LaHood: Time for GOP to "wake up" to avoid "calamity" at airports

CBS News ^ | February 22, 2013

[FlingWingFlyer]

This commie RINO moron has been announcing his retirement for the last two years. He needs to shut up and get the hell out. What a pinhead.

[grobdriver]

given that his department will have to cut nearly $1 billion from its budget, with more than $600 million coming from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

What a disingenuous sack if $hit.
He's going to spend more money next year than he spent this year.

[Sirius Lee]

Maybe they can fire all the TSA union tards and then give the savings over to the FAA.

[Mr. K]

2%

Thats what all this complainign is about ... a lousy 2%.

If Obama can’t cut 2% after raising the deficit 400% then he is not serious about fixing the deficit.

[rainee]

Nicely said..& where’s the GOP to simply articulate this??
They do this every frickin time! sitting on sidelines, letting RATS control the narrative..so frustrating!! They need to get their heads out of the sand & fight back.

[Vigilanteman]

Bingo! Fire the damn TSA flunkies and make the airlines responsible for their own security. Can anyone cite a single documented instance where these rent-a-cops actually prevented a terrorist incident?

No, I'm not talking about some guy returning from a hunting trip with a forgotten shell in his carry-on luggage or some poor schlub who had to have his CPAP machine tested. They are pretty good at that type of trivia.

I'm talking about an actual terrorist incident like the shoe bomber who was stopped by passengers on the plane.

[onyx]

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[TADSLOS]

Let it all come to a standstill. Quit feeding the beast.

[Responsibility2nd]

Exactly. I was gonna post these same thoughts. You beat me to it.

[Jane Long]

Enormous Impact™

I'm so flipping tired of this administration and the "enormous impact" ANYTHING the Repubs do/don't do will have.

[TurboZamboni]

yeah. God forbid TSA can’t make more toddlers in wheelchairs cry.

[cripplecreek]

I’m tired of being threatened.

Pull the trigger scumbags.

[Paladin2]

0bamaCare is really the only case that mattered.

[Notary Sojac]

Those of us who will drive 2,000 miles rather than submit to the TSA gropers and the airline “service” which is fast approaching 1970’s Soviet Union levels of quality, actually don’t give a crap what happens at the airport.

[browniexyz]

So Ray LaHood is out there agitating to make people panic—so what, he’s appointed by Obama, it’s his job to lie. When I hear this from the CEOs of the airlines, I MIGHT start believing.....

[aimhigh]

Airport security is paid for by addon airline ticket fees. Budget cuts should have no impact on a fee paid service.

[nascarnation]

Airport security is paid for by addon airline ticket fees.

Maybe that's like saying Social Security is paid for by FICA taxes, LOL.

[hal ogen]

This lahood syncopant asshat pinhead moonbat fool needs to STFU. lahood is obviously a nobama butt-kisser. Maybe they should eliminate the department of transportation as an experiment. Sequester the whole lousy government...would anyone notice? Who cares...what does it matter now?

[cashless]

Shouldn't LaHood be honest and say the $1Billion cut of his increased next year budget.??

Oh. YEAH. Right. This a regime thinks honesty is a quaint word used by weaklings.