no matter the party the next administration is a stupid as the last one!!!

if that is not so, please tell me, which one was any different from the one before it????

(the last 32 years only, please!)

Paul, Did you by chance vote for Obama?

Personally, I am not surprised at the fact that the flight school was actually owned and run by an Illegal Alien or that there were illegals taking flight lessons because those teaching them have no allegiance to this country. It seems that from it's inception Homeland Security has made just about every mistake possible. I also believe that they have done their share of protecting our Country. Unfortunately, even with over 200k employees at their disposal they can't manage to enforce the law. Perhaps if they streamlined the DHS and gave them authority to follow the law this enterprize would have been closed before they were able to train illegal immigrants to fly.

I am surprised that Napolitano would lie or even worse not know what her organization was doing or not doing. I have often wondered why she treats her post as some sort of honorary title and well her testimony solidified my thoughts.

When Romney gets into office I certainly hope that he would place someone in charge of DHS who has some sort of background and working credential in security. Perhaps he can choose from the bank of retired military high ranking officials. It would actually be nice to see some leadership that wasn't a walking joke. It seems that we are in need of someone who can reorganize and prioritize and use their budget to hire effective employees who are capable of independent though and reason. I think it would be reasonable to consider priority recruitment from our returning soldiers who need to come home to a job.

DHS was started under Bush. It has been acting that way - not very efficiently and with laws that are at best make the system a laughing stock. Repubs and teabaggers only like to blame democrats while ignoring what happened when Republicans were in charge? How many jobs have been created by congress since 2010 when Re-baggers took the charge? In Texas after more than 20 years of Republican mismanagement, education at grade level schools is at risk, guns are being smuggled across border for drug traffickers and health insurance for children (CHIPS) is in shambles?? So you think, country will be better under a Repub President? DREAM on boys.

nono7yx

Yes DHS started under Bush and for the past three years operated under Obama. As I recall Obama offered up many slants against Bush during his run for office. Remember how silly it was that he acted like Bush was his opponent instead of McCain. It certainly worked as a campaign strategy but really offered no glimpse as to how inadequate a President he would make for the United States. You know "Hope, Change and Transparency" translated as record high unemployment, a roller coaster of a financial market, pay to play strategy for spending American dollars to his favorite supporters and well a mess of 90% of the legislation that was passed by his colleagues in Congress that he either irresponsibly or naively signed.

So here is the thing with regard to DHS...Obama was tasked to appoint someone to the post who would actually introduce meaningful change and corrections to the DHS. I don't think anyone on either side of the aisle was particularly happy with the structure of the Department as it was in 2008. He needed to appoint someone who could organize and streamline the DHS so that American would get the most for the tax dollars with a dedication to protecting Americans here in the United States. By all accounts Napolitano should have been up for the task given her experience and should have been able to reign in problems and make reasonable policy throughout the DHS. She stepped into the post with an amazing resume. Unfortunately, she did nothing to streamline the DHS nor does she appear to have taken any authoritative stance to guide her employees. There have been some pretty egregious mistakes made on her watch and she seems unapologetic for her poor performance in a crisis. It is as if she only works when a crisis hits and then she works very hard to seem busy and on task. In retrospect is clear that she was not a good pick for the position and rather than the President doing his job and finding a replacement he allows her to wallow in failure, that does affect the American people. Now if we wish to give her the benefit of the doubt that she is a competent leader then we must believe that she is not being give sound support from her boss. So as the DHS sits today the buck stops with Obama.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the federal government has closed a gap and does review the backgrounds of foreign students who seek to take pilot training at U.S. flight schools.

Wow, Napolitano and the DHS crew is really on top of things. It took this LONG to "close a gap" of checking the backgrounds of foreign students seeking pilot training ?

Go back to sleep Napolitano. Better yet, RESIGN.

PAUL in chicago-1569139......

Don't forget about DHS's $ 30,000,000,000 Boeing Virtual Fence FAILURE:

• http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/boeing-virtual-fence-30-billion-failure/362

mono7...

In Texas after more than 20 years of Republican mismanagement, education at grade level schools is at risk, guns are being smuggled across border for drug traffickers and health insurance for children (CHIPS) is in shambles?? So you think, country will be better under a Repub President? DREAM on boys.

