December 27, 2009 02:00 PM
DeMint: 'Unionization' a threat to airport security
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A Republican senator from South Carolina has used the attempted attack on a airplane bound for Detroit as an excuse to voice opposition to unions. Sen. Jim DeMint told Fox News' Chris Wallace that unionization was a threat to airport security because collective bargaining prevents flexibility.
"We have to outthink the terrorists and when we formed the airport security system, we realized we could not use collective bargaining and unionization because of that need to be flexible. Yet, that appears to be the top priority now of the administration," DeMint said Sunday.
And the rest of the republicans are a threat to the sanity of the world.
Yep, that's all the repugs got folks. Fire the airport security Bush hired. Reaganomics will cure those damn Yemeni territs.
These repugs should be kicked out of the capitol, kicked down the halls, kicked down the steps, kicked down the street and all their teeth kicked out.
If it wasn't so pathetic, these repugs would be a howl.
a lose connection between the republican grey matter of conservatives and the truth...They are making a good case for testing in the election of the congress!
Unions are a small time problem compared with the raging ignorance and hypocrisy of the GOP. Need more proof that your party is in the tank?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/26/...
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
DeMint is one of the single most vile, cruel, vicious, hard-hearted, amoral SOB's in all the known universe.
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WTF??
Let's see if we can now tie what is a pretty pathetic attempt at terrorism (I can just see al Qaeda sitting in their caves around the television wincing with embarrassment over this one) to anything else the right doesn't like.
Why stop at unions? Let's find a way to drag in abortion, homosexuality, health care, taxes, and Christmas! Let's not forget Christmas! It's all the fault of unionising gay liberals raising taxes to pay for Santa's health insurance so Mrs Santa can have abortions!
Yeah, that makes about as much sense, too...
You left out gun control.
Another one from mostoffensivevideos.com:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=eVMKBOANOc0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
That was the funniest thing I've seen or heard in a long time.
Doood. That was so politically incorrect.
Peppermint Patties tackle box.ROTFLMAO!!!
Oh man.
I'm out. Niners are on. hasta.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Indeed.
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Look at this guy - he's already starting to shrivel up. He's turning into a raisin. I guess mean people scrunch all their meanness up in their face and wear it like an article of clothing.
And it poisons their system and they just keep getting meaner and meaner.
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... what I thought. Look at DeMint's face. It's the kind of face neocon's make when they're lying and manipulating. Which is a permanent state for these bastards.
Really, are they trying to out stupid each other today? What the hell happened over the holiday that brought out the total insanity of these idiots?
laced their alcholic beverages with some really bad drugs. I don't mean bad drugs, I mean some shit of such poor quality, the worst addicted wouldn't touch them.
they'll have Obama reprinted in history books to have been in office during 9/11 before they're through.
"We" inherited a deficit from President Clinton.
Gee, and here I am thinking that Saint Ronald of the Monster Deficit was responsible for what Clinton had to clean up.
Terry C - NJ
DeMint wants the Walmartization of airport secutrity.
Let's see, if we pay airport security people less than a living wage and work them all hours they're sure to be more effective at spotting potential risks. Why? Because without unions, they're in fear of losing their jobs, so naturally will work harder.
Y'gotta love that old-time Southern massa-slave mentality. DeMint obviously does. Since he's still in government, seems a lot of his voters do, too.
Even the MSM noted that the latest dumb-bomber has a daddy who is a bank vice-president or equivalent, and his brain-dead boy was living large before the bust.
I'd bet my tiny paycheck that airport security personnel from Lagos to Amsterdam and beyond were bribed. A decent union paycheck and fair treatment on the job might have made the security personnel more apt to do their job instead of selling out for an airhead brandishing his Benjamin at them.
are happier, better trained and would be more apt to stop terrorists. One example would be border patrol agent at Port Angelos Wa. in 1999.
Do airports take out life insurance policies on its employees? Lax security would certainly be explained.
Buffoon
republicans are the NATIONAL SECURITY party, they will fix everything, right?
Is there something in the water and the dirt in that fucking state or what? Is this asshole one of those "C Street" dickheads?
When you give up part of your fancy salary, your health benefits, and your pension, then, you asshole, maybe, just maybe, I might be willing to listen to your piehole.
Until then STFU! I can hardly wait until we find out about YOUR C-Street bimbo eruption! Or, will it involve CSI teams finding out who killed the goats he fellated? This enquiring mind wants to know...
Neither this clown, Hok, or King would ever be confused with one of the "Three Wise Men." Not one of them would play a wise man in some cousin-marrying, 'squeel-like-a-hog,' backwater town Baptist Elementary School pageant.
I suppose that Senator DeMint feels more secure having security handled by contractors who hire their employees for minimum wage and who are working on airport security only until they can find something better. Brilliant idea!
