Left In Lowell

You and I know what the average American does not: the Republican Congress and White House has been consistantly suckage on protecting the homeland. Rhetoric does not a good policy make.

So via AMERICAblog, here are a couple of examples of recent weak-on-security Republican moves that Democrats need to publicize in the next election…

First, the Republican-controlled House (which as John mentions, has no minority rights for the Dems, unlike the Senate) killed an air marshal training plan that was aimed at responding to terror alerts:

From AP:

Efforts to train thousands of federal agents to protect commercial flights during heightened terror alerts were quietly abandoned more than a year ago because Congress objected to the cost, government investigators said Tuesday.

Then, John asks, “Why is the Transportation Security Agency facing a “tight budget”?“:

I read this in today’s Washington Post in an article explaining why they’re allowing scissors and other pointy objects back on airplanes:

Faced with a tighter budget and morale problems among its workforce, the TSA says its new policy changes are aimed at making the best use of limited resources.

Limited resources? We’re talking about an agency whose job it is to stop your mom’s airplane from blowing up. What limited resources and tight budget problems are they facing? Who in the GOP-controlled congress isn’t giving this vital agency the money they need?

Funny, but when Bush needs $300 billion to fight a war that’s a lie and a quagmire, we find the money in a snap. But when we need the money to stop our commerical airliners from blowing up, suddenly the budget is tight.

Nuts. We can spend billions a month on war, but not on protecting our own people.