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BaronChocula

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12. republicans are an organizational mess

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 07:20 PM

Feb 13

W inherited a FEMA that had received high grades and then weakened it in a panicky merger of agencies in the name of better coordination. And then came Hurricane Katrina. Michael Brown, a former commissioner of a Arabian horse registry association (who resigned following a slew of ethics scandals - yeah, horses) had been named the head of FEMA. Brown was scapegoated for the failed response While his boss, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff avoided the same fate.Brown was assumed to be incompetent and he probably was, but we never got to see the depth of his incompetence because Chertoff gave him no independence or tools with which to do his job.

All that talk about coordinating responses blew up in republican faces with their first test big test post-9/11.

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From its inception, DHS was a corruption of fundamental American values. [View all] pat_k Feb 13 OP

I recall when it was created & there were many who opposed it. SheltieLover Feb 13 #1

Including moi! Mme. Defarge Feb 13 #2

Me too... SheltieLover Feb 13 #4

If I remember correctly, the wet dream was actually pnac's. We knew they niyad Feb 13 #20

Yes. SheltieLover Feb 13 #22

Way back when I saved a report on PNAC pat_k Feb 13 #28

Would you consider posting this as its own OP, for wider niyad Feb 13 #32

I was one MustLoveBeagles Feb 13 #14

Me too, Beagles! SheltieLover Feb 13 #15

Yep TimeToGo Feb 13 #16

I was suspicious right from the start when they used the term "Homeland". llmart Feb 13 #17

Same here. SheltieLover Feb 13 #23

My elderly father, who was raised as a farm Republican, was absolutely INCENSED by Jack Valentino Feb 13 #35

Your dad sounds like a great patriot! SheltieLover Feb 13 #36

I forgot to say my 'late' father.... he died in 2020, at the age of 91... Jack Valentino Feb 13 #38

So sorry for your loss. SheltieLover Saturday #40

I particularly miss him when working on my garden, which is something we did together Jack Valentino Saturday #41

The fear of immigrants coming here goes hand-in-hand with racism FakeNoose Feb 13 #3

I Wholly Agree - It Was a Corrupt Idea and Violation of the American Credo from the Get-go The Roux Comes First Feb 13 #5

Absolutely! (does not excuse the current further corruption) pat_k Feb 13 #26

I always hated that name Homeland MacKasey Feb 13 #6

When I first heard homeland under the Bush administration, Sanity Claws Feb 13 #7

I think when we redeem our national soul 1WorldHope Feb 13 #8

Now, that's an idea! pat_k Feb 13 #33

Whose time has come! 🙂 1WorldHope Feb 13 #37

Nazis favored the word ''heimat'' dalton99a Feb 13 #9

We are a Nation, not some ethnic Homeland. pat_k Feb 13 #30

So say we all. BidenRocks Feb 13 #10

Yes, the entire reorganization that led to DHS (and that un-American name) needs to be undone. JHB Feb 13 #11

republicans are an organizational mess BaronChocula Feb 13 #12

Using the word "homeland" has always given me the willies. It's creepy. paleotn Feb 13 #13

I have no doubt that it was intended. pat_k Feb 13 #34

INDEED! For anybody 'white', this is NOT their 'homeland'! Jack Valentino Feb 13 #39

Bush legacy malaise Feb 13 #18

It was a harmful idea from the start dlk Feb 13 #19

A Lot of Us Deep State Witch Feb 13 #21

end this travesty. quakerboy Feb 13 #24

I remember in the GW Bush days when the government formed DHS and they began infringing phylny Feb 13 #25

Ugh is right. pat_k Saturday #43

Referring to the country as "Homeland" should have set off klaxon horns during W's administration Tim S Feb 13 #27

For many it did -- but tragically not enough. pat_k Feb 13 #31

DURec leftstreet Feb 13 #29

DHS is some nazi bullshit. Always has been. Iggo Saturday #42