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Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 | 2:49 p.m.
Dina Titus speaks during a meeting with the Las Vegas Sun editorial board on January 5, 2010.
WASHINGTON - Democratic Rep. Dina Titus on Thursday invited Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to visit Nevada and pressed her to remain vigilant in protecting hotels, resorts and other soft targets as the nation focuses its attention on air travel safety following the thwarted Christmas Day attack.
Titus was among House Democrats from the Homeland Security Committee who met with Napolitano for about an hour.
The Homeland Security secretary had faced criticism for being a no-show at last week’s committee hearing, drawing complaints from both sides of the political aisle when a deputy was sent in her place. The committee had set the hearing to investigate the attempted terror attack on a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.
Napolitano agreed Thursday to begin holding monthly meetings with committee Democrats to keep them better informed. She will appear before the full committee next week to discuss her department’s budget.
“I think she realized she needs to be the spokesman for the department, not somebody else,” Titus said.
Napolitano faced serious criticism after the Christmas Day incident when she suggested that the system worked, even though a passenger with an explosive device affixed to his underwear had been able to bypass security and board a plane.
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It is really simple...Napolitano should be fired.
If she believed the system "worked" then she is absolutely clueless and should be fired.
The system did not "worked" unless the success of the system is totally dependent on citizens jumping on a terrorist at the last second to save their own lives.
It is too important of a position to let somebody like that be in-charge.
Obama is proving to be big zero as a leader.
He punted on the "stimulus" to Pelosi/Reid which is not helping us except if you believe Cash-For-Clunkers is a pathway to recovery.
He punted on ObamaCare to Pelosi/Reid which they badly messed up and should have secured a bill in the summer.
Now, he does not have the balls to clean his own house. He should fire his chief-of-staff, Holder and this bag lady Napolitano.
The world thinks he is a pushover.
Republicans are pushing him over.
Our enemy in the world is pushing him over.
Putin, China and Iran believes Obama is one big pussy cat.
"Napolitano agreed Thursday to begin holding monthly meetings with committee Democrats to keep them better informed."
Just another example of an administration that refuses to understand that there are more then DEMS in our congress!
Is Napolitano AFRAID to meet with Independents and Republican at the same time or are they not worthy of her time and being "better informed"?
Why doesn't Dina invite I.C.E. to our lovely city? They'd find enough to keep them busy for quite a while.
Not making any points with this one Dina! Janet is a big joke!!!
Secretary Janet Napolitano was probably told by Obama - you can't go to Vegas and spend the tax payers money. Maybe you could meet her in Baker ?
After the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing, all Federal buildings were outfitted with strong concrete structures in front of their doors, to prevent truck bombs from being driven into them.
California didn't bother to protect its Capitol building, and several years later a deranged tractor trailer truck driver drove his semi up the steps of the State Senate, and literally into the State Senate side of the building.
After this week's car-driving-into-the-casino-event at the Edgewater, it seems appropriate to remind all resorts in Las Vegas that it is very important to protect hotel and casino entrances by engineered barriers similar to those used at Federal buildings. It seems to me that an important economic stimulus/national security project our two Congresswomen could lobby Secretary Napolitano for is money to protect the thousands of American tourists who frequent the Strip and Downtown.
"Napolitano agreed Thursday to begin holding monthly meetings with committee Democrats to keep them better informed."
palidinlv, you hit the nail right on the head. Is everything about politics with these people in DC? This is outrageous.
What is she going to do while she is here?
Is she going to go to the ICE office and tell them to do their jobs and get over to UMC and detain the illegals raping our hospital?
I sincerely doubt it, because I do not think there is an ICE office here in town, as since nobama took over and this ex-governor of Arizona, who by the way, the residents of Arizona were more than glad to see her go, because of her tenure not a single bill that restricted illegals in Arizona were approved by her that came from the State House.
We had to implement ballot proposals that forced her by virtue of the ballots receiving at least 77% of the approval of citizens to stop illegals from getting state welfare, state funding for college as an in-state resident, and many, many other ballots proposals which we found out, that was the only way we could force her into doing anything about illegals.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/napol...
The above is the link to the Dec terrorists and the stupidity of the DHS secretary in not responding, in fact she stayed in San Francisco when it happened at a gay bar there.
Then she allowed her TSA supervisor to get reamed by Congress because he also stayed on holiday skiing while this all was happening. No one went back to the District of Criminals to take charge!
I hope she remembers that she called all of us veterans terrorists, as well as the pro-lifers, as we will be glad to see you and help you to a warm welcome here like we are planning for nobama!
Titus is history, she is going to get a federal retirement for life now, all you have to do is serve one term in Congress and you are set up for life! So she has hers and I hope she chokes on it!
This meeting will be just like the blind leading the blind.
Neither Titus or Napolitano knows much about security, I guess I would be safe saying that Titus knows NOTHING about it and Napolitano doesn't know much about it.
We're living in a moment of time that will be recorded in our History books. No longer can, or will, these Politicians try their little manipulation games like this to gain votes. That goes for Titus and Reid. Too little too late! Keep up the drum beat Voters! An Independant.
Nappy doesn't even show up for a congressional hearing and Dina Taxes wants to give her credibility. Did Titus invite her before or after the vote today to raise the debt ceiling. Guess how Dina voted. Cap and Taxes.
Las Vegas needs to be vigilant because it's a prime target for terrorists. No unattended vehicles should be allowed anywhere near the buildings. Barriers should be erected, no seriously folks we are VULNERABLE!!
Perhaps Napo should heed her bosses advice not got to Vegas?
Actually, after Harry and Dina are f---ed in Nov. they can all go back to college, as far as I'm concerned.
Napalitano coming to Las Vegas is ludicrous. Excessive homeland security funding here is reprehensible. Intelligence shows the targets are not hotels with a worldwide population. The targets are concentrations of Americans. Overseas the bomb sites have been American occupied hotels. That does not translate to hotels in America. Las Vegas' hotels are majorally occupied by a worldwide population.
The problem here is that Napolitano is a joke and Dina doesn't know this.
yourrightlasvegas :
Your comment is utterly ridiculous! Las Vegas is a prime target. Don't fool yourself.
What would be a liberal fix to Nepolitano's problem.... I know, create another branch of government and poor billions more into it.
As for Dina, she acknowledged her own vulnerability. Frankly, I was surprised she figured that out.
Out of curiosity, have any of you been able to speak to you representative?
We want to generate tourism not hamper by having more idiots from the Democratic Party visit Vegas. Just what we don't need is more infestation from these lunatics into our once great city. When will these elected officials realize that by them visiting here and drawing attention to them being here is causing more harm than good to our economic recovery?
I would ask that all liberals just pack their bags and leave Vegas, you've done enough damage and none of you are welcome here anymore. From the tokens to the freeloaders you promote have drained us dry and we quite frankly can't afford to support your sick pathetic choices anymore. You've forced fed us long enough and we're done.