James DeMint who was in Honduras conferring with the illegal coup plotters without State Department recognition or authorization and thus in defiance of the law.
Unfortunately the State Department couldn't follow its own lead as far as putting down the coup plotters and the sham election that followed.
The Secret Government of the United States is the foremost sponsor of State Terrorism in the world.
50 democratically elected governments overthrown in 60 years plus 30 liberation movements crushed.
Roughly one a year.
DeMint should be in jail, he should have lots of company.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
DR: demento-funny farm
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
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"In theory theory and practice are alike. In practice they are very different."
you can't write a union contract that allows job flexibility right. It's in the constitution somewhere isn't it?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
What we are watching is the lying Fascist Sen. Jim DeMint, the lying evil extremist Fox News, and the lying suckface Chris Wallace PROMOTING Republican/Conservative Terrorism!!!
Why is this terrorism? Because they use lies, hate, fear and violence to promote their extremist agenda of the higher 'Profit Margin'.
Did DeMint get around to mentioning that by de unionizing he could then OUTSOURCE the security jobs and make a bigger profit. To hell with security, safe working conditions and fair pay is the mantra for these Republican/Conservative Terrorists. Long live the almighty $$$ Buck $$$! is what they live and breath for...
You saw how fast the Dims/WhiteHouse shot down EFCA, right?
If Unions were ever to prosper, they'd become the locus around which a true "Labor" party might coalesce. If the Murkin "working class" (see alice's brilliant post the other day) were to organize politically, they would be a potent political force...
And that the Owners could NEVER permit...
Gitmo to appease terrorists? Wonder where Demented got that idea?
Same place as most of their utterances, straight out of their ass.
The Real News: State of the Unions Pt1
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
to the destruction of the civil rights of the working class. Without unions to help the working class organize political and form a force to counteract the corporations and the rich, the working class will be enslaved. Right now, the unions are pretty weak and the Republicans are worried that they may gain power before they are in control again. They figured they are pretty closed to finishing the unions all they need is another term or two in power but they need to keep them weak.
I'm just surprised that everyone is so surprised.
It's a well known fact that terrorism and pedophilia are the root passwords to the Constitution (I'm paraphrasing here).... Opportunistic people are going to seize on terrorism as an excuse to get their way, much in the same way McCarthy got rid of political opponents by tarring them as communists.
Same shit, different day.
Just shut up ya whiny ass capitalist. Get new material. You elitists have been spewing the same BS for 100 years.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Behold! A repulsive, repugnant Republican opportunist.
Quelle surprise...
that these a**holes can tell the world what bigoted, a**hats they are, and somehow get the same people they insult at every turn to keep voting for them. Unbeleivable, but true. In your face Americano's, you absolutely need these smooth talkin' Repub's back in power in 2010. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Has anyone fact-checked DeMint's allegation that the Obama administration is attempting to unionize airport security workers?
.. or did DeMint just make this up?
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
the president, any president, has no say in the matter other than his personal opinion which carries as much weight as mine I don't see that it needs to be fact checked.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I'm thinking possibly DeMint is referring to the Employee Free Choice Act - which Obama enthusiastically backed during the campaign, but has the Unions grumbling he's done nothing about since he took office.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Unions which have been silent for years are down here in carpet country calling on workers. This coincides with the first ad for general hiring I've seen in 2 years, probably to bring new, long-unemployed, impoverished rural workers in to bust organizing efforts.
Dear Republican senator from South Carolina,
Care to foot the bill for better TSA employees? Didn't think so... STFU and GBTW.
And thought, I'm not going to be out buffooned by that imbecile, I'll fix his Yankee ass right now! Nobody out stupids me!
And then Peter King weighed in---it's a three way slugfest for the title of most demented moran. Right now it's too close to call. Stay tuned, we understand Michelle Bachmann may have a statement.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
I thought it was all those tax cuts for the rich in Bush's term that threatened airport security. Not to mention the Iraq war. Those billions could have been used to upgrade the nation's airport security systems doncha know. Next Sen. Demintted will be saying Medicaid and Medicare is a the threat to airport security.
For all of those who have stated that they will skip the Nov. 2010 elections because they are upset with Obama.....imagine how bad things will be with DeMint as chairman of the foreign relations committee.......hmmmm?
'Talk to the hand'
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Is it too late to let South Carolina secede?
Alabama, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Texas with them.
Terry C - NJ
I'm Texican.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
How do you pronounce the first two syllables of Alabama?
Don't let the red states secede. They require supervision. Sincerely, lifelong Dixie gal who loves liberty but hates cold.
How do you get better trained, more reliable employees: by paying lower salaries or higher salaries?
