This would defy credible explanation unless you understood that the Obama administration really is a collection of amateurs.
Professionals do not let this happen.
Erroll Southers is Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Safety Administration — the TSA, that organization that screens passengers getting on airplanes.
One would think the Obama administration would screen the man in charge of screening the rest of us. But they did not.
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has done the country a great service. He put a hold on Mr. Southers because Southers refuses to say whether or not he opposes TS unionization.
Without Senator DeMint’s hold, Mr. Southers may have cleared the Senate before anyone realized that the White House had never screened Mr. Southers. Now, the Washington Post is reporting there are some serious, serious issues in Mr. Southers’ background.
The Washington Post last week … detailed how Southers provided differing accounts to the Senate about incidents in 1987 and 1988 in which he inappropriately accessed a federal database, possibly in violation of privacy laws, in a search for records about his estranged wife’s boyfriend.
The White House now admits it had no idea that Mr. Southers had given conflicting info and apparently had no clue that, while in the FBI, Mr. Southers would dig through the confidential information about American citizens.
Only this White House would hire a tax cheat to enforce the tax laws and a peeping Tom of government records to peep on every Tom, Dick, and Harry going through airport security.
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I asked WHY Southers...
SusanAnne Hiller (Diary) Wednesday, January 6th at 10:32PM EDT (link)The answer is because he wants to UNIONIZE TSA workers. That’s it.
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louesc (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 7:02PM EDT (link)You think that was bad how did he come to the conclusion to picking a trans gender to the Dept of Commerce he is a left wing lunatic. Listen to he/she says about using education to indoctrinate us to understand and except them.. Check out your new Trans Gender Czar.
https://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com/Obamas_Transgender_Czar.html
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You are spot on
edwlstr Thursday, January 7th at 11:44PM EDT (link)Susan Anne. These left wing nuts want to create a Workers United States of America. It will be another popular revolution to oust the manager/owners and have the workers run the productive sectors of the country. We all know how well that worked in Russia. But some have always believed that American tinkerers are better at tinkering than Russian tinkerers. Somehow I am not that certain. I guess we’ll see?
Senator DeMint represents ME!
roscopico (Diary) Wednesday, January 6th at 11:03PM EDT (link)The Senators from WI (albeit duly elected) are an embarrassment.
Thank G-d there are still people of honor in the Senate, and Jim DeMint represents many more than he might imagine.
Hey SC, I’ll trade Feingold and Herb Kohl for a flyover visit from DeMint…. Just one… Deal?
You have to keep ours, however… I’d bet Graham would get along just fine with Feingold. Kohl is pretty much a doorstop (even when he’s not napping), so you won’t have to worry much about him.
Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…
I'm suprised we're not going after Feingold
scarlos (Diary) Wednesday, January 6th at 11:20PM EDT (link)Seeing as he only won 55% last time, and has always been a rock-solid Liberal in a swing state.
Socialism is Oligarchy in disguise
I don't understand either. Feingold must go...
roscopico (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 12:02AM EDT (link)Rasmussen puts him as safe, but i heard a generic last fall that former WI gov Tommy Thompson could take him….
This late in the ball game and nobody willing to step to the plate.
I’d love somebody like DeMint here, but we as Americans are lucky to have SOMEBODY (even if not from our own state).
Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…
Makes sense to me
red4ever (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 1:10AM EDT (link)Pick the guy who doesn’t pay his taxes to head the Treasury Dept that oversees the IRS.
Don’t screen the guy who will be in charge of screening.
It IS a system. Albeit a really bad one.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
You are CORRECT red4 it is THE PLAN.....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 5:18AM EDT (link)It is Alinsky inside and OUT! It is turning EVERYTHING on its head! It is by design I TRULY believe that! The Idiot in Chief has so IMMERSED himself in the teachings of Saul Alinksky that he is doing to America EVERYTHING you would expect….night is day and day is night!
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JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 5:51AM EDT (link)think about that because in addition to those UPSIDE DOWN/INSIDE OUT FLIPS you have a sexual FREAK as Czar of our childrens safety and if you sit and look into the pasts of just about EVERYONE he has placed in a position they would be the LEAST likely person to EVER HEAD THOSE JOBS! Alinsky would truly be PROUD of Obama!
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hickorystick (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 1:31AM EDT (link)“in a search for records about his estranged wife’s boyfriend.”
but of course the river doesn’t flow this way.
Maybe Obama can just name him TSA Czar instead
bk (Diary) Thursday, January 7th at 4:23AM EDT (link)It’s crazy. Obama claims that nothing is more important to him than protecting our security, so it’s a crying shame that the evil DeMint is holding up this pick as a cheap political trick.
The fact is that Obama didn’t even nominte Southers until after Labor Day, by which time he had either signed or had stated a wish to sign various porkulus bills, cap and trade, health care reform, and various and sundry other things. So there is no doubt whatsoever that finding someone to head up TSA was pretty darn far down on Obama’s list of priorities. Then as soon as he picks a union lackey for the post and can’t get it crammed through the Senate overnight, he wants to whine about the GOP.
How can this happen?
hayes180 Thursday, January 7th at 9:54AM EDT (link)How come every time someone is needed in an important job they give it to the least qualified canidates, or at this point any Joe out there…
ie Secretary of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano and now this TSA worker. Its bad enough the thought of having Southers being in charge of what I’dl like to think is a big deal.. in charge of screening everyone who enters a plane in the U.S.
And not to get off topic but can someone explain to me how Janet Napolitano is Sec of Homeland Security and what has made her qualified for this position?
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