Linder on Airliner Deaths Not Catastrophe

Rollcall has a humdinger from Rep. John Linder of Georgia on how many dead people it takes to be a catastrophe:

“If an airline is blown up in the air, that is a very bad circumstance for 200 or 300 people. But it is not a catastrophe,” Linder said during a hearing last week in the House Homeland Security Committee.