Wampum

The Airspace Data Interchange Network Outage made the WaPo today. When Chellie Pingree last ran for the Senate, six years ago, hot on the heels of 9-11 and all the social capital the incumbent party held, because in times of war, partisanship stops at the water's edge, unless of course the incumbent is off chasing moonbats, as we had just a few months after that election, I wrote material. How to run on defense, against an incumbent on Homeland Security, how to run against the "thin eggshell", known to its promoters as "forward defense". Spend on deep defense, stuff like redundant capacity, cause, infrastructure here is better than armor there, shit happens, and armor isn't going to stop Atta gang copy-cat operations.

It wasn't OBL, and it wasn't "dark skies", but yesterday was one failure away from "its raining airplanes", and that's where sending trillions of dollars to West Asia shows up, along with things like Interstate Bridges falling into rivers, and other "deferred spending".

If Dave Axelrod gang has sense, they'll get failing air traffic management, and Ronald Reagan's mass firing of all Federal ATC workers worked into the speech, so that all those fight-capable demographic bottoms in all those TSA-managed-queues and price-hiked luggage-and-meals-now-charged-seats will have something to think about. Like landing.