From the Department of Even a Stopped Clock Is Right Twice A Day (But Don’t Look for This Phenomenon to Repeat Itself as We Are Dealing With Congress, After All):
House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should never have been created. “I believe we made a big mistake in 2002 or 2003 when we set up the TSA,” he told reporters…
There’re more details at the source, but I’m too stunned to cut and paste them.
Before you check to see if You-Know-Where has frozen over, with A Ruler coming out for freedom instead of tyranny, let me say Wild Bill isn’t exactly there yet. He argued instead for the classically fascist arrangement so beloved of other “pro-freedom” politicians (whoa! Add “oxymoron so incredible it may bust time and space as we know it” to Bill’s pronouncement, and it’s been a very rough morning so far. “Pro-freedom poli–” Oh, come on, I can’t even type it again…): he “said … it would have better in hindsight if lawmakers left the job of securing the nation’s airports to private security companies. ‘Have federal regulators looking, but allow the private sector to do the work,’ he said.”
Wrong–and not only because it’s fascist: it’s also precisely the system that prevailed on 9/11 and allowed the Feds-sorry, terrorists to kill 3000 people, as I explain here.
Update: Joshua Crosby takes exception to my analogy of stopped clocks: “If government were a stopped clock, being correct twice a day would be an infinite % increase (or if using Excel, a #div/0 error). More likely, government is the clock after a power outage. Never right, unaware of what would be right, yet annoyingly flashing it’s wrongness at you.”
10:05 am on March 19, 2015
