funny way, that means that Falwell, James Dobson, Ted Haggard and Pat Robertson are threats to national security due to their urge for a gay purge and holding Bush's feet to the fire to get it done. Call them "Focus on the Faggots."
If we had a REAL president (Bill Clinton, say), the DHS wouldn't have happened and that would have been a good thing. That is because a real president knows what questions to ask and who to read the riot act to. America found out, though, that when you ride with stupid you're on the hot rails to hell.
As it turned out, though, what caused the detonation of The Maine was spontaneous combustion down below in the coal magazine. Whoops!
While Americans are likewise thinking that the Iraq War was the wrong conflict at an ill fitting chronological juncture, making it the most costly snafu in response to a conundrum in American annals, just below it was the creepily named DHS. I will be buying a couple of bags of chips and some dip in preparation for the visit I will probably get from national security cops after posting this piece so as not to be a bad host. I must admit that since I don't drink I'm not sure what wine you are supposed to serve during an interrogation.
Homeland Security was a tacit admission that Boy George didn't have the leadership to do what he needed to as President of the United States. It was ostensibly (a word meaning somebody is making up a lame excuse) originally devised as a way to more efficiently enact security measures and enable closer collaboration between foreign (CIA) and domestic (FBI) intelligence agencies. What is wrong with this is that we already have a defense department. It used to be called The Department of War, but that was no doubt changed to make it more warm and fuzzy to Mr. and Mrs. Gapejaw American. So have they become incapable of defending American shores now? God only knows they haven't been able to keep a lid on Iraq since the mission was pronounced accomplished by Bush nor are they exactly up to holding off a resurgent Taliban.
In any event, when we are sold a Department of Defense we want an actual Department of Defense. Donald Rumsfeld, who will go down in history as a joke, has some explaining to do on that front.
Then there is the FBI, which is supposed to handle domestic spying. Now we didn't seem to have any problems in that area during WWII or during Vietnam, when the number of constitutional rights they violated was equal to the digits you see on a McDonald's sign.
When someone becomes president, he is supposed to fulfill the role that the DHS does. If you can't crack heads to get the CIA and the FBI to share information with you that might affect the safety of citizens on the American mainland and Hawaii then you should resign. It is called dereliction of your duty in that office. You shouldn't need a multibillion dollar agency to pass the buck to. Bush is the commander in chief even if he has tried to run the country like it was a college fraternity Monday Through Saturday and a pentacostal church on Sunday.
Bush then politicized the new bureaucracy by using it as a go to conduit with which to stir up fear among the electorate to fortify his party's electoral position. Bush didn't just cry wolf, but also pretty much every other animal that you can see in a decent sized zoo and now people just roll their eyes when the words, "according to the Department of Homeland Security...." are uttered. The Katrina debacle didn't exactly help people take it any more seriously.
Let's face it: terrorism wasn't on Bush's radar and he didn't want to hear about it. Instead, he was obsessed with getting ruinous tax breaks passed so that we not only had 9/11, but we also now have an accumulated budget deficit that gives the Saudis, the Chinese and other holders of the bonds that are used to finance that red ink a measure of leverage over us and our currency. Boy, I feel so much safer knowing that.
Cheney? Hard on for Iraq to the exclusion of just about everything else except aiding his energy buddies in reaming the American consumer. Cheney was so busy cooking up the phony rationale for toppling Saddam Hussein that he wasn't available to be Bush's intelligence factotum.
So with a chance to give more cronies and people he owes favors to a chance to take up space in the bureaucracy, the DHS was created with the aim of: 1) looking like they were doing something; 2) had something to pawn responsibility off on if there was another large scale terrorism incident on U.S. soil. As usual, however, Bush was doing nothing and making taxpayers pay through the nose for it.
And get this, the U.S. military was firing interpreters with Arabic skills because they were gay despite a shortage in that vital capability. Jerry Falwell might feel better that latrines weren't being used as what homesexuals call "tea rooms (bathrooms where trysts take place)," but it further eroded out intelligence gathering ability. In a funny way, that means that Falwell, James Dobson, Ted Haggard and Pat Robertson are threats to national security due to their urge for a gay purge and holding Bush's feet to the fire to get it done. Call them "Focus on the Faggots."
If we had a REAL president (Bill Clinton, say), the DHS wouldn't have happened and that would have been a good thing. That is because a real president knows what questions to ask and who to read the riot act to. America found out, though, that when you ride with stupid you're on the hot rails to hell.
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