Saturday, May 10, 2008

We now know that Republicans don't like Motherhood

And if we had been watching Friday, we would have seen that Republicans don't want airline safety either. Yup, the Goddamn Old Phuckers voted to block the airline safety bill in the Senate. And what now has to wait until next year?
-Inaction also will delay the agency's plan to modernize the air traffic control network by replacing radar with a satellite system.

-The Federal Aviation Administration now won't have the money to hire more air traffic controllers, who safety advocates said are overworked and under stress.

=The FAA bill included an "airline passenger bill of rights" to ensure decent treatment for people stuck on grounded planes. Among the "rights": access to fresh water, food and clean restrooms in the event of long delays.

-Another casualty was an attempt by Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri to include a provision that would have demanded tougher FAA oversight of overseas airline repair stations.

In a report a few years ago, the FAA's inspector general said that the agency performed little scrutiny over the overseas repair stations even as airlines were increasingly using the stations to do everything from minor repairs to overhauls.
Friendly skies, maybe. Safe skies, ask your Republican senator.

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