Among Bush's failures: failure to protect the homeland

gee, it was only back in september that the 9/11 commission issued its first shitty report card on the bush administration's lousy progress on the commission's recommendations for homeland security, emergency preparedness and response... in my post of 17 september, i reported on 4 "unsatisfactory" and 7 "minimal progress" grades... of those 11 items, 5 were completely the responsibility of the executive branch... all 11, of course, fall into the category of "capable of being influenced by effective executive leadership" - assuming we had any... what would you say if one of your kids brought home a report card like this...?

this is what the report card looked like...



so, now it's december and it looks like nothing is changing... guess it's time to start restricting george's tv-watching, enforcing curfew, reducing allowance, taking back the keys to the car and, oh, btw, NO BIKING...!

Meeting for the last time since being appointed by Congress in 2002, commission members gave the government "more F's than A's" among the 41 grades measuring progress on security recommendations they issued last year.

"We're frustrated, all of us — frustrated at the lack of urgency in addressing these various problems," said former commission chairman Thomas Kean, a Republican and former New Jersey governor.

Specifically, the panel gave the government an "F" on homeland security spending for cities most at risk, on improving radio communication for emergency agencies and on airline passenger prescreening. They awarded only one A — actually an A-minus — for the administration's efforts to curb terrorist financing.

to say this is a disgrace is a serious understatement... for an administration that manipulated the public with fear into putting them in office for a second term and boasting about their ability to wage the war on terror, how can they look themselves in the mirror in the morning...?

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