Republican Jim DeMint Blames Obama For "Christmas Bomber" While Putting Hold On TSA Appointment
By Logan Murphy Monday Dec 28, 2009 5:00pm
Last Sunday Republican Jim DeMint appeared on Fox News and used the alleged Christmas Bomber issue to attack President Obama and the TSA because the agency's screeners might *gasp* unionize.
As it turns out, DeMint was really trying to deflect attention away from the fact that he voted against TSA funding earlier this year and has put a hold on Obama's nominee to head the department - hampering the agency's ability to put leadership in place:
As Republicans seek to put the blame for the widespread perception of ineptness at the Transportation Security Administration on the Obama administration, Democrats are arguing that Republican legislators bear part of the blame and that they're politically vulnerable on the subject.
Perhaps the largest impediment to change at the agency: South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has a hold on the appointment of a TSA chief, over his concern that the new administration could allow security screeners to unionize.
DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton responds: Democrats have only themselves to blame for not having a confirmed TSA administrator. President Obama waited 243 days in office before making a nomination and Harry Reid has been too busy trading earmarks for votes on health care to schedule debate on the nominee. This is an important debate because many Americans don't want someone running the TSA who stands ready to give union bosses the power to veto or delay future security measures at our airports. Read on...
Senator DeMint is playing political games with funding and an important appointment to an agency tasked with keeping American travelers safe. You can find his contact information here if you would like to ask him to remove his hold on the TSA appointment so the agency can get down to business.
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Watch Congressman Peter King try and say that his criticism of Obama's handling of the bomber is not political. Then immediately flings attacks that have no substance, proving that they are partisan.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=3466
Just another lying pro-rape corporatist. Thanks alot South Carolina.
how his priorities are arranged and whether the safety of Americans tops his desire to see a Democratic President fail. Senator, do the right thing and release your hold on the TSA nomination. I can already see the ads for his opponent if he doesn't "Why does Senator DeMint hate airline safety and the safety of Americans while flying?"
for the TSA Chief, and make the POINT that it is the Repugs, especially the slimy deMint, who've stalled the nomination.
We know why DeMint has held up the TSA nomination-the nominee is BLACK. What is it with these idiots from South Carolina? They put their hatred of BLACKS before the safety and welfare of this nation.
I GUESS THAT'S THE LEGACY THAT STROM THURMOND HAS LEFT US...
Was Peter King's Criticism and attacks on Bush/Cheney when they completely ignored the warnings of 911 and we have the worst terrorist attack on our land in history???
Where were King's and others attacks when we had the shoe bomber.
Why do we even mention or spread the gossip and BS coming from these corrupted , deceitful republicans that shoot their Lies and BS>.
The so called democratic sites have spread their propaganda more than the republicans..
The text of the amendment is below:
(Purpose: To provide additional funds for FIRE grants under section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974)
On page 77, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following: SEC. X (a) The amount appropriated under the heading "firefighter assistance grants'' under the heading "Federal Emergency Management Agency'' under by title III for necessary expenses for programs authorized by the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 is increased by $10,000,000 for necessary expenses to carry out the programs authorized under section 33 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 2229).
(b) The total amount of appropriations under the heading "Aviation Security'' under the heading "Transportation Security Administration'' under title II, the amount for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems under the first proviso under that heading, and the amount for the purchase and installation of explosives detection systems under the second proviso under that heading are reduced by $4,500,000.
(c) From the unobligated balances of amounts appropriated before the date of enactment of this Act for the appropriations account under the heading "state and local programs'' under the heading "Federal Emergency Management Agency'' for "Trucking Industry Security Grants'', $5,500,000 are rescinded.
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These fuckers hate Obama enough to wish death on Americans.
They want something to happen.
There is a huge "I told you so", community among the Repugs.
I hope that most americans can see through their fear mongering.
Putting American and other travelers to the U.S. in danger just to advance ones own cause, or in this case his political party's cause, is tantamount to,...um, ...what's that word? Oh yeah...treason.
On behalf of all progressives living in South Conservolina, I wish to apologize for DeMint's actions (let's throw Lindsey Graham in there too). I never voted for the bum and never will.
It is not As much as their hate for Obama,, It is their hatred for American citizens to receive a decent wage and decent living in this nation...
The more we receive the less they have for themselves and their family...
