Thought for the day...

[doc_quixote]

Given this [cnn.com], I would like to ask the government to stop trying to make the teabaggers mainstream. (Incidentially: Pistole is the same guy who commented that most travellers felt safer following their gaterape experience.)

Comments

[akilika]

I hate to ask, but could you unpack this a little more? :) I don't really get the connection, from what you've posted here.

[doc_quixote]

Sure. A growing number of airports do not want to deal with the TSA (for a multitude of reasons, some probably quite good).

Private screeners have been pretty consistently assessed at being on par with their TSA counterparts (this is not, by the way, a good thing).

TSA Director Pistole has decided that no more airports can go private, apparently "just because".

The teabaggers are of the stated opinion that as many government functions as possible should be privatized (and I acknowledge there's a wide variety of views on where "as possible" falls). In this case, the knee-jerk reaction actually seems pretty mainstream and fairly reasonable.

I'm annoyed that the feds are doing stupid stuff, especially when it both feeds biases and probably would not affect the lives of many people (very nearly all of the TSA screeners in airports that privatized would end up working for the contractor).