There are districts in our state the are head and shoulders above many others in the Nation we happen to live in one. Many of our Metro schools and border schools, where we attempt to educate children whos parents sneak into the country, struggle to support the burden of children who's parents don't participate in the whole "tax" system. That is just a fact please refer to the various benchmarks and you will find many fine Texas districts and Schools. Where you find failing schools you will also find illegal immigrant communities and often drug infested communities where the children may care but the parents have lost all hope, are in prison or sell drugs for a living. Sadly, it is very difficult for children to excel in those environments. We need a better way to help those children who truly want an education but are held back by the circumstance of their own homes.

As for guns going across the border..I do believe Holder and other in this administration are holding the maps on these routes and well they aren't talking. So guns will continue to walk into the hands of the cartels. This administration has certainly made some unsavory friends, even Hugo in Venezuela likes Obama.

The SChip program...so what is your suggestion when parents will not complete the necessary paperwork to enroll their children in the program? The money is there but parents of the children in need are not completing and returning the forms that are printed in English and Spanish and is also offered in other languages upon request or if a particular school knows the language needs of a family. There are several reasons that parents don't bother to insure their children...Some do not apply because they have insurance through work but don't wish to pay for their children to be covered. Some do not apply because it is pretty easy to take them to an ER lie about their address and skip the bill. Some do not apply because the income they claim on their taxes is much less than the cash business they actually do so it could open them up to a fraud conviction. Even children of illegal immigrants can be enrolled but then again there is the whole fraud thing and cash work. Then there are those who do apply with an intent to defraud the system. They would be those parents who deal in drugs, prostitution and human trafficking. They actually do take advantage of the system. So where the S-CHIP program is one of good intention and it should support the medical need of children in low income homes it is not an effective program. The state has even tried to tie it to free and reduced breakfast and lunch without success. Those who need it are barred by their parents or guardians and many who's parents or guardians could pay cheat the system. There are children who are served by the program because it exists and because their parents are trying very hard to care for their families and become self-sufficient using programs that will offer them a path to a better life. At some point for Government and support programs to work people have to actually step up to help themselves.

Yes our country will certainly be better off with a different President. I am just shocked that Hillery didn't throw her hat into the ring because I think she would have given Romney a run for his money and well the DNC would be much better off. But they stayed with the lame horse so yes a Republican it should be.

Of course it is, and rightfully so. How many Swedish grandmothers have become suicide bombers? And how many Arab students? And aren't doctors racially profiling when they test my black neighbor for sickle cell anemia but don't test me? I rest my case.

I was being sarcastic. This will piss off Obama and Eric Holder.

Hey Pete - you should know that Repubs love Arabs. Why? OIL simple answer. The Bush clan and Cheney clan made it easy for Arabs to come to this country with out much vetting or checks because King Abdallah said so. Saudis have been funneling money in the name of religion to many Madarsas in USA where the future Taliban and Al-Qaida are being groomed to work as sleeper cells and when right time comes to rise to wage JIHAD. Even some of the Mosques do the same thing - brainwash adults like army major Nidal who shot 13 folks at Fort Hood army base. This guy started when Repubs were in charge of all vetting and security. So who are you going to blame?

I figured they had been doing this since 9/11, but they just started a couple of years ago!! Who's side is this "Government" of ours on anyway??

FINISH GRADE SCHOOL bfore you vote there Hawk-eyes...!

You'll need to learn the difference between HADES & Haities (whatever THAT is)

ALSO...

TRY to learn that there are 3 kinds of 2

TO, TOO, & TWO...

people with a 3rd grade diploma or better have a hard time reading written work when the author has no clue about the different spelling and MEANINGS of particular words .

Of course if you are a recent Immigrant we all understand

and we'll give you a pass if you admit you are living in the MALT... Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Texas

the rest of the country has come to have lowered expectations from people in those places....

Steve-177, what about the middle easterners that trained at a flight school at Meacham Field in Fort Worth, Texas? It was in either the 80's or 90's, I've forgotten which but it was written about and published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I thought at the time that it was a dangerous thing to do, given the unrest in the middle-east.