Obama’s TSA Nominee Channels Napolitano

Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats were busy giving special favors to their union and trial lawyer backers under the guise of a stimulus plan.  They hadn’t time to fill the position of Transportation Security Administration head.  Stealing Chrysler and GM from bondholders took priority over considering Obama’s nominee for the position.  Nationalizing 16% of the US economy and introducing legislation that will increase health care costs for a many Americans while failing to insure its intended beneficiaries was important to our elected officials. Finding a permanent replacement for Kip Hawley, TSA director under George Bush, was not.  So of course it was the Republicans’ fault when the nation hadn’t a TSA leader to respond to the failed Christmas Day airline massacre, not those who dithered away an entire year — or, at least, the four months after Obama finally nominated corrupt ex-FBI agent Erroll Southers for the position.  I’ll grant that Souther’s nomination was put on hold by South Carolina senator Jim DeMint but not without cause.  Had Obama recognized the potential for opposition to his nominee or not been so arrogant as to advance Southers despite his obvious faults a replacement could already have been confirmed.

Southers, who twenty years ago had improperly accessed law enforcement files in order to gather dirt on an estranged wife’s boyfriend, is a perfect match for this administration.  He is on record as being interested in cutting Homeland Security funding and redirecting it to education and advancing global warming initiatives.  Unionizing TSA agents would take priority over making our transportation systems more safe.  Yes, Southers would fit in very well.  So well, in fact, that he quickly won the endorsement of  Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano.

Napolitano earned my derision when her department issued a report claiming that the HSA should focus its resources on obvious threats to national security like returning servicemen, Christian anti-abortion zealots, and right-wing bloggers.  So it’s not surprising that someone she’d endorse would say something like this:

Napolitano showed she was unserious about her duty to protect us when she claimed the “system worked” even though only Abdulmutallab’s incompetence prevented Northwest flight 253’s destruction.  Apparently, so is Southers.  They belong together, just not together in positions vital to US security.

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