Originally Posted by RoyalFlush
Ok, I'll bite. So its all Daschle's and Gephardt's fault? I thought the TSA was
created in 2001 by a Republican Controlled congress and a Republican President? (the same regime that trumps 9/11 all day long and uses it as an excuse for everything)
Could you please provide sources to back up the statement "the only reason the TSA exists today" are these two?
Preferably credible ones. I'd be interested to learn these two are alone responsible for the TSA.
Agreed. It really has nothing to do with who's in Congress or in the Oval Office. It was a collective effort to take whatever steps were deemed necessary to improve airport security in the wake of 9/11. This was a true bipartisan effort. And now that much has settled since 9/11, no one is going to touch this even if the Democrats have the majority in both houses.
As I've posted in other threads, the only thing that a Democrat-led Congress may do is have TSA conduct cargo screening that is more effective than the trusted shipper policy, and again, that's something that both parties agree on. The difference is that the funding required for that effort is probably going to come from funding that would have gone towards the war in Iraq. Republicans won't touch it; Democrats will do so in order to pressure the White House into withdrawing troops. It's more about political leverage than it is about actually improving airport security. And that is the dirty nature of politics.