[Brilliant]

“they are in total agreement that national security should receive the highest budgetary priority.”

No, they aren’t. The Dems just realize they’d lose that battle, so they aren’t going to put up too much of a fight.

[ChinaThreat]

I’d like to remind this dimwit, that a good offense is better than a good defense. Ask the French about the ol’ Maginot Line.

[Iron Munro]

Your Tax Dollars At Work

$700,000 fence was waste of money, Florida agency head says

A grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security paid for it.

Add this to the list of dubious expenditures in the name of national security: a $700,000 fence around the state of Florida Emergency Operations Center.

So says the man whose agency had it built last fall using federal tax dollars.

"I personally did not see the need for that and I would have said I don't see the necessity for that," said Tom Pelham, who became the secretary of the Department of Community Affairs last year.

"Pelham mocked the fence as a source of protection and said it could easily be scaled by someone seeking to do harm. "Anyone who wants to get over that barrier or drive through it could easily do so," Pelham said."

Federal tax dollars paid for this 6-foot fence around the Florida Emergency Operations Center

[Cicero]

Homeland Security is such a total politicized mess, I doubt whether they would spend any money they got wisely. What they could do is fire that jerk Chertoff and put in somebody who didn’t think illegal aliens coming over the border were a Very Good Thing.