TWEET JEB!: Your brother didn't protect us on 9/11

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18. What did George W. Bush ever keep us safe from? Sharknados?

Certainly not terrorism. The largest terrorist attack in American history happened more than seven months into his first term. Prior to that, he never took any action against terrorism, never attended any meetings on terrorism, never had any of his senior aides attend meetings on terrorism, and he never made any "get-tough-on-terrorism" speeches until the evening of September 11th, when circumstances forced him to. I will admit that I don't know if he could have done anything that would have prevented the 9/11 attacks. But I do know he didn't even try.

He certainly didn't keep us safe when he invaded the wrong country for the wrong reasons and got more Americans killed than died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

He certainly didn't keep us safe when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and he stayed on vacation, made no presidential plea for people to evacuate, didn't put everybody he could on alert, and his incompetent staff didn't get drinkable water to people struggling to survive in 90 degree heat in New Orleans for four days.

He certainly didn't keep us safe when allowing big banks to regulate themselves and it led to thousands losing their homes, nearly ruined the financial system of the whole wide world, and plunged us into the worst recession since The Great Depression.

But we didn't have any Sharknados until 2013. So . . . heckuva job, Bushie.