<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Mikey:
This is all the Democrats fault? Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe we can blame it on Rush Limbaugh too. Kobe?</font>
YES, it is.
In the hysteria following 9/11, the Liberal Media was screaming for Congress to "Do something about Airport Security".
During the debate on Airport Security, the Republicans wanted stroger Federal Oversight of Private Screeners. The Democrats saw a GOLDEN opportunity to add 100,000 more people to the government payroll, thus making 100,000 more people reliant on the government for their survival.
Tom Daschle would NOT compromise and threatened to hold up any bill that did not include Federal Screeners. The Republicans, fearing the beating they would take in the Liberal Media, caved in.
But, Tom was not done. He also inserted a provision in the bill creating the TSA that forced the TSA to buy inferior bomb detection equipment from a company that employed his wife as a lobbyist.
I hope that the Republicans look at this JOKE of an agency as proof that giving in to Tom Daschle's idiocy is a recipe for disaster.