There is only one solution to transportation security. Free the airlines from counterproductive federal regulations and let each airline decide upon their own security procedures, both in the air and in their terminals.
Let the travelling public decide whether they want to fly Mineta Airlines where little old ladies are strip searched and nail files are confiscated, or on one where effective security, not whitewash, is in effect.
All Bush has done is to make an effective solution that much harder.
Really? How would you set that system up logistically at, say, Minneapolis/St. Paul airport? There are approximately 11 airlines with their ticket counters and gate access in the same terminal, and approximately four to six operational security checkpoints. So, RealConservative Airlines has no 2nd Amendment/4th Amendment violating security apparatus at all, and Northwest requires X Ray of all baggage and overgarments, all laptops and briefcases, entry through a metal detector and random or targeted wand sweeps of the passenger's body. So, I buy a ticket on a Northwest 747 flight to Beijing, but I want to blow the plane up or shoot up the cabin and that's not convenient given Northwest's anal security intrusions. Hey, I'll buy a one way ticket on RealConservative Airlines too, waltz through THEIR free pass entrance, toss their ticket and proceed to my Northwest gate flush with my goodies of death.
The system works pretty damned well. Get in line, wait your turn, and comply with the requests of the security staff who have a thankless job. Take a look at families in a 1933 soup line or men queued five blocks long for a day laborer job and quit your bitching.