Comments on: Report: "High Risk" Of Runway Disaster

Congressional Study Says FAA Has Slipped Badly On Efforts To Prevent Collisions

[jandj6488]

Do our congressional leaders have to politicize everything? According to the report, incidents'' peaked in 2001. That means they''d been rising in the years prior to that, and they are now less than they were in 2001. Yet somehow Bush is to blame. How did the incidents'' rise during the 90''s? No doubt most of the readers on this blog will scream, "That Republican Congress!" Yet Clinton also could have vetoed their lack of funding.

Is there a democrat in this country more interested in leadership than scoring political points against Bush? This is a serious issue, demanding more than just political posturing.

Why does it always take a horrible tragedy for the political blame game to end?

[myidoncbs]

"This report [GAO, the Government Accountability Office] makes clear that the Bush administration is cutting corners and failing to put passenger safety first."

Bush has to cut SOMETHING to pay for his many wars: The war on Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the imaginary "war on terror", the war against the Constitution, the war against privacy, the war for Blackwater profits, etc.

gkayser says, "Congress is the body that provides funding for the FAA. Any lack of funding is the fault of Congress. Perhaps, that is why Congress''s approval rating is lower that the President''s." Perhaps he failed to notice that the presdent and his party will not allow anything that the majority party wants to enact. If the democrats want to pass something, Bush will veto it. If they want to over-ride the veto, the repugs won''t cooperate. Do you think that just maybe THAT might be why congress hasn''t done anything useful?

[noaanhc]

I am a very proud State of Maine Liberal.Our nation is slowly going down hill.The threat to air safety is very real,but do to tax cut after tax cut by the hard core republicans and a attitude in America of me, myself,and to hell with everyone else,then it is only just a matter of time when we read and watch the evening news about hundreds dead after 2 planes collide on an airport runway.

[usayesterday]

The FAA is suffering from shortages of personnel and shortages in budget to repair, replace, and upgrade the grossly aged equipment that oversee our air travel safety. Safety records in the past few years have only demonstrated the skill of the pilots in those planes as well as pure luck that has avoided many potentially catastrophic disasters. All of these recent reports begs the question, "is the next disaster going to involve the plane you are on?!"

It sickens me that there are some Americans who feel their tax cuts are vastly more important than the safety of EVERYBODY who flies in U.S. airspace today!

To all of the "more tax cuts and less government" Neo-Conservatives...

...I hope you are all on that "next" plane!

[michaelt302]

Hey, a mouse got into my cupboard last night and destroyed 2 boxes of cereal. It''s Bush''s fault!!!!
(LOL you libs have NOOOOOOO idea how stupid and infantile you sound. None at all. Bush this, and Bush that. Fu*cking broken record.)

[gkayser]

"Not blaming Bu$h, but this happened on his watch... "

Ultimately,the responsibility falls upon those that voted him into office. If you did not vote,you have no one to blame but yourself.If you did vote for him,you still have only yourself to blame.
As for Iraq,Congress voted approval for the military action. The blame for Iraq lays at the feet of all the Congress people that voted to give the President the authority to start things.

[bareemperor]

Not blaming Bu$h, but this happened on his watch...

[gkayser]

Congress is the body that provides funding for the FAA. Any lack of funding is the fault of Congress. Perhaps, that is why Congress''s approval rating is lower that the President''s.

[cdfoxtrot]

Another casualty of the moron-in-chief''s focus on the wrong issues. If even a tiny proportion of taxpayer funds that are being p1ssed away on the illegal war were directed at this issue, there wouldn''t be a problem to write about. The list is long, but this is nothing more than another item to add to the long list of failures of the worst US president in history.

[hungry1968]

Which political hack is in charge of the FAA?

Was he a director of the "American Quarter Horse Association"?

Or maybe it is "no foreign policy experience" US ambassador John Bolton?

Maybe it''s "I helped create the Iraq war" Paul Wolfowitz, who went to head the World Bank even though he had no banking experience?