DamSpot’s World

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — Do you feel safer than you did five years ago? Republicans hope the answer is yes and that you’ll give them full credit.

Of course, on a related note, they also hope you’ve developed full-fledged amnesia.

They hope you’ve forgotten all about immigration reform and how the White House and GOP-controlled Congress were going to fix a broken system and seal a porous border — things that make many Americans feel less safe and less secure.

Five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration is still fighting the last war.

We require that air travelers remove their shoes and toss out water bottles before boarding airplanes when what we should worry about isn’t a repeat of something that already happened, but something that hasn’t yet been dreamt up.

It is worse with immigration where Bush — despite having a good grasp of the issue — doesn’t want to fight at all, perhaps since it means firing at members of his own party.

The shame of it is that the president has plenty of weapons in his arsenal. According to the Republican National Committee, Bush has, in the last 15 months, raised $166 million for the coffers of 27 Republican candidates, the national GOP and its state chapters across the country.

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