The problem I now have is the fact that over half of the democrats are enjoying the same luxury from the their funds received Fifty years ago , democrats would "NOT" have voted for giving that much of our money to the banks for their profiteer from their criminal crimes.
And there is no way in h... they would have force Americans to buy or would they have passed a corporate-health written bill as they have this year..
They are on the take as much as the republicans are now...
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Corporate OWN democrats and republicans...
Financial Sector Contributions to Members of the 111th Congress, 1989-2009*
https://www.opensecrets.org/capital_eye/finan...
That Nigerian guy? What a dumb "terrorist". Obviously not his calling. Perhaps he would have done better in real estate. Which reminds me. I wonder which real estate company Larry King uses?
If only his hold on the nominee was as tenuous as his grip on reality.
But, with Coburn and Inhofe as competition, this stooge places 3rd in the dumbest MFer in the Senate.
And a lot of Republican Senators can give Moe, Larry and Curly a run for the money on any given day.
How do we know that there is not a Repug plant that reports to Cheney in the TSA that did not enter the suspect on the no-fly-list in hopes that a terrorist attack would point to Obama's inexperience.
I know, I know, that's crazy talk.......but how is it any crazier than the bullshit that these Repug looney tunes come up with?
Would put nothing pass them... Cheney had his own hit squad in and out of our country.. Cheney showed he would do as he please when he shot the Judge in the face at close range ,,,and the ""Judge apologize"" to Cheney for Cheney shooting him...
There have also been two many deaths or suicides to / by persons which knew too much on Cheney , Bush and company.
Treason , torture , illegal invasion , giving our tax money to Halliburton and Blackwater with no bid contracts..
You name it and if it is against our constitution and laws Cheney has either done or had someone do it for him....
There is something wrong with our democrats for never even trying to prosecute Cheney , Bush , Rove and the other criminals in their administration..
Pelosi ,,,, Impeachment is off the table and was never allowed to be put on it...
Waxman raised hell about how he was going to start all these criminal investigations and prosecution along with other democrats before took control of the government ,than all the democrats lost their nerve and backbone to say a word...
Obama censored information that would indict Cheney , Bush and others so d... quick they must have s... in their pants.. Obama we will forget the past and look into the future... Obama is making the future the same as the past administration...
There is something seriously wrong in our government besides being brought by the global giant monopolies..
I can no longer stand EMANUEL and now Obama and some of the democrats are beginning to be in the same arrogant , deceitful light..
One would think that a President who is obviously "same as Bush" should get more respect from his real party.
Tell me what do you think, Evet.
democrats respect Lieberman and Spector
Emanuel , the Clinton crowd around with the centrists have taken over the democratic party...
Emanuel has been recruiting , funding and supporting republican or persons with republican policies for many years now.
This is why Emanuel disliked Dean... Because Dean would not give him all the funds he wish for his "certain republican" candidates.. This is why Dean was ousted from being in charge of the DNC funds.. Dean created the 50 state grass root movement and Emanuel has taking the credit for it...
Specter have supported and voted for the Bush republican policies over 95 percent of the time...
How can Emanuel fund and support Specter with our democratic political funds..
Emanuel believe after he gets the democrats to give citizenship to all the illegal immigrants in mass numbers , he can tell the liberals to go to h... as he just about already said after the 2008 elections...
Emanuel and Obama have become so close the the right wing republicans they have been kissing their a..
from my memory what villain Demint reminded me of. I finally got it. Next Halloween, if you really want to scare the kids consider this costume: http://www.mooncostumes.com/item/24008
F U!
Isn't there some kind of licensing required for media? Why can we not make an issue of this? Make the Fair and Balanced doctrine the law again. Let's get foreign ownership out of our media, or at least what passes for news. Then we might get some truth or at least those willing to speak truth to power and liars.
entertainment.
They do it all the time.
Until recently broadcast TV was sitcoms
And TV stations are licensed both at the national network level and at the local level.
The licensed bars, adult entertainment, tobacco use etc.
And national broadcasts (radio and TV) were under the Fairness Doctrine (not Fair and Balanced which is the faux "news" slogan), from 1949 to 1987, so the precedent is there.
And even before then there was the Hayes Office enforcing obscenity codes against entertainment.
