“Congressman, your white horse is waiting.”
Rep. John Mica (R., Fla.), one of the authors of the law establishing the federal Transportation Security Administration, called the attempted airline bombing last week “a serious wakeup call” and urged the Congress to change its method of choosing TSA administrators.
“There has been no TSA administrator for nearly a year and the next one will be the fifth in eight years. Running a security agency with a revolving door is a recipe for failure,” Mica said Monday in a press release. He is the ranking Republican of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation from 2001 to 2007.
He also called TSA “an agency that is ineptly led from Washington, D.C., by a top-heavy, well-paid headquarters staff of 3,200 with an average annual salary of $103,000.”
“And that influence and that budget shall be mine! Mine! BWAHahahaha! Mine is an evil laugh!”
> “And that influence and that budget shall be mine! Mine!”
“…or my deadbeat brother-in-law’s …”