January 20, 2010
— DrewM First concrete fallout from Scott Brown victory?
The Obama administration's choice to lead the struggling Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name from consideration Wednesday, just weeks after revelations that he had provided misleading information to Congress prompted several Republicans to suggest his nomination would not move forward without a fight.Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent and homeland security specialist, was presented as a leader who would improve the TSA's sprawling operations and improve passenger screening to prevent such attacks as the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner.
..."It is apparent that this path has been obstructed by political ideology," he said. "My nomination has become a lightning rod for those who have chosen to push a political agenda at the risk of the safety and security of the American people. This partisan climate is unacceptable and I refuse to allow myself to remain part of their dialogue."
Oh shove it up your ass. There were plenty of substantive reasons to vote against this guy, including his past history of breaking privacy rules (perhaps even laws), the possibility he'd support unionizing TSA workers and oh yeah, a rather nuanced view of the nature of the threats he'd be facing at TSA.
Getting cloture on his nomination was going to be a challenge before last night, this morning it likely became impossible.
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Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 08:55 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Mbruce at January 20, 2010 08:55 AM (t/GDA)
By the way, DeMint was right - health care wound up being Obama's Waterloo !
Dang, I wish DeMint would become the GOP Senate leader. Mush-Mouth McConnell has no cajones.
Posted by: Marybeth at January 20, 2010 08:56 AM (hBRoa)
including his past history of breaking privacy rules (perhaps even laws)
Not just the crime, the cover-up. It was soooo very lame and probably didn't help get the support of the Congress-critters who were supposed to be on his side.
Posted by: Mama AJ en fuego (still smoldering) at January 20, 2010 08:56 AM (Be4xl)
Posted by: Harry Reid at January 20, 2010 08:57 AM (PonvG)
First concrete fallout from Scott Brown victory
Nah; he was trashed before last night. Someone probably found even more dirt
Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2010 08:57 AM (QrA9E)
Posted by: Jayne on the left coast at January 20, 2010 08:57 AM (ShaA6)
Posted by: Rick at January 20, 2010 08:58 AM (L/O45)
I wish DeMint would become the GOP Senate leader.
Wont happen as long as the Mclame RINO wing has control of the Party.
Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2010 08:58 AM (QrA9E)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 20, 2010 08:58 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: AE at January 20, 2010 09:00 AM (kSfPT)
10 Light skinned. Almost no negro dialect. I don't get it.
Well, NOT exactly. DeMint risked a lot blocking this guy. He obviously is a dirt bag, since none of the usually suspects called DeMint a racist.
A lying FBI agent is not someone you want running the TSA, even IF he's DARK skinned AND speaks with a negro dialect, whatever the fuck that is.
Posted by: Kemp at January 20, 2010 09:00 AM (qvT/A)
Can't wait to see who's next on the Obama Jackass Appointment Express. Does he even know anyone who isn't a loon or a hood?
Posted by: lincolntf at January 20, 2010 09:00 AM (Ab8Sw)
"at the risk of the safety and security of the American people"
What an arrogant prick. Ooh, we're all going to be in much greater danger because he was confirmed for the position. Well, I'll guess we'll never know will we? And by the way Erroll, Fuck You and the horse you rode in on.
Posted by: conscious, but still shuddering after last night at January 20, 2010 09:01 AM (Vu6sl)
Whatever. Just go, and take Napolitano with you.
Posted by: toby928 at January 20, 2010 09:01 AM (PD1tk)
I wish DeMint would become the GOP Senate leader.
Wont happen as long as the Mclame RINO wing has control of the Party.
Posted by: Vic atJ.D. Hayworth, baby.
Posted by: kansas at January 20, 2010 09:01 AM (mka2b)
Can't wait to see who's next on the Obama Jackass Appointment Express. Does he even know anyone who isn't a loon or a hood?
Dear Leader seems to know quite a few Communists, not sure if that categories them as a loon or a hood....
Posted by: shibumi at January 20, 2010 09:02 AM (OKZrE)
Posted by: The American Public at January 20, 2010 09:02 AM (bvDV5)
Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2010 09:03 AM (7K04W)
Hail......in Southern California.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 20, 2010 09:03 AM (I/MqP)
You realize Tax Cheat Timmy is running the Treasury, right?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2010 09:03 AM (7BU4a)
"Yes, I'd like the 10-piece Chicken McNuggets."
