There I was this morning, watching a Today segment about tougher new airport screening procedures. A clip rolled of Homeland Security honcho Janet Napolitano talking about the program when, suddenly I said to myself: wait a second! Who’s that standing behind Napolitano?
Darned if it wasn’t . . . Patrick Kennedy! You remember good old Rep. Kennedy: the fellow who a few years ago . . . shoved a 58-yr. old airport security screener when she tried to stop him from barging through without submitting his oversized bag to x-ray screening .
So what was Kennedy doing there? Then it clicked: Patrick must be Janet’s poster boy—Exhibit A of the kind of person, under the new plan, who will be subjected to extra screening, maybe even put on a no-fly list!
But no . . .
Turns out Napolitano announced the new program while in Rhode Island, touring areas ravaged by recent floods. Kennedy was there in his capacity as local congressman. Should have known that one Dem would “posterize” another! Even so, you might have thought that Kennedy would have been smart enough to find a way to keep himself out a photo op about tougher airport security
