The Rest of the Story: Southers appointment is about unionizing 50,000 people and collecting their "donations" to the Democrat Party.

Erroll Southers is a high-up administrator in Homeland Security at LAX. He was nominated by Mr. Obama to head the Transportation Security Administration, a 50,000 non-unionized government agency.

A day after being approved by a Senate committee (November 19 ) , he wrote a letter confessing that he had lied to that committee, expressing regrets for the misinformation and the illegal actions that lie covered up. The lie? Twenty years ago, he initiated an illegal search of the criminal history of a boyfriend to the woman he was dating , later to become his wife.

The Senate committee has reviewed this letter and is "satisfied" with the man's confession and explanation. Apparently there is no one else that Obama can appoint to this post. We are about to have a TSA leader who can be compromised and is proven willing to violate the law to get things done. Twenty years ago is not the issue, here. Since then, we can assume that he has gotten better at doing this kind of "surveillance." Who could prove us wrong in this statement? Again, we ask, "Is there no one else; someone above reproach or, are all of Obama's selections as compromised as he is?"

An additional issue is the fact that Southers is a union man. His appointment signals the beginning of union control of this security agency. Pay will increase, benefits will multiply and discipline will become problematic with the advent of this change. Most importantly, this union will become yet another donor to the Marxist Democrat machine.

In a recent CNN report, a union president made this statement: Now "the question of bargaining rights at TSA is not a matter of 'if' but 'when,' " said John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, in a statement applauding the choice. "We are confident that the appointment of Mr. Southers as administrator will help put that matter to bed." So there you have it, 50,000 employees will suddenly become donors to the Democrat Party cause. That is what this appointment is all about. One Black Marxist in need money appointing another Black Marxist type in an effort to solve that problem.

Obama is looking forward to the 2012 elections. He collected 3/4 of a trillion dollars to win the '08 election by just 7% of the vote. That sum of money was nearly triple the previous record amount spent in any presidential election. He knows that he must spend that much or more - he sees the size of the 2012 opposition developing and knows that he will need revenues to run the campaign and pay for votes (ala ACORN). What he cannot control, however, is the number and level of enthusiasm of his "civilian army." That is his real problem. Expect to see Obama say and do things to attract a voting base equal to or larger than the base he had in 2008. He ran as a moderate but has governed as a radical Leftist. We look for him to attempt a correction to this impression. This is exactly why he has deserted the Left on the war issue. If he is perceived as weak on national defense, he cannot win reelection. We do not assume he will be successful in this strategy, but such will be an important consideration in the mind of Obama as time draws near for the next political war. 2010 will not be the battle ground for Obama as much as the 2012.

Now you know.

J Smithson
Editor
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