Let's be honest. Most Congressfolk and Senators (other than because of their own air travel) don't give a flying F**k about the "flying public" and the modest percentage of even that minority who find the TSA inconvenient/unjustifiable.

It's the voters at home who sit at the kill switch for Congressional careers, not the "flying public" or the even far smaller group that fly with any frequency.

All it takes to insure a majority of 435 Congressional votes for the TSA is one more replay of the video from 9/11 on the national TV networks. The TSA is one of those inevitable by-products of an iconic event. For a comparison, it took newsreel images of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bomb detonations and the scenes from the deck of MISSOURI to erase from Americans' eyes and psyche those clumsy film recreations of Pearl Harbor. Short of ObL and numerous henchmen strung up in some public square, a la Benito and Clara in Milan, the TSA may be with us always.

The big clue....How many Congress members or Senators are on record, on paper or tape, calling for the dismantling or even major changes to the TSA? Count'em!