I'm watching the members 9-11 commission come together to grade the government, legislative and executive branches on the follow up to their report. Their commission issued it's report a few months ago and so they are not officially empaneled. What they are doing is saying - wake up

"The fundamental purpose of the government is to protect people. to keep the peace to keep us safe from harm. within and from without our nation if we dont have that we are a disorganized savage society and there's no rationale for anything govt does."- James Thompson 9-1 commission member (R)

They are giving the govt Fs and Ds on the follow through with their recomendations. I find it crazy that we haven't moved very far on this when we have been coming up with ways to okay torture and to buid bridges to nowhere and debating terry schaivo. what is going on