Obscure Labor Issues Block Homeland Security Agency

Washington Post ^ | http://www.washingtonpost.9/23/02 | Bill Miller and Juliet Eilperin

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The biggest disagreement over President Bush's proposal to create a Department of Homeland Security doesn't involve protecting the nation's porous borders, improving spotty bioterror defenses or fixing the intelligence system.

Instead the White House and the Senate are engaged in a battle over the rights of management and workers in the new department, a titanic struggle that has transformed the seemingly obscure issue into the biggest obstacle to the most sweeping government reorganization of the past half-century.

The dispute pits Democrats and their formidable labor allies against the power and prestige of the president, who has threatened to veto legislation that doesn't give him the flexibility he wants to shape the new department's 170,000-member workforce.

A few moderate senators will determine the outcome of what is expected to be a very close vote... CLICK

[Cicero]

Obscure labor issues? You mean like the Dems want to put millions more federal bureaucrats on their Dem-voters-for-life list (and after death too, no doubt)?

[Let's Roll]

Even worse - they want to put incompetent workers on their dim for life list - endangering your and your family's lives. Like they did with airport security - I know I sure feel safer now that they are paying the same incompetents much more money.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

You mean like the Dems want to put millions more federal bureaucrats on their Dem-voters-for-life list (and after death too, no doubt)?

The Leftists are against military spending, but as I've asked before, and as you make obvious here, since when have they been against spending in general?