What Do I Like Most About Republicans?

When they are in a hole, they just keep digging:

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said today that the President's nomination for head of the TSA concerns him because it shows that "the President is more focused on coming through with a campaign promise to the unions rather than keeping Transportation Security focused on the real security of American passengers."

DeMint appeared on CBS today and responded to criticism from Democrats over his hold on Obama's nomination to the TSA's top post, Errol Southers.

DeMint said that he's "not trying to block" the vote, he just wants "debate and a vote because the stated goal of the president and Secretary Napolitano is to submit our airport security to collective bargaining. This is something that has been prohibited since the agency was formed because it takes away the flexibility that we need to continually upgrade."

Obviously, if a Democrat had tried to delay the confirmation of one of George W. Bush's national security nominees, he or she would have been crucified -- not only by the GOP, but by the so-called liberal media as well. But DeMint has been getting away with this for quite some time -- thanks in no small part to the fact that the Democrats are weak and they let him get away with it -- so it is good to finally see him catching some criticism. Too bad it took a failed terrorist attack to really bring DeMint's bullshittery into the light.

Don't forget that this is the same guy who said earlier in the year that "[i]f we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him. . . ." DeMint has since tried (unsuccessfully) to distance himself from that statement, but as far as the Democrats are concerned, he is a gift that keeps on giving. The Dems just need to get better at using this gift.