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Old Feb 26, 2008 | 10:24 pm
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PatrickHenry1775
 
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Originally Posted by birdstrike
That is an outdated answer. The same thing could be said about Communism, yet McCarthy was eventually taken down.

someday soon the upside of doing something will outweigh the minimal benefit of doing nothing.

I'll bet on Texas.
You are partially correct. Representative Ron Paul of Texas in his weekly column Texas Straight Talk criticized TSA generally and specifically the gropefest that started around Thanksgiving 2004. Here is a link to that column -http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2004/tst112904.htm

However, as far as a I know he did not follow up that column with any legislative action to defund TSA or even a resolution condemning the gropefest. It will take a brave member of Congress, risking the charge of soft on terrorism, to suggest abolishing TSA.
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