[Southack]

"Bush federalized airline security - he allowed the government to take over a private industry! Even Sean Hannity admitted failure. Newsmax.com Commentary - President George W. Bush must be preoccupied with overseas strategy, because he has allowed his administration to take a politically disastrous position against the arming of airline pilots."

Newsmax got it wrong. The first provision to ARM PILOTS was in the bill that federalized (read: government took over) airport security workers.

Either Bush could have been anti-gun by vetoing that bill, or Bush could have been claimed to have been nationalizing entire industries by his numerous critics, but no rational person would claim that he was BOTH, since the two things were IN THE SMAE BILL!

[Republican_Strategist]

Nice to see someone trying to pretend to be a conservative - justifying government taking over private industry. At least it armed pilots to some degree, you say.