Erroll Southers, the nominee to head the TSA, has been in the news a lot lately because of the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day. As I pointed out yesterday, Southers nomination has been held up in the Senate because of Jim DeMint.

But DeMint isn’t the only one to blame here. We also must look at President Obama himself. Obama didn’t nominate someone to head the TSA until September, almost 8 months after taking office. I’m all for bashing DeMint as much as possible, but we need to be fair about this and place some of the blame on Obama himself.