"What kinda sauce?"
"Honey mustard."
"I'm sorry, we out of the honey mustard."
"It is apparent that this path has been obstructed by political ideology."
BTW is it me or when a fast-food clerk says "May I take your order" it sounds like "Mayor take Yoda?"
Posted by: Crusty at January 20, 2010 09:03 AM (GvSpB)
Check.
Harry Reid wants to rush through his confirmation without any hearings.
Check.
Come to find out this proposed TSA head wanted to unionize TSA workers, potentially allowing for our national airport security to be held hostage to union leader thugs who are demanding better snack machines for the TSA break rooms
Check.
Jim DeMint wants to ask some questions, which is his job to do in his role as committee ranking member.
Check
But it's DeMint who is at fault?
Posted by: Intrepid at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (92zkk)
Not just that--such a list is a great starting point for revenge prosecutions.
I'm sure I'll take a lot of crap over saying that because justice shouldn't be politicized. But using that as an excuse to look the other way *is* politicizing justice.
Criminals need to learn to keep their crooked asses in the shadows.
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (Ce+tv)
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (hoowK)
Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2010 01:03 PM (7K04W)
I'm good at moving people.
Posted by: Martha Coakley's Chief Press Pusher at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (7BU4a)
Hail......in Southern California.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 20, 2010 01:03 PM (I/MqP)
But, but, it never rains in California and...
Posted by: conscious, but still shuddering after last night at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (Vu6sl)
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (VGeGl)
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 20, 2010 09:04 AM (mR7mk)
Criminals need to learn to keep their crooked asses in the shadows.
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 01:04 PM (Ce+tv)
How different would history be if Bush had gone after Clinton's cronies and Gore's vote fraud friends in Florida?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2010 09:05 AM (7BU4a)
Does Seagate make a hard drive that large?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 20, 2010 09:05 AM (I/MqP)
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 09:06 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Xoxotl at January 20, 2010 09:07 AM (9W2Jz)
Posted by: nyc redneck at January 20, 2010 09:07 AM (EtrGh)
Posted by: garrett at January 20, 2010 09:08 AM (V/fRA)
How different would history be if Jane Fonda had been hauled in front of a firing squad on her return from her propaganda tour of North Vietnam?
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 09:08 AM (Ce+tv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:09 AM (UOM48)
http://is.gd/6Geio
Posted by: WTFCI at January 20, 2010 09:10 AM (GtYrq)
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 01:08 PM (Ce+tv)
Its what I would have done.
Posted by: FDR at January 20, 2010 09:10 AM (7BU4a)
20 Mush-Mouth McConnell has no cajones cojones.
Whoops. Must be because I don't have any. In the literal sense.
Thanks for the correction!
Posted by: Marybeth at January 20, 2010 09:10 AM (hBRoa)
Posted by: Harry Reid (D, Short Bus) at January 20, 2010 09:11 AM (gJL6J)
Don't forget that in Vietnam the commies have a statue of John Effin' Kerry as a war hero. That in itself should disqualify him from public office.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2010 09:11 AM (p05LM)
Can't wait to see who's next on the Obama Jackass Appointment Express. Does he even know anyone who isn't a loon or a hood?
I'm tanned, rested, and ready - and I'm not working on a book right now, wink wink nudge nudge.
Posted by: Bill Ayers at January 20, 2010 09:13 AM (7BU4a)
I blame Bush.
Posted by: pep at January 20, 2010 09:15 AM (5GcKk)
Posted by: Vashta.Nerada at January 20, 2010 09:15 AM (emMe8)
Posted by: logprof at January 20, 2010 09:16 AM (gJL6J)
Posted by: GarandFan at January 20, 2010 09:16 AM (ZQBnQ)
" ... I refuse to allow myself to remain part of their dialogue."
More plausibly, he doesn't want to contaminate all the bullshit with horseshit.
Posted by: FireHorse at January 20, 2010 09:17 AM (Vl5GH)
"at the risk of the safety and security of the American people"
What an arrogant prick. Ooh, we're all going to be in much greater danger because he was confirmed for the position.Almost sounds like a threat, doesn't it? Van Jones was mouthing the same kind of things as he disappeared under the bus too, as I recall. Maybe they plan on instigating a race war.
