Saturday, March 17, 2007

Demint: McCaskill Amendment Hurts Security

South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim Demint has penned a column that criticizes an amendment offered by Sen. Claire McCaskill that forces the Transportation Security Administration to collectively bargain with unions.

"Forcing TSA to negotiate with unions before it can carry out decisions that will save American lives creates a national security risk. This should never be considered in Congress, let alone on a bill that is supposed to make Americans safer," Sen. Demint writes.

Demint goes on to write that, McCaskill said to him that she did not consider al Qaeda a "newly imminent threat." From the Demint column:

"When I offered an amendment to the 9/11 bill that would strip this provision, my colleague Claire McCaskill (D-MO) offered a competing measure that would gut my proposal. In an illuminating give and take between myself and Senator McCaskill, I challenged my colleague's assertion that her amendment did not hurt national security."

"Because the McCaskill amendment purported to suspend collective bargaining rights during times of "emergency" I wondered whether my colleague thought the Global War on Terror would be considered an emergency. She said no. I also wondered, because her amendment suspended collective bargaining after the identification of a "newly imminent threat," if she considered al Qaeda a "newly imminent threat." Again, she said no."

1 comment:

ProgressiveVet said...

We would appreciate Senator Demint’s comments… if they are truly sincere, however, it appears to just be more bipartisan palaver in the attempts of one upmanship in the language of the day that simply promotes fear and does nothing but continue to divide the country more than has occurred since the Civil War. We question his true motive in his statements.

We would ask Senator Demint about how he feels on the literal thousands and thousands of American truck driver jobs that will be lost in the North American Union plan that is another step of turning America into a third world, peasant class country by allowing Mexican truck drivers to transit the southern border to deliver foreign made products to its final destination all across America? We would also ask him how he believes that is not the largest of exposures in national security?

With the southern border being wide open, with genuine planning to open it further with Mexican labor from their interior, what does that say about the “real” concern of the Administration, and Senator Demint, for national security? That would lead us to think that others shouldn’t be concerned either, right?

If the infrastructure that is planned by the North American Union goes forward, it will be the last nail in the coffin of American manufacturing, not to mention all the ancillary jobs of the service industry such as transportation. Senator Dement needs to go do a little more homework on national security, and Senator McCaskill needs to stand up and speak her mind a little louder.

Bottomline… Demint and the other fear mongers can’t have it both ways. They need to make up their minds on whether to continue the propaganda of fear, or are they going to protect the sovereignty of America? His comments are an insult to intelligence.