OK so here's the deal on our Airport Safety or lack of

[Kramer]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120305

Many American airline passengers may be surprised to learn the Transportation Security Administration, the agency responsible with securing all modes of transportation in the country, currently has no leader.

Seems the dispute is over unionizing our airport security

[Xavier_Onassis]

Jim DeMInt  (R SC) believes that HS inspectors have no right to collectively bargain their salaries. He is the cause of the blockage. He is also a first-class asshole.

[Kramer]

Jim DeMInt  (R SC) believes that HS inspectors have no right to collectively bargain their salaries. He is the cause of the blockage. He is also a first-class asshole.

no he's doing his job and obama should stop with payback and put someone forward that is qualified rather than someone that represents the workers. I want people that represent Americans not unions.

[BT]

DeMint is just asking the Dems to honor the terms of the bill they authored and passed.

Prior to the signing of the bill, controversy about its adoption centered on whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency should be incorporated in part or in whole (neither were included). The bill itself was also controversial for the presence of unrelated "riders", as well as for eliminating certain union-friendly civil service and labor protections for department employees. Without these protections, employees could be expeditiously reassigned or dismissed on grounds of security, incompetence or insubordination, and DHS would not be required to notify their union representatives.

The plan stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights.[12] In 2002, Bush officials argued that the September 11 attacks made the proposed elimination of employee protections imperative.[13]

Congress ultimately passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002 without the union-friendly measures, and President Bush signed the bill into law on November 25, 2002. It was the largest U.S. government reorganization in the 50 years since the United States Department of Defense was created.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security

[Kramer]

DeMint is just asking the Dems to honor the terms of the bill they authored and passed.

Prior to the signing of the bill, controversy about its adoption centered on whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency should be incorporated in part or in whole (neither were included). The bill itself was also controversial for the presence of unrelated "riders", as well as for eliminating certain union-friendly civil service and labor protections for department employees. Without these protections, employees could be expeditiously reassigned or dismissed on grounds of security, incompetence or insubordination, and DHS would not be required to notify their union representatives.

The plan stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights.[12] In 2002, Bush officials argued that the September 11 attacks made the proposed elimination of employee protections imperative.[13]

Congress ultimately passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002 without the union-friendly measures, and President Bush signed the bill into law on November 25, 2002. It was the largest U.S. government reorganization in the 50 years since the United States Department of Defense was created.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security

to dems those are just silly little details that don't matter now.

[Plane]

The CIA almost got included?


I am trying to imagine that union on strike.

Disguised spys picketing.

[BSB]

This is going to go on, and on. Round and Round. They, Al Qaeda/terrorists, aren't about to give up anytime soon, and we aren't going to be able hurdle all the obstacles in the way of preventing every attempt in a single bound. We aren't built that way, and that is to their advantage. But, so far, so good.