Legal Commentary

"Objectively Pro-Terrorist": GOP Blocked Appointment of TSA Head

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Jonathan Singer, Politico reports:

South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has a hold on the appointment of a TSA chief, over his concern that the new administration could allow security screeners to unionize. Republicans have cast votes against the key TSA funding measure that the 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security contained, which included funding for the TSA, including for explosives detection systems and other aviation security measures. In the June 24 vote in the House, leading Republicans including John Boehner, Pete Hoekstra, Mike Pence and Paul Ryan voted against the bill [. . .]

Objectively pro-terrorist. (This is snark from me. When Republicans, Joe Lieberman and the Washington Post Editorial Page Editor said it about Democrats, they were not joking. They were doing their best Joe McCarthy imitations.)

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).