Michael Chertoff Trips Up His President Again
May 10, 2006
The very name “Homeland Security” doesn't work for me, sounds like a cut-rate burglar alarm system at Wal-Mart. Russians and Eastern Europeans refer to their countries as homelands, but it doesn't roll off the tongue for an American.
John Wayne was hell on ‘homesteaders,’ but I never heard him raise a posse to protect some school marm’s ‘homeland.’ It’s just not in the national lexicon.
Maybe I’m being picky. September 11th changed a whole lot of things. It's possible we’re suddenly a ‘homeland’ and we need Michael Chertoff out there playing Duke Wayne and fighting the Mexicans. Mike certainly hasn’t had much luck with terrorists, other than annoying us all by making us take off our shoes in airports. Tidying up after hurricanes isn’t his strong suit either.
The man doesn't look like he could handle a Winchester '76, but he struck several blows for our national security in the past month that will certainly make me sleep better.
First off, he arrested over a thousand evil-doer…