WHAT HAVE WE BECOME
Because denying those at the bottom of the pyramid the dignity of access to the options and benefits available to other workers is the hallmark of the woebegone, elitist G. Walker administration.
More:
President Bush will veto the proposed Sept. 11 reform bill if it is passed with language granting collective bargaining rights to airport passenger and baggage screeners employed by the Transportation Security Administration, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told GOP senators Tuesday.
Chertoff’s comments, at a private luncheon, were reported to United Press International by Sen. James DeMint, R-S.C., and confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security and a senior administration official authorized to speak to the media.
Chertoff “did make very clear that if the (Sept. 11) bill goes to the White House with the current provision related to TSA personnel authorities, his recommendation, and that of other senior administration officials, would be to veto it,” department Spokesman Russ Knocke [said]. Article
Shorter version: a government of posturing, warmongering, disdainful, self-righteous cretins.
…weep for the demise of American diplomacy and the simultaneous demise of any threadbare pretense that the Bush administration give a fig for anything or anyone but itself. Article
Highly related:
Thirty eight people believed to have been held in secret CIA prisons - or black sites - are missing, according to a report by a US human rights group. Article
