DHS: Bushite Networking joint for private contractors

There is a pattern I have notices with the Bushites: The creation of the Department of Homeland Security fits the pattern to a 'T.'

Remember how the Bushites resisted the creation of Homeland Security. Oh, no, they wanted no part of it.

Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, Chimpy changed his mind. Yes, there would be a Department of Homeland Security.

The Rethugs figured out how they could use this Department to steal more money from the treasury and give it to their friends in the blooming security industry.

This department has been a joke from day one. Unfortunately, it is a joke on all of us.

donkey o.d.: The Road From K Street to Yusufiya By FRANK RICH:

"AS the remains of two slaughtered American soldiers, Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, were discovered near Yusufiya, Iraq, on Tuesday, a former White House official named David Safavian was convicted in Washington on four charges of lying and obstruction of justice. The three men had something in common: all had enlisted in government service in a time of war. The similarities end there. The difference between Mr. Safavian's kind of public service and that of the soldiers says everything about the disconnect between the government that has sabotaged this war and the brave men and women who have volunteered in good faith to fight it.

Privates Tucker and Menchaca made the ultimate sacrifice. Their bodies were so mutilated that they could be identified only by DNA. Mr. Safavian, by contrast, can be readily identified by smell. His idea of wartime sacrifice overseas was to chew over government business with the Jack Abramoff gang while on a golfing junket in Scotland. But what's most indicative of Mr. Safavian's public service is not his felonies in the Abramoff-Tom DeLay axis of scandal, but his legal activities before his arrest. In his DNA you get a snapshot of the governmental philosophy that has guided the war effort both in Iraq and at home (that would be the Department of Homeland Security) and doomed it to failure. "