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MineralMan wrote: ("more correctly, Bush 'caved' in a compromise with the Dems to force the security agents to be govt employees") Hello. Bush had a GOP Congress, not a Dem Congress. He didn't cave. He was behind the TSA stuff all the way.

Bush never expresses an opinion either way on this.

This bill was passed so overwhelmingly that a veto would have been over-ridden rapidly and by a wide margin.

The same situation applied to the farm bill which was enacted into law at about the same time.

[MineralMan]

"This bill was passed so overwhelmingly that a veto would have been over-ridden rapidly and by a wide margin.

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That's true, and it was passed by both parties, almost unanimously. I don't remember Bush fighting it, either. Not a word. You can't blame the Dems for this, no matter how lousy they are. Everyone did this TSA thing.