Here are the nut graphs [emphasis added]:

The White House on Sunday urged senators to quickly hold a vote on its nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, but the battle showed little signs of easing as a Republican reiterated his concerns about the pick.

The White House's appointment of Erroll Southers, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, has been held up by Sen. Jim DeMint, who has raised questions about Mr. Southers's position on worker unionization. The South Carolina Republican wants Mr. Southers to promise that he would oppose granting collective-bargaining rights to the TSA's tens of thousands of employees.

This is a rather extraordinary situation, and, I dare say, if the players were reversed and it were a lone Democrat who stood in the way of filling a key national security post in a GOP administration (and stood in the way for partisan reasons that had nothing to do with security), the press coverage would not be quite so ho-hum in the way the Journal article is.

I'd also suggest that if a Democrat were holding up a key national security post, the Journal would definitely let critics tee-off in print. But in today's increasingly GOP-friendly WSJ newsroom, readers only hear from DeMint. Not a single critic (let alone Democrat) is allowed to directly voice objections to the senator's hold.