"I really believe that that is the place where we feel the most ill at ease, is going through airports,"...

Clyburn called for the Transportation Security Administration, which administers airport security checkpoints, to interact "a little better" with the Capitol Hill Police.

Noting that local law enforcement were installed outside his South Carolina home after the attack on Giffords, Clyburn said the House may need to "beef up the funding" for individual members' budgets so they can coordinate improved security arrangements with local police.

It sounds like he's calling for improved coordination and security at airports, where he believes Congressmen are most vulnerable, not special treatment for the sake of convenience.

If the honorable Rep were a Republican, I'd bet garbage to doornails that everyone from Limbaugh in the South to Beck in the North and Dennis Prager here on the Best Coast would be prating and  chiming in about the cost of political correctness, and of course, it's all Obama's fault.

"Out of touch?"

I needed a laugh this early in the morning.

Speaking of political correctness:

From philosoraptor(dot)blogspot(dot)com:

So, it looks like people are finally acknowledging that the problem with the contemporary right is not just the incivility of their rhetoric, but also the fact that it's rife with falsehood. That's good, but now some are saying, roughly, that incivility isn't the problem at all, it's just the rampant falsehoods. (I can dig up links, but am too lazy right now.) That's not true. Incivility is a problem, as is rampant falsehood. Both, however, are associated with a rather more fundamental problem--or so I'd argue--and that's roughly dogmatism. The strident dogmatism on the contemporary right makes people incapable of being even minimally objective about their own errors and biases. One consequence of this is that they end up with more false beliefs, since they're not objective about the evidence and not willing to abandon even their most flamboyantly false beliefs. Another consequence is that they are driven to view anyone who disagrees with them as stupid and evil. Dogmatism is a common problem, and it's extremely common in politics...but its rampant on the contemporary right. My view is that it's always rampant among political extremists, and it's the fact that the American right has moved farther right that accounts for their dogmatism. As you probably realize, the extreme left (which exists in the U.S. only on college campuses) can be every bit as strident and dogmatic as the extreme right...it's just that we don't have many far-lefties in American politics.

Yes, I really like Emmy Rossum's character, and her acting. I can really relate, though our family was not quite that extreme.