So what precisely did we learn from 9/11 and $400B in spending?

Now that Rove and Barlett are working on their latest smear campaign (but didn't they say no politics now?) and the entire team is telling us that "now is not the time for criticism" maybe someone in the media can demand answers for what have we learned for emergency planning since 9/11? Give us some concrete examples of how we are better prepared today and show us how those $400 Billion have had an impact on making us safer. Specific examples, please.

We're not the only people who recognize the failures of this administration. We keep hearing from these people that federal government money is not theirs but taxpayers' money, so OK, let's hear how it has been spent and what the results have been. After 9/11 we always heard that nothing like this could have been imagined, but we now know that they all lied and yes, they could have and did imagine it. They then created the Department of Homeland Security which was supposed to protect Americans from disasters, natural and otherwise.

When Chertoff tells the media that this was beyond anything we have ever had it makes me wonder just what the hell his department is planning for. A few kids lighting bottlerockets? A truck carrying Nutrasweet that turned over on a highway? A heavy mist that leaves a city really, really damp? Didn't we already hear after 9/11 that our internal organizations lacked the vision to plan for the un-imaginable? How can anyone in the world have any faith in this team of jokers? For starters, it's time for Brownie to get back on his horse and ride out of town. But that's just for starters.

We sure have come a long way from Truman and "the buck stops here."