GWB with congressional (and popular) approval created the DHS and allowed a backdoor form of domestic spying by the security services. Popular understanding was that it was intended for use against foreign terrorists like the ones that took down the World Trade Center. But very quickly it became a failure because the actual muslim terrorist were still able to shoot up Fort Hood and a Miami nightclub.
So we loaded and cocked “a weapon” (Republicans) then left it lying on the table for unethical Democrats like Barack Obama and Eric Holder to point at conservative citizens like the Tea Party and now Public School Parents. We were pretty stupid — and just to be clear I include myself in that company.
“We were pretty stupid — and just to be clear I include myself in that company.”
I find it difficult to bear in mind just how utterly despicable the forces of evil really are. No matter how I try, I keep thinking and acting as though they were human.