I’m not going to belabor the point. I’m also not going to give up on it either.
It’s days like today that I remember part of my pride in the GOP is when they focus on “big government does not necessarily equal good government.”
I think I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve linked to Fox News .
But this just makes me so happy I don’t care where it comes from.
Now, I’m going to go watch AC360 on CNN - which is also covering why these invasive backscatter machines and pat downs are pointless invasions of privacy that will not make us any safer. Oh look, it’s Frances Fragos Townsend (the former Homeland Security Advisor to President G.W. Bush) telling Sanjay Gupta they got it wrong and this won’t make us safer.
Lib/Con - Dem/Rep… the TSA is doesn’t care what you believe - they aren’t going to ask you which party you support. I expect more and more politicians to come out against this on both sides (and the middle) of the aisle.
Earlier in the day, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., who is likely to be the next House Transportation Committee chairman, said part of TSA’s problem with the pat-down system is the agency is so large that efforts to implement new rules fall apart.
“They’re now a big personnel agency. They’re trying to manage tens of thousands of people. When they implement things like the pat- down and this new technology, it’s been a disaster. Everybody’s complaining about it. And they never consulted Congress — it wasn’t properly done,” he told Fox News.
Earlier in the day, Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., who is likely to be the next House Transportation Committee chairman, said part of TSA’s problem with the pat-down system is the agency is so large that efforts to implement new rules fall apart.
“They’re now a big personnel agency. They’re trying to manage tens of thousands of people. When they implement things like the pat- down and this new technology, it’s been a disaster. Everybody’s complaining about it. And they never consulted Congress — it wasn’t properly done,” he told Fox News.
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