"Keep the government small!" shout the same people that demand we seal our borders. Ask the Coast Guard how difficult it is to locate anyone in the 10,000 or so islands off of our Florida coast alone.
Bush will not use EOs to force laws. How can anyone blame the Bush administration for 9-11, or expect Bush to turn around the monster that is this government overnight? Critics and "experts" ignore the other two branches of the "balanced" government along with the press, lawyers, the NGOs, former Presidents still meddling in international affairs, and the history, size and determination of our enemies.
If Americans blame the President for the next terrorist attack, we will have a national scandal far greater than the leftist-led, pro-Communist "peacenik" protests of the 60s. We'd have a lost citizenry too selfish for common sense, too lazy to rouse themselves until the enemy's at the door, too ignorant to understand the difference between right and wrong...maybe we already do.
And who is doing anything about it? Not the Bush Administration.
George W. Bush is in a position to put a permanent end to Al-Queada. He is in a position to tell Amnesty International, the ACLU and the UN what they can do with themselves (and while that may not look good to the world scene, it would make people here feel less on edge and guarantee him a second term).
He has done neither.
If anything, he has acted more like his father, listening to the same people from a decade ago, telling him it was perfectly okay to declare a touchdown at the 5-yard line instead of taking it past the goal line.
You may feel good about that, but I certainly do not.