GOP senator:(Susan Collins) Bush may veto antiterror bill if it lets airport screeners unionize

[sabra]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070227-1306-congress-security.html

GOP senator: Bush may veto antiterror bill if it lets airport screeners unionize

WASHINGTON – President Bush probably would veto a Sept. 11 antiterrorism bill if it includes a Democratic-sponsored provision to let federal airport screeners unionize, a Republican senator said Tuesday.

“The president's message on the bill is going to come out tomorrow. I think that it will contain a veto threat on the TSA collective bargaining position,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said, referring to the Transportation Security Administration.

Collins said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told her of the impending veto threat.

A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[gratuitous]

1. More to be feared than any terrorist

A worker with a union card! Blllaaaaahhhh!!

Be very, very afraid.

[saigon68]

2. K & R

[sakabatou]

16. The terror that wants to protect its workers in the night

and any other time of th day! BWAHAHAHAH!

[Fridays Child]

3. George Bush hates the American workers upon whose backs he and his...

...ilk have made their fortunes.

[originalpckelly]

4. And why can't they unionize if they feel like they want to?

Seriously, why the fuck shouldn't they be able to?

[rodeodance]

6. Cause bush wants 'flexibility"---the are NOT allowed to unionize. Recall

the big fight last time. (repugs bush won)-------this time dems put in this provision------or maybe it is an amendment.

[hootinholler]

19. Because one of the points of forming the DHS was

to get rid of those pesky unions.

-Hoot

[PDJane]

5. It appears that this is yet another battle

That will have to be fought all over again.

Bush and his ilk have their place in the history books as an abject lesson in how to ruin a country and a political process.

[BayCityProgressive]

7. Does he not realize

he lost both houses and has a 30% approval rating? He needs to fucking sign what we give him.

[Ignacio Upton]

8. He did this same shit in 2002 with the Homeland Security bill

That was on the eve of the 2002 midterms, and he accused US of blocking the creation of a Homeland Security Department, even though he said he would veto our version of a bill, and was initially opposed to creating a DHS in the first place. The concept of a DHS is a good one, but the way that Bush set it up is a disaster.

[Straight Shooter]

11. Max Cleland was flayed and crucified by the right wing for standing up for the workers.

He was called a traitor and weak on terrorism. Cleland supported the Homeland Security agency from the beginning. He opposed bush's attempts to strip civil service protections -- the same protections afforded to every Fed. Govt. agency, including DoD -- from the new agency.

What will we hear from the right wing now? A chorus of crickets.

[Ignacio Upton]

15. The best strategy is to strike first

We need to put it plainly that Bush is obstructing our efforts at fightings Al Qaida.

[Benhurst]

9. What other sweet nothings did he whisper in your shell-like ear,

Susan?

The elections are coming. Time for an old ho-dog to learn some new tricks.

[MaineDem]

10. Let him veto it

And, Susan, your moment in the sun is about to end.

[w4rma]

12. I agree. Let him veto it and let the GOP explain his veto. I agree on Collins, too.

And do it again, and again, and again, and again.

That fake moderate needs to be ousted in 2008.

[marmar]

13. Gawd I hate these people....

The Bush family and Republicans have brought us nothing but misery.

[rocktivity]

14. Bring it on, George!

It's your party's funeral--EVERTHING you veto will be just another nail in the GOP '08 coffin!

:headbang:
rocknation

[rodeodance]

18. yeah

[The Count]

17. Unions - the real enemy!

[KamaAina]

20. The campaign ads just write themselves

Bush** morphing into bin Laden as "Bush Vetoed Anti-Terror Bill", then "Bush and the Republicans: Helping the Terrorists Win" flash below.

edit; bolding

[paulk]

21. the Senate needs to call his bluff on this

let him veto it....

and we'll see how well that plays for the Republicans in 2008.

[EndElectoral]

22. Is Gw checking into outsourcing the screeners? How could any Union person vote Repub?

[Jack Rabbit]

23. Let him veto and be damned

Bush has never taken the war on terrorism seriously. It is for him nothing more than a convenient excuse to invade Iraq and rip the Bill of Rights to shreds.

There should have been a war on al Qaida, but Bush didn't fight one. Instead, he funds al Qaida now.

[truthisfreedom]

24. Veto it then.

[Raine]

25. Showing how much chimp REALLY cares

about the American public's safety by vetoing it...GO AHEAD and show everyone, asshole!

[depakid]

26. When is Maine going to get rid of their sorry Republicans?

It amazes me that a sensible state continues to re-elect Collins and Snow.