TSA Nominee Southers Withdraws

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Senator Jim DeMint claimed the Obama Administration's choice to lead the struggling Transportation Security Administration would try to unionize the TSA, placing the National Security role of the agency at risk. Erroll Southers was presented as one that would improve TSA's homeland security role considering his history as an FBI agent and homeland security specialist. Reports that Southers gave Congress and the White House misleading information regarding national security incidents a couple decades ago so that he may access a federal database to obtain information about his estranged wife's new boyfriend, which is being viewed as a possible violation of privacy laws, has forced Southers to withdraw his name from consideration for the TSA position.

Erroll Southers is accusing his critics, and their opposition to his nomination, as being motivated by "political ideology." It is as if Southers is unable to see the impact of his past actions on his nomination, and would rather do what leftists always do and just place the blame on partisan politics. Regardless, the troubles overshadowing his nomination apparently became too much of a distraction for Southers to continue as a nominee. Souther's withdrawal follows months of the TSA being leaderless, and a cascade of failed nominations by the Obama Administration to other agency leadership roles.

Souther's timing could not be more damaging, as this announcement comes directly after Scott Brown's Republican takeover of the Senate seat that once belonged to Teddy Kennedy. The avalanche of an eroding Democratic majority, and failed nominations by the Obama Administration, is a loud and clear message that the American People are rejecting the liberal agenda of the Democrats, and that the Democrat Party is not only unable to govern the nation, but can't even place appropriate people in the leadership roles of the various government agencies.

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Embattled TSA nominee Southers withdraws - The Washington Post