It is easy to portray oneself as a champion of civil liberties during time of war when one knows that while pontificating the high road his safety is still guaranteed since the adults in power will not listen to juvenile cliches and will continue doing the sensible things that must be done to protect Americans.
Bullseye. The only thing is that its hard to credit the Republicans with doing a good job on Homeland Security when our Southern Border is out of control. Sometimes I think its just dumb luck that we haven't been hit post 911.
We were hit after 9-11. We had a domestic anthrax attack.
Now either the attacker is dead. Captured. Ran out of anthrax. Or fearful of being caught.