He's an idiot. Let's just put private companies in charge of teaching our kids. What will happen? They'll try to cut costs as much as possible. That means cutting wages and hiring less qualified people. Soon enough, those teachers will be fleeing teaching to get a higher paying job at Walmart. Good idea.
With the unions strong, there wouldn't be a GFC. When more people are making a living wage, that's more money flowing into the economy.
My father told me the same sort of thing regarding health insurance companies. They try to do cost/benefit analysis to determine which procedures work best. But they have no metrics for benefits, so they only pay for the cheapest chicken.
Much is the same issue with trusting any sort of essential services to unregulated capitalism. Left alone, these systems eventually result in one "winner" and a ton of "losers". The "winner" then adjusts the rules to keep potential opponents from coming into play (See DMCA, Sonny Bono Copyright Act, Microsoft buying off justice department investigations through the Bush Administration, etc for examples of this). Innovation is stifled, progress isn't made.
And that doesn't even touch on essential services. Privatizing those is stupid to the highest degree. And we've been living that stupid since the advent of the private insurance industry....
I can't think of any industry which has been substantially improved (and that includes consumer benefit) by privatizing.
when people worked 12 hours a day, six days a week for peanuts and no benefits.
I'm convinced you have to be a complete sociopath to be a Repugnican.
Terry C - NJ
Is he any relation to Dr. Demento?
I haaaate Dr. Demento....
(Give me King Biscuit Flower Hour anytime).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Isn't that a FRENCH name? Is he a frog? If so, he must be against all that is good, right, and Amurkin! He should never be allowed to speak in public again! He must be boycotted! Just ask Bill-O and all the other Foxes...
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'Talk to the hand'
What an asshat. These nitwits will use anything to get their anti-labor agenda enacted.
i'm beginning to think it might be time to restructure our bicameral legislature, it's gone beyond just the republicans. there's an incredible vortex of stupid in the senate and it's not confined to just one party.
Most of which would be happy to pay $2.50 and hour for 80 hours weeks if they could get away with it an put everything else in their own pockets.
t least you have got to give DeMento credit - he is absolutely consistently stupid. If it 1) doesn't put money in his pocket, 2) further the cause of majority rule over everything by the church, and 3) IF he doesn't get to run it then it's not relevant to him...
Two words for you Demento - BITE ME!!!
Typical evil lying scum Republican/Conservative Frame Job. 'Framing' Unions with Terrorist attacks...straight from the Rove playbook, sponsered by the Conservative Think Tanks, funded by Big Oil, Big Corperations, etc.
Fascism, Coorperate controlled goverment.
Democracy, People controlled goverment.
You decide...
NOT ONE REPUBLICAN has said anything intelligent about the FOILED attack!
NOBODY 2012
DeMint just created a sound-bite for his future run for president to try to show to people that he is a prescient candidate. A very transparent attempt too in my book. The very fact that his bringing up unions in the context of that discussion is the proof.
Yeah, I know what he's talking about! I hate when I call 911 and all of those union dispatchers, firefighters, police, and EMT's all drop whatever they're doing to respond to my personal emergency. The way they do it without hesitation or reservation and put their own lives on the line, day or night, is really dragging this country down. They could all stand to be a little more flexible.
Since the TSA contributes nothing to aviation security, how could unionization possibly make them less effective.
How soon they forget! The republicans have made so much political hay from 911 that one can only wonder why DeMInt would insult the memories of those brave first responders who answered the call to the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan that fateful day. Even the firemen and police officers who had just gotten off shift that morning responded to the crisis! Union Members All!
By making statements connecting unions to terrorist threats against this country and accusing unions of preventing the proper function of airport security shows his ignorance, his biases and his unnaturally low moral character! Demint should be hauled into the well of the Senate and made to apologize to the families of New York City's heroes and to first responders everywhere who put their lives on the line every day for us and who just happen to be, yes, members of unions!
The senator can kindly "GO TO HELL!"
He does realize that these airplanes do originate from outside the country where airport security is looked after by foreigners who are not in U.S. unions?
His logic does not make any sense whatsoever.
What do union members in the U.S. have to do with security personal and processes in Nigeria or Holland?
Classy. Reminds me of Gingrich's "This is the Clinton legacy." remark immediately after 9/11. The fact is it's pretty much been dumb luck that we have avoided another attack like this. We think we're the world leaders in fighting terrorism but in reality we can't tell a terrorist from the tooth fairy.
After the unions are gone from airport security what do you have? You have less good security than ever. Employees who have hours that are too long, who might work split shifts, and who work while sick because they have no sick days nor insurance are not paying attention. Employees who are badly treated do not do their jobs well as they are focused on their problems.
When Reagan refused to give air traffic controllers what they need it was a disaster.
On 9/11 almost every banker with a suit and tie was running from the danger, while real Americans carrying union cards in their pockets were running towards it.
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