I was never very keen on the Department of Homeland Security, and it seems to me that people in the forum were generally uncomfortable with it.
There were at least three problems with it:
1) It set a dangerous precedent for the future, if clinton or someone like him got back into the White House and abused the powers.
2) It was not a real security measure, but simply piled bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy in layer after layer. But underneath that, the CIA and the FBI were still largely broken.
3) Airport security was put under a government union, everone’s pay was doubled, and nobody could be fired for incompetence. We’ve seen what that has gotten us.
Bush did try hard and mean well, and for whatever reason there were no more 9/11s under his watch, for which he surely deserves credit. But the solutions were far from ideal.
I think Bush was a fine lead off hitter for Global Gov’t and control.
If a Dem would have proposed the ideas that he did there would have been calls for impeachment on this Forum.
Bush was part of the plan a it worked perfectly. Patriot Act, TSA, DHS, more Executive Authority, etc.