And every Republican who continues to ignore Bush's incompetence, sweeping it under the rug because they're so embarrassed they voted for the man they feel they have no choice but to knee-jerk defend him rather than admit the truth, YOU are responsible for the mess our country is in. The Republicans control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the White House. The mess we're in is their fault, and the power is in their hands to fix it. At some point, Republicans need to put our national security ahead of politics. Or we should thrown the bums out come November.
Newsweek:
After four and a half years, our intelligence and national-security apparatus still hasn'?t learned how to track terrorists, and the Bush administration has put forward little more than cosmetic reforms.
The legal controversy over the NSA surveillance program has obscured an intelligence issue that is at least as important to the nation'?s future: sheer competence. Do we have any idea what we'?re doing? One reason the NSA is listening in on so many domestic conversations fruitlessly - ?few of the thousands of tips panned out, according to The Washington Post- ?is that the agency barely has a clue as to who, or what, it is supposed to be monitoring....
Vice President Dick Cheney asserted recently that the NSA’s domestic surveillance program has "saved thousands of lives." The only domestic success that administration has publicly linked to the surveillance program is the exposure of a rather comical plan by truck driver Iyman Faris to blowtorch the Brooklyn Bridge (even that claim is questionable).