Cable was never covered, because it was felt to be important to have an alternative venue, but now with the internet, cable and satellite could be regulated, particularly since cable companies are dependent upon eminent domain and right-of-ways to lay new cables.
Additionally, progressive in New York seemed to be refering to the NEWS media, not entertainment as you shifted the subject.
Even if a lot of us consider it infotainment, news divisions are generally separate from entertainment.
they have to separate the entertainment from the propaganda.
What kind of propaganda benefit comes from brittany flashing her poon, or Charley Sheen being arrested, or Tiger Woods gettiing some?
More cynically, they keep them separate so their news people can interview TV celebrities from their own networks, and pass them off as entertainment news instead of advertising.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but it seems to me that Charlie Sheen's arrest could be used as a huge propaganda tool for those news organizations on the right(Faux) considering Sheen's progressive views.
I know his father has them; I've never heard of him particularly having any.
Maybe we could fault the father for raising the son, but wouldn't they have to blame sarah for her daughter's baby born out of wedlock?
And aahhnulddd got elected governator despite stories coming out about his wandering hands.
start with blaming Adam for raising Caine.
The mere fact that he is Martin Sheen's son could be reason enough to use him as a tool of propaganda.
Charlie was an outspoken critic of the Bush administration and whether you believe that there was a conspiracy or not, he is a firm believer in the 9/11 truth movement and has appealed to President Obama about opening up an investigation into Bushco's involvement in it.
Maybe, me using the term "progressive" in relation to him, might not be apt. I have to think that as far as the Sheen family is concerned, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
That may be so but the media also reported on Mark Foley, Larry Craig, David Vitters and others.
As for faux "news" I would agree that they're propaganda simply because they can't even identify the party affiliation of those scandals I listed above straight.
As they should have, but Foley, Craig, and Vitter are not entertainers and as entertaining as their dilemas were, they were still politicians. A different standard applies.
I agree, it has to do with core issues, some they raised themselves, like "family values."
But that was my point, media news follows the trivial, and ignores the substantial, thus belying any claims to propagandism.
I knew some conservatives who were having a field day when Alex Baldwin left a loud profane phone message with his young daughter. My reaction was, "So? He never presented himself as an exemplar of 'family values' par se, but it's pretty desperate for someone to take advantage of such a bad situation, any of us could find ourselves in, to score cheap political points."
Exactly. As far as that torrid trio goes, their philosophies amounted to a case of "do as I say, not as I do", and justly when they were caught, their feet should have and were held to the fire. They got what they deserved.
As far as Baldwin goes, he gained points with the public. Part of parenting involves disciplining your children when they act out of line. His daughter was acting like a brat, and he corrected her. That shows to me strong family values. Hats off to Alex Baldwin.
But getting back to the point, yeah, these are trivial matters. That's the problem with living in the era of the 24-hour news service. They need filler to help with the slow news days and to keep their viewers, viewing. So we get celebrity gossip hours, live police chases, feel good stories and political commentary shows.
What makes you feel better about yourself and the world around you? Ukulele boy or the Xmas Bomber?
Your right about the 24/7 news cycle creating the infotainment.
But propaganda splits two ways the bandwagon and parades, and the more thoughtful but deceitful. Infotainment really doesn't seem to do either with cats stuck in the tree stories.
Even newspapers do little more than take stories right off the wire services, whilst firing all their staff reporters.
concise explaination of the De Mint and CO. agenda. They are not just saying no--
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/19/b...
Seems to me that there needs to be a long term effort to vote members of "The Family" out of office.
There also needs to be a top to bottom purge of tax exempt "religious" organizations by the IRS.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/23/poll.p...
I was wondering how long it was going to take for the GOP wingnut to start parroting what that idiot said on FAUX news. Didn't take long at all.
These buttheads put up roadblocks in front of everything the Obama administration tries to get done, then blame him for not getting things done. Hullo!!??
they don't have to honor their dishonorable "holds"; the President can make interim appointments (like Bush did).
DeMint, et al are the reason this country may have seen its last glory.
By running in campaign mode 24/7 and never even attempting to govern, they have placed theair part before this country. Only the fortunes of the Republican Party matter to them.
If Obama, or any Democrat could produce a cure for cancer the Republicans would claim that it came as a gift from Satan.
There can be and should be no bipartisabship as long as they continue in such a traitorius fashion.
beat them down, humiliate them, use every parlementary trick to marginalize them and then they will change. But not before.