Posted by: Dang Straights at January 20, 2010 09:17 AM (fx8sm)
One the stuff that he copied from the Bush admin, I gave him a solid B. Everything else:
Fail.
Posted by: CUS at January 20, 2010 09:19 AM (wOGfT)
HEADLINE: I have received an advanced copy of a synopsis of Obama's State of the Union Address:
1. I inherited bad things.
2. I made the bad things better
3. Except where I didn't because (see #1)
4. Brown is at fault for all bad things from here forward except for (see #1)
5. I still did all the good stuff (if any)
6. Thank you.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 20, 2010 09:21 AM (r1h5M)
Employing Jennings is outrageous. That said, there is no mechanism to remove him other than public opinion.
Give it time. Obama is trashing the good will of all but the solid bloc of idiots who are predisposed to worship him.
As disapproval of Obama increases, the public will be more receptive to the sick facts about Jennings.
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 09:21 AM (Ce+tv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:22 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: rightzilla at January 20, 2010 09:23 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: Vet Missing Parts at January 20, 2010 09:26 AM (qPu42)
A lying FBI agent is not someone you want running the TSA, even IF he's DARK skinned AND speaks with a negro dialect, whatever the fuck that is.
Think about this; if he had been a southern white male he would have been fired or reassigned to bumf.., Egypt when caught using his position to investigate enemies.
Shit, who am I kidding? If he has been a white southern male he would have never got the job to begin with.
Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2010 09:26 AM (QrA9E)
From what Brown said last night in his victory speech he already has. Good on at least some of the Dems to accept their beatings like men.
Oh, and Southers? Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you in the ass...
Posted by: Hatchet Five at January 20, 2010 09:26 AM (67Cew)
Posted by: Ryan Frank at January 20, 2010 09:29 AM (c52rb)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:29 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at January 20, 2010 09:30 AM (DIYmd)
Gee, I just found one of those Jello Pudding foil lids in my underwear.
That explains the butterscotch aroma when I go to the bathroom.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 20, 2010 09:30 AM (i3AsK)
Fail.
Posted by: CUS at January 20, 2010 01:19 PM (wOGfT)
You and just about everyone else man. Do you miss Bush yet?
hahahaha
Posted by: Mord at January 20, 2010 09:31 AM (tTj19)
Can't? Or won't?
http://ace.mu.nu/index.rdf
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 09:31 AM (Ce+tv)
ALL HAIL GRIDLOCK!
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 12:55 PM (Ce+tv)
Me, Gridlock, smash whiny Marxists!
Posted by: Me, Gridlock at January 20, 2010 09:32 AM (T0NGe)
I gave Obama a "B" on Iraq and flunked him on the rest. I gave him a "D" overall.
Posted by: Zimriel at January 20, 2010 09:32 AM (9Sbz+)
Unlike most corncob smokin', cousin pokin', chicken chokin' rednecks who have idiot cousins, I've only got a liberal sister in San Francisco. It's esssentially the same thing.
She keeps the tube tuned to CNN with occasional hits from MSNBC. That stuff will make you go deaf, dumb and blind with hair on your palms.
Anyhoo, right after the PantyBomber lit the damp squib on Christmas Day, I got a note from said liberal sister saying that a "Senator Dimwit" had prevented Obama's TSA nominee from being confirmed and so we were all in great parallel. I gather that "Dimwit" is the favorite name for Senator DeMint on all them there sophisticated CNN and MSNBC cable news shows. Course my dear Sis hadn't figured out that our New Messiah had failed to nominate anyone for the TSA vacancy until September. Old Senator Dimwit had only held things up for 2 months whilst Captain Zero had delayed things for 9 months.
Well long about this time, other Senators had figured out that Erroll Southers was giving them the old shuck and jive, and had been "less than candid" in his testimony before the Senate. All of a sudden there were half a dozen other Senators who joined "Senator Dimwit" in putting a "hold" on Southers' nomination. After that it only took another two and a half weeks for Southers to become road kill looking up at the underside of the Obama bus.
All of which proves that Obama can and will nominate some goofy sacks of shit for various posts, and the Senate will confirm most of them--but if you're caught lying to the Senators, well, you'll probably become "road kill".
