President B.O. and his political appointees have been agitating to unionize the TSA since January 2009. In Senate testimony last December, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano told Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., that she supported collective bargaining for the TSA, even after DeMint noted that every previous DHS administrator had opposed it on security grounds. This suggests that Napolitano's primary concern is not security, but rather keeping Obama's union allies -- who contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to him and his party -- in line for the 2012 campaign.

If each of the TSA's 50,000 employees pays $50 a month, that's $30 million a year in new dues revenue that will likely go to one of the two large federal employee unions vying to represent the TSA, the American Federation of Government Employees or the National Treasury Employees Union. Between them, AFGE and NTEU represent about 750,000 federal workers. The AFGE is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, which joined forces with the Service Employees International Union to spend $88 million electing Democrats in the midterms. The NTEU's Political Action Committee spent $577,597 in the 2010 election cycle, 97 percent of which went to Democrats. If the TSA unionizes, Democratic campaign coffers will get richer at the expense of national security, and it will no longer be merely a figure of speech to claim that federal bureaucrats have taxpayers by the genitals.