Posted on 05/10/2007 12:32:05 PM PDT by Calpernia
WASHINGTON -- Senator Charles Schumer says the federal government should scuttle its Department of Homeland Security.
The New York Democrat is particularly incensed by the agency's plan to require passports to drive across the Canadian border. He says he's trying to convince his fellow Democrats in the Senate to dissolve the Homeland Security department into smaller agencies.
But Schumer says he's not sure if there are enough votes to dismantle the agency formed in response to the September Eleventh terrorist attacks.
Speaking to a group of New York business leaders in Washington, the senator called the department a conglomerate that's too large and incompetent.
While Schumer has been one of the agency's most outspoken critics, he also says Congress should be saddled with part of the blame. He says creating the Department of Homeland Security was "one of the worst things" Congress did.
Give Chuckie a sign to wear around his neck that reads “I am an idiot” - it would save time.
Hah...
Bush got a ton of heat for going against this saying we didn’t need more government agencies going the same job.
Time makes all reversals possible....
Hey Chuck, disband the Dept of Education while you’re at it.
People of NY. Go to the tallest buildings still available to you and jump out. The First Responders will have Body Bags available for you.
This should get Chuckie a lot of camera time.
For all the wrong reasons, Schumer actually gets something right.
Wasn’t it his party that insisted on this huge department?
I’m apt to agree after reading about how so many $$$$ million dollar Homeland Security grants have been given to every Barney Fife Mayberry police departments across the country to buy $250,000 armored personnel carriers and equip themselves like paramilitary death squads so they can go out and serve warrants to people smoking a little reefer.
Michael Chertoff created the Patriot Act which encompasses Homeland Security.
Chertoff use to work with Giuliani in NY as a prosecutor.
Or at least, we've got to do something about that sounds-like-it-was-translated-from-German-or-Russian name.
My plan:
Rename Department of Homeland Security the "Department of Defense". Assumes duties of border, immigration, coast guard, etc. You know: defense. Same thing it's supposed to be doing now.
Rename Department of Defense the "Department of War". (Or, if too un-PC, "Department of the Military".) You know, same thing it's doing now.
Idle hopes, I suppose...
Scarily enough. I am in agreement. This bureaucracy is unnecessary and is completely useless.
Yeah, using the patriot act and 9/11 stuff to go after non-terror related stuff is disgusting. But it’s exactly what many of us here were predicting as it was being debated.
With all due respect, I’m pretty certain it was Dem pressure that was the impetus for creating DHS. They wanted another huge government department with union employees.
More “first responders”, so that when the next attack happens, they’ll be out quicker to clean my carcass off the street.
And the Dept. of Energy, HUD, Nat'l Endowment of the Arts, and a dozen other money-sucking, worthless programs and agencies.
I hope and pray that he vanishes in the subway.
“”Department of Defense””
How about in these times we have a “Department of Offense”?
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