"Americans are amazed that the White House apparently is not secure. On September 19th a mentally disturbed person hopped a fence and got all the way into the White House without being stopped by Secret Service guards. That is a huge scandal and today the director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson, resigned. That's amazing, since the Obama administration rarely holds people accountable for failure. The only other high-level person we can think of who got fired was VA chief Eric Shinseki after the enormous scandal in his department. This week President Obama blamed intelligence chief James Clapper for the ISIS intel failure. But Mr. Clapper is still on the job. National Security Advisor Susan Rice misled the world about Benghazi and got promoted. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who totally screwed up the roll out of Obamacare, kept her job for eight months before she voluntarily left. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not take the fall for the assassination of Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya. Current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman were both caught up in a scandal, but neither has paid a price. Talking Points has said numerous times that the Obama administration is not governing the country properly. There are problems everywhere, and few of them are being addressed in an effective way. Perhaps the best example is Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation last week. Mr. Holder has never explained the 'Fast and Furious' scandal, and now the federal courts are ordering him to turn over documents he should have released months ago. Yet he kept his job because President Obama likes him. What is forgotten by the media and by the politicians is that public servants are supposed to serve we the people. We need effective problem solvers, not spinners and stone-wallers. Every poll says the same thing: Americans are rapidly losing faith in their government ... and they should."

The Factor pursued the incompetence theme with lifelong Democrat James Carville. "I think the general thrust of what you said has validity," Carville conceded. "The president is reluctant to fire people and hold people accountable in some instances, that is a fair criticism. If he's gotten bad intelligence, it's his guy who is the head of the CIA. He is reluctant to fire people who are caught up in things that don't do very well, but I think the IRS scandal turned out to be not much of anything, and keeping Kathleen Sebelius might have been smart."

A man in Texas, who had entered the USA from West Africa, has been diagnosed with Ebola. Nevertheless, Fox Business host John Stossel ridiculed the idea that the feds should restrict travel from that part of the world. "Ebola is hard to catch," he stated, "and we have far greater risks in life that we should worry about. Ebola touches a nerve, but we should not overreact. It is hard to catch, you really have to share bodily fluids." The Factor vociferously disagreed: "I would not allow West Africans to come into the United States for probably three months. This is an area of the world that is experiencing an epidemic, and we have no compelling interest in admitting these people. Why take the chance?"

The Factor welcomed Congressman Ed Royce, who has been trying to get Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi freed from a prison in Mexico. "I think he will be released shortly," Royce asserted. "I had a conversation with the attorney general of Mexico, who indicated that he has the capacity to release Tahmooressi if it can be proven that he had post-traumatic stress disorder. I sent a report to the attorney general showing that Tahmooressi had been diagnosed with PTSD." The Factor took a shot at the Mexican government, saying, "They like to jab us down in Mexico, they like to give us grief."

President Obama insists that the economy is on the mend and that Americans are better off than they were six years ago. The Factor asked FNC's Molly Line to inject some truth serum into that claim. "There has never been a period this long without a decline in private job growth," Line reported, "and what he's saying is that for the past 54 months there has been an increase in private sector jobs. But the average number of private sector jobs created during the Obama administration is less than in previous recoveries. The deficit is lower than it was in 2009, but the national debt has climbed by more than 6-trillion dollars."

The Factor invited Dennis Miller to weigh in on the intruder who jumped the White House fence and actually entered the building. "Thank God Biden left his Lincoln Logs out in the main hallway and the guy tripped over them," the D-Man quipped, "or it would have been dangerous. I know the president doesn't like borders, but this is getting a little silly. He feels invincible because he's got Biden in the two-slot and he feels like nobody will take a run at him, but when a guy makes it into the headquarters and starts spooning the president we have to tighten it up a little." Miller outlined just how he would tighten things up. "The president should come out tomorrow and say here's the new rule - if you set one foot over the fence they will vaporize your skull with a high-powered rifle."

Rosie O'Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg, co-hosts on The View, engaged in a nasty off-camera disagreement this week. FNC's Martha MacCallum elaborated on the star-studded dispute. "During a commercial break they got into it," she reported. "Rosie had stepped on Whoopi a little bit at the end of a segment, Rosie didn't like that, they went back and forth calling each other names, and there were some four-letter words flying around." MacCallum also scrutinized two New York college professors who are blaming 'global warming' for the rise of ISIS. "There was an extreme drought in Syria that caused extreme poverty from 2006 to 2010, but we all know there are different geographic elements involved. The professors say that even the plastic bags at the grocery store and your water bottles have an impact on geopolitical situations." The Factor concluded, "This sounds like a Miller Time segment."

Frank Rivas, Fort Lauderdale, FL: "As a former special ops pilot, I agree with Kirsten Powers that you don't know what's going on behind the scenes with Pakistan, Bill. You don't know."

Alan Mazur, Hershey, PA: "Bill, you are right about Pakistan and other Muslim nations that support the jihad. With that doctor in prison, who in their right mind would cooperate with America?"

Mike Mock, Americus, GA: "The downfall of the Secret Service began when it was moved from the Treasury Department to the politically correct Department of Homeland Security."

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