From this mornings CQ Roll Call:
NO SIR, THAT’S JUST A MONEYBOMB: The TSA may have picked the wrong senator for a full-on pat-down. Rand Paul is a member of the Homeland Security Committee, has a reputation for doggedness when it comes to defending civil liberties — and is eager to start distinguishing his own version of tea party Republicanism from that of his father (because the senator is already thinking about a presidential run four years from now, when his dad will be 80 and has promised to be out of public life). The senator says his experience at the Nashville airport yesterday — when he was prevented from getting on his first-choice flight after he triggered a magnetometer alarm and then refused to be touched by TSA agents — could spur him to offer legislation requiring the agency to allow airport passengers a second chance to go through screening machines.

After Paul bought a ticket on a different flight back to D.C. and cruised through a different checkpoint, he and TSA Administrator John Pistole talked — and agreed that maybe pat-downs should not be the only option for secondary screening. How fast Pistole moves now will determine how long Paul can make legislative hay from the contretemps.