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12-31-2009, 05:43 PM
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...ctions_opinion
as for obama's nom to head the tsa being 'held up' for months, he only named him in september-eight months after taking office. regardless, it's obviously not the democrats at fault.  
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12-31-2009, 06:05 PM
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Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year.
It took the Obama administration more than eight months to nominate anyone to lead the Transportation Security Administration and the Customs and Border Protection agency. The attempted Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner has prompted a review of U.S. security policies. The acting heads of those agencies – both created in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – will be at the forefront of these discussions. Bogged down with health care reform, the Senate has yet to set a date to hold hearings for the Customs position. And Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has placed a hold on the president's choice to head the TSA over the senator's concern that the new leader would let TSA screeners join a labor union. This has some Democrats blaming politics for the vacancy. as for demint placing a hold on the tsa nom-if customs couldn't get a hearing, why would tsa? why is politics at fault, but not the eight month wait to even name a head?
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01-01-2010, 04:51 PM
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But DeMint blocking this appointment since last September, approved by everybody else involved, for an additional four months for political reasons is beyond absurd. Especially considering what happened beginning of December - the TSA accidentally released their security procedures on the internet. Geeshus, who is in charge here? That is the temporary head left over from the last administration. The TSA policies are from the last administration, too - and those have ongoing problems. To quote Chuck's fav, the WSJ this week: "Emerging as a central focus are deficiencies in the U.S.'s network of watch lists, a system designed after the Sept. 11 attacks to keep tabs on potential terrorists and prevent them from boarding planes, according to a senior U.S. counterterrorism official. The official noted that government audits turned up problems in recent years, including gaps that kept suspected terrorists from being added to the U.S.'s no-fly list." Blaming this latest incident on "the Democrats and Obama" doesn't stand up in the least. As I said, there appears to be plenty of intra- and inter- agency problems. Another thing left over from the last seven years Obama will have to try and fix.
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01-01-2010, 05:07 PM
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Yeah, you're the poster child for intelligent and good "conservative values". Maybe as expressed by Joe Wilson. "Conservative values" ... like believing the President is a Kenyan Communist Muslim Socialist un-American anti-christ without a birth certificate?  Yeah, I want no part of being associated with that, thanks. The GOP right now, for the past three years, is nothing like the GOP of the past 40. They are a completely disorganized embarassment of a train wreck. Bush and Cheney, et. al, leaving 1.2 trillion in debt, two wars, a recession, bank bailouts, torture, lies about WMD, etc. tore the integrity and reputation of the Republican brand so completely that last November the GOP had to sell itself out to the complete whack jobs on the far, far right in an attempt to garner some, any, votes in the last election. And in doing so, they lost about 1/4 to 1/3 of we more moderate GOP to the other side in that voting booth. The GOP as it sits today: voting 100% no on everything, obstructionist, anti-everything, lying (Mitch McConnell, you've really turned out to be something, and it ain't good) - currently isn't even espousing what are traditional, admired, historical Republican values. Ronald Reagan would turn over in his grave to see what the GOP is today. Hopefully the crazy far, far right will break off and continue their third party pretensions, so the GOP has some faint hope of recapture of respect, and resurgence in the next 10 years.
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01-01-2010, 08:34 PM
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........................... oh its worse..still have two wars..hes lied time and time again..he sent troops to war..lie..bank bailouts..lie..oh thats right we never torture our enemys now..how ****ing stupid are you to believe all this bs ..
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01-01-2010, 08:50 PM
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that otta' piss off a few Nascars
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01-01-2010, 09:26 PM
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