According to the 9/11 Commission, the Bush Administration and Republican Congress are racking up big fat "F"s all over the place for their defense of America's "homeland." According to Salon Magazine's "War Room" (appropriately named):
In a report released today, the 10 members of the commission say the federal government deserves "more F's than A's" for its responses to the 9/11 Commission's recommendations so far. "People are not paying attention," Thomas Kean, the Republican who served as the commission's chairman, said over the weekend. "God help us if we have another attack."[...]
As the Associated Press reports, the commissioners are giving the government a grade of "F" on efforts to focus homeland security money on cities most at risk, on improving radio communications for emergency workers and on prescreening airline passengers.
In announcing the grades today, Kean said that the 9/11 commission and "every responsible expert that we have talked to" believe that terrorists will attempt to strike the United States again. "If they do, and these reforms that might have prevented such an attack have not been implemented, what will our excuses be?" he asked.
Now, remind me again: which party is the one that's supposedly "strong" on national security issues, and which one is in reality pitifully weak? That's right, the correct answer is....the Republican Party, you win! (actually, we all lose)