Feeling secure yet?

What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

During the Dubai port scandal, Marilyn Musgrave saw the wind blowing, and was all kinds of shocked about port security in this country.

The American people will not tolerate this. It's foolish to even think of this.

So she's been leaving it up to the Bush people to come up with ways to keep us safe; they've screwed it up while Congress has done nothing and never demanded accountability, and we're supposed to applaud when Marilyn takes off the knee pads for ten minutes?

If Musgrave and the rest of Congress are just figuring out this stuff now, seems like we need some new leadership in Congress, don't you think? So much for "priorities."

And has Marilyn really learned any lessons about port security? Angie Paccione doesn't think so:

Musgrave claimed in a Ft. Collins Coloradoan editorial this month that she consistently supports additional funding and domestic control of our seaports. Only ten days later, she voted against providing $825 million to improve port safety.

"What in the world is Musgrave doing in Washington?" asked Angie Paccione, who is running against Musgrave in the 4th Congressional District of Colorado. "Musgrave’s vote against making our ports safer shows just how radically out of touch she is with the priorities of ordinary Americans."

Why did Marilyn Musgrave and right wing extremists vote to kill the Sabo Amendment? From Kevin Drum:

We have been told by conservative hawks that Iran is actively building a nuclear weapon and that we should do everything we can to stop this, up to and including a military assault on suspected nuclear sites. Since Iran is incapable of delivering a nuclear weapon 7,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, the primary doomsday scenario they've offered up is that Iran (or a terrorist group working with Iran) will ship a completed nuke through an American port and then threaten to detonate it in a large city.

There you have it, people: Republican homeland security.