It was a joke then. Screeners are there for a paycheck. The screeners at my airport failed all the time, in one test a screener put his hand on a pistol without noticing and then let the bag go though. It was a sad joke, We need to hire law enforcement PROFESSIONALS to do the job, not people who score lower on civil service exams then postal workers. Before you get all///// re-read the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution regarding "administrative searches".
Or it was in the 80's when I took it.
........that these Sociopath Repugs hate Muslims more than they hate Americans that will never vote for them.
As long as they see attacks on civilians by Muslims as an attack on the country they will continue to insist on safety procedures that protect all of us.
I pitty our country when someone like Limbaugh points out that Repugs should be outraged that our socialist government is subsidizing safety proceedures that should be paid for by free markets and the government should not be interfering in private matters because citizens can fend for themselves........
.............oh wait, that's exactly what they were doing before 9-11-01.........hmmmm, it's only good socialism when they say it's good socialism.
How predictable that Republicans would try to politicize this situation. Republicans are a disgusting bunch.
and then paid for art therapy when they returned to Saudi Arabia. I wonder what the quid pro quo was?
yes one can conclude that. and they are unions with Americans as members. so therefore, DeMint thinks Americans are more dangerous than terrorists. heaven forbid, we cant have them unionize. ooh scary thought that. what an utter a-hole Demint is.
That Jim DeMint is one serious wanker.
Wonder how many of his donations come from private security companies?
I can't wait until unions start shutting down business. It's bloody time the people started taking some control of government back from the robber barons.
They seem to elect nothing but freaks down there, DeMint, Lindsey Graham, that freak Governor of theirs and the moron who shouted out "You Lie" during Obama's speech.
We should let these America haters secede like they want to, then they can truly become the third world nation they aspire to be.
Let me get this straight. In December 2001, a guy gets on a plane bound for the US with a bomb in his shoe, fails to blow up the plane and is subdued by other passengers. And Bush is hailed as a great hero who kept us safe from terrorism in the post 9/11 era (why he gets a Mulligan on 9/11 itself is never clearly explained.)
But then the same thing happens in 2009 and somehow Obama is not lauded for keeping us safe from terrorism, but is somehow now held resonsible for airport security in Holland.
Do these republican cranks ever even listen to themselves?
...fox noise is hammering the U.S. for not having the screening tools to "sniff out" all of these different types of explosives, even though the repukes would say NO to funding it, plus you can't make every country in the world buy such technology. they call for MORE racial or religous profiling to make it all better.
Some schmuck boards a plane from OUTSIDE the US, and the plot failed like the shoe bomber and what repiglicans do? point fingers at Obama.
*facepalm*
No suprise there folks!
Is that like the Edvard Munch The Scream facepalm or the Home Alone Macaulay Culkin facepalm?
Should we really call this guy a "bomber" of any kind if his charge failed to go off?
Even for bumbling would-be terrorists, this is a massive fail. It's an 8.0 on the Richter Fail. He wanted to blow up himself and the airplane he was on. Instead, he seared his crotch, got caught with explosive underwear, and now faces life in prison. Flaming Balsac. The Human Crotch Torch.
I tell ya, without major assistance from the Bushies, the CIA, the FBI, Big Oil, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, these al Qaida dudes are some real losers.
when being a douchebag, just isn't enough.
Senator B. Demintted.
Hey South Carolina; did you settle for this DeMint asshole because there were no serial killers on the ballot?
This inbred, cretin clearly represents other hate filled bigoted half wits in his home state. De-mented and Joe Wilson tell me all I need to know about South Carolina. Jim Clyburn may be the exception.
Explain to me how the minority party is holding up anything. We need to stop sending democrats who act like fucking pussies. We need more congressman and senators like Alan Grayson someone who will tell the truth and slam the people who are the real problem in DC. We need leaders who bring there balls in dump trucks not guys like Harry Reed he is too soft spoken hell Nancy Pelosi seems to have bigger balls than Harry Reed. Jim DeMint should be outed on the Senate Floor for being the obstructionist that he is. Hell will someone please sick Senator Al Franken on him. He is a guy who seems to ask the correct questions. WE NEED HARVEY WALLBANGERS AS LEADERS NOT MIKEY MILQUETOASTS
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