Ditto. Seriously jfern, if you want to refute his point - which may very well be valid and to an extent probably is - then provide evidence to the contrary.
Well, if the Dept. of Homeland Security was really short on resources, don't you think that they wouldn't be using their resources to track Texas legislators who were trying to deny quorum to a mid-decade partisan gerrymader?
And anyways, there's how much more money being spent on these Homeland security things now than in the Clinton adminstration? Of course part of that was due to Republicans watering down Clinton's anti-terror bill.
http://www.mikehersh.com/Republicans_sabotaged_Clintons_Anti-Terror_Efforts.shtml