Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., hopes to win today by losing. He is leading Republican efforts to prevent the nation’s airport screeners and other employees of the Transportation Security Administration from gaining collective bargaining rights.

The Senate is scheduled to take up DeMint’s amendment today, which would strip collective bargaining rights for TSA workers from broader legislation implementing all the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission.

Charlotte Observer

This shouldn’t even need debating as it is simple common sense.  You don’t limit TSA’s capability of effectively managing their workers when you need to have a flexible game plan to adjust to the ever changing tactics of terrorists.  The fact that the Democrats seem to be solidly behind this tells me that they care more about money flowing into their coffers from big unions than they do about the security of the American people in our skies.  Pretty damn shameful.