Who's running the TSA? No one, thanks to Sen. Jim DeMint

WASHINGTON — An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration — if there were one.
Instead, the post remains vacant because Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has held up President Barack Obama's nominee in an effort to prevent TSA workers from joining a labor union.
DeMint, in a statement, said that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempted terror attack in Detroit "is a perfect example of why the Obama administration should not unionize the TSA."
Two Senate committees have given Obama's nominee, Erroll Southers, a former FBI special agent and a counterterrorism expert, their bipartisan blessing.
DeMint, however, has objected to a full Senate vote without a full debate, saying he wants additional testimony to clarify Southers' stand on unionizing the TSA, a shift that Democrats support. An acting administrator is in place at the TSA, the division of the Department of Homeland Security that oversees airport security.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., hadn't scheduled a floor vote for Southers before the Senate left town on Christmas Eve, and the Senate won't be back in session for another three weeks.
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