Originally Posted by bocastephen
If a Democratic Congress is elected, you can be sure things will not only get worse procedure wise, they will get more expensive as the Democrats say "hey, it's for your protection so pay up". Higher ticket/screening taxes and probably an extra user tax assessed against the airlines regardless of their financial condition.
I suspect you're right
bocastephen - but one of the reasons would also be a desire to "seem" stronger on terror, and JoeBagODonuts seems very comfortable with the idea of Kabuki Security. On ABC's Roundtable this Sunday, I saw Cokie make the comment that 85% of Americans favor the H2O ban!
This is what we get when we have a new bureacracy.
What Reagan would have done would have met with mass hysteria at first (recall the concept of disbanding HEW and Dept of Ed) - but it may well have ended this idiocy on the part of a govt department that lives only to serve its own "lifespan".
Best, Dave