Originally Posted by Powers106

I may not understand the OP's first paragraph correctly, and maybe my memory is faulty, but to blame Bush for the TSA seems misguided. I seem to remember Tom Daschle and the rest of the democrats screaming "you have to federalize to professionalize" and they got their way with federal employees and the TSA, etc. Bush and republicans preferred a private, results-oriented approach but didn't get their way, so now you got the TSA.