Posted by: Corncob Supporter at January 20, 2010 09:32 AM (ktYjH)
Posted by: Holdfast at January 20, 2010 09:32 AM (Gzb30)
In my day, we referred to them as NEEEEGros and they were not thrown under the bus, they just sat in the back of it. Don't get mad at me if, at 70+ I refer back to that terminology because I am a pasty faced, slit eyed white bread Mormon who just can't help myself. So letÂ’s be tolerant!
Posted by: Harry the Hater Reid at January 20, 2010 09:32 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 20, 2010 09:33 AM (ucxC/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:35 AM (UOM48)
And, iirc, DeMint kept asking Reid to calendar it for confirmation hearings and Reid kept refusing. So frustrating that the Demo-tards are unable to grasp simple, readily available factual material like this.
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 09:35 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Zimriel at January 20, 2010 09:35 AM (9Sbz+)
Nah; he was trashed before last night. Someone probably found even more dirt
Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2010 12:57 PM (QrA9E)
More like last night was better than Friday afternoon data dump.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 20, 2010 09:35 AM (T0NGe)
Homophobe!
Posted by: Husky Blogger at January 20, 2010 01:27 PM (tG+m6)
now if this was true, I would be calling for Janet Incompetano's job as well.
Eh, wait...shit DAMN DAMN DAMN I a homophobe!!! what will Hillbuzz think????
Posted by: dananjcon at January 20, 2010 09:36 AM (pr+up)
Peaches,
Please report to my office in Las Vegas. We will begin your re-education program at once.
Posted by: Harry the Hater Reid at January 20, 2010 09:36 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at January 20, 2010 09:37 AM (U4m5q)
That's what I would have picked.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 20, 2010 09:38 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: rightzilla at January 20, 2010 09:38 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:39 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Zimriel at January 20, 2010 09:39 AM (9Sbz+)
If your sister ever dumped a police officer boyfriend, would she be all right with it if he ran checks on her new boyfriends?
Posted by: MikeO at January 20, 2010 09:39 AM (Ce+tv)
Hey Really GROOVY CIGARETTE SMOKING MARXIST NEARLY REAL FAKE PRESIDENT McDIMWIT!!
Maybe a quick DATE NIGHT to NYC and a MANHATTAN FLYOVER could make you feel better.
Posted by: gus at January 20, 2010 09:40 AM (Vqruj)
Posted by: Zimriel at January 20, 2010 09:41 AM (9Sbz+)
Posted by: sherlock at January 20, 2010 09:42 AM (N7uu0)
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 09:42 AM (9Wv2j)
Front page of Politico had a piece on the Obamas giving up Wednesday night cocktail parties. The humanity!
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:44 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: dagny at January 20, 2010 09:48 AM (1d/Kt)
Posted by: dananjcon at January 20, 2010 09:48 AM (pr+up)
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 09:49 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: gus at January 20, 2010 09:50 AM (Vqruj)
Agreed! And I didn't really care for the way she threw her support to Brown, uh, late last night. And I think her tv gig is a huge mistake.
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 09:50 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Ian S. at January 20, 2010 09:56 AM (p05LM)
Agreed! And I didn't really care for the way she threw her support to Brown, uh, late last night. And I think her tv gig is a huge mistake.
a) That she campaigns for McCain doesn't surprise me. She's said good things about him even when he hasn't returned the favor. She feels as if she owes him for giving her national prominence. It's probably not the best idea, given that it's a reasonably contested primary, but that's the way Palin rolls.
b) I have no doubt that she reached out to the Brown people offering help if they wanted it. It was very wise that she was not available to be demagogued, even if the libs did try. Her support would have been counterproductive.
c) I'm not a big fan of Palin 2012, so I think the TV gig is a good idea for her. They'll ease her in and eventually, she'll be debating some of their more rational liberals.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 20, 2010 09:59 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: jcjimi at January 20, 2010 10:04 AM (NEj2I)
Posted by: Barry at January 20, 2010 10:06 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 10:07 AM (9Wv2j)
"It is apparent that this path has been obstructed by the matrices of political ideology. His nomination has become a lightning rod for those who have chosen to push agreement between subject and verb. This partisan climate is unacceptable and I refuse to allow myself to remain part of their dialogue which is free of inappropriately used big words."
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