Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Let King be king.
Rep. Steve King is on the House floor right now, telling us how to protect the border cheaply and effectively. He's drawing a casual blueprint of a wall that can be built for about $500K per mile. Compare this to the $3 million per mile PER YEAR that we are now paying for generally ineffective patrols. (He knows exactly how to build a wall because he ran a construction business, doing levees and walls and such, before coming to Congress.)
After building the wall, King wants to divide the border into sections, and ask competent companies to bid on overall protection for each section. Let the companies decide how they want to manage their section: fancy electronics, lots of manpower, whatever they think will work. Let the border patrol be the Quality Control Inspectors, and dock the security companies by the number of known penetrations of their sector.
I'd like to put a Parliamentary Question: Will the Honorable Mr President now explain why he does not abdicate and appoint Mr King in his place?
Or more realistically, appoint Mr King to head Homeland Security, but only if he gets the authority and power to do the job. ¶ 3:32 PM
After building the wall, King wants to divide the border into sections, and ask competent companies to bid on overall protection for each section. Let the companies decide how they want to manage their section: fancy electronics, lots of manpower, whatever they think will work. Let the border patrol be the Quality Control Inspectors, and dock the security companies by the number of known penetrations of their sector.
I'd like to put a Parliamentary Question: Will the Honorable Mr President now explain why he does not abdicate and appoint Mr King in his place?
Or more realistically, appoint Mr King to head Homeland Security, but only if he gets the authority and power to do the job. ¶ 3:32 PM
