I am shocked that the first time I get to check flyer talk in a week, and no one is talking about Mineta's comment today.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/663744.asp?pne=11947

Mineta now admits that it is impossible to actually meet the deadlines in congress's new air legislation. Just as many of the people have posted, people have cried out for something to be done and as the T-shirts always say "all I got was this stupid shirt"

I hope the media, politicians and the public take a breath. Unlikely I know. Some of the first responses. If they can't get the equipment made in time have troops open and search your checked bags. I guess they must think that the couple of hour waits that many people are now experiencing are too short. Lets add more hoops. Maybe when it is quicker to drive cross country than fly we will rethink our actions.

The funny thing is he goes later on to say that the goal is 10 minutes to get everyone through checkpoints. He says "no weapons no wait", I think that the next announcement will be that we need to show up in medical gowns with no checked or carryon luggage. I realize that I am being sarcastic. It just makes me mad, either Mineta is a total moron or an idiot. If he had anyone briefing him, he had to know and could have spoken up while speaking before congress on the proposed law instead of saying how stupid and ineffective the airline security companies were. The other option is that he acted as any bureaucrat would. Expand your authority/position and then start working on your excuses. Niether answer really makes me very comfortable with what is ahead.

Again to paraphrase Rodney King, can't we all just think about our actions!!!!!! before we make things even worse.

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Robert