Behind the scenes at two remote border crossings

CNN.com is reporting the wackiest story I’ve read in awhile:

“The Department of Homeland Security (had) announced it was spending $31 million to enhance and upgrade two remote border crossings — just 12 miles apart — on the border between Montana and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The spending was lauded by Montana’s two senators, even though only an average of 22 cars a day traveled through these border posts.”

So Drew Griffin and his CNN crew hopped a plane to Billings, Montana and drove six hours to Scobey and Whitetail. “It was a drive punctuated with glimpses of cows and antelopes but few people,” according to Griffin.

Yet, sure enough, Montana’s two Democratic Senators: Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Jon Tester, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, proudly”… took credit for convincing the DHS to give these towns millions for border crossings, bragging in a joint press release that they pressured the agency.”

I’m not making this up. Read it for yourself (link below) and if you’re as pissed as I am that this is happening, contact Janet Napolitano at DHS (http://www.dhs.gov/xutil/contactus.shtm) and demand that she follow through on her promise to investigate. Better yet, demand that the grants be rescinded and reallocated to something that will actually enhance our national security.

This is a democracy: tag, you’re it.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/17/border.security/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn