Well, the current brouhaha over the bizarre mis-appropriation of Homeland [In]security funding, which replaced last week's brouhaha over the Dick and the Bush's invasion of Congress, seems quite easily explained. The only security that Michael Chertoff and The Bush are concerned about is the security of Republican control of Congress. And they are willing-with the collaboration of their Roving hitman-to buy the necessary votes with Homeland Insecurity funds.
Here's what the New York Daily News reports:
"He [Chertoff] insisted that pressure from GOP leaders and the entire New York delegation won't sway him to restore $80 million cut from the high-threat urban area security grants awarded to the city this year.
"'I'd be a pretty bad secretary if I said, 'Wow, I got attacked, I'm going to change the grants formula,'" Chertoff said after huddling with President Bush and White House political adviser Karl Rove."
Why, you might ask, would the head of the Homeland [In]security Dept. find it necessary to meet with the "White House political adviser," unless it was a political decision? Well, the answer seems obvious to this writer. Since, essentially, the only concern these people have is "how do we get enough votes to keep ourselves and our friends in power?", they're not going to find those votes either in New York or in the other big loser in the Homeland [In]security lottery Washington DC. So it's not surprising that they would try to buy votes in the so-called "Red" states, which may not be as "red" any longer.
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