Bush will veto any bill to stop port deal

AP ALERT

[Brian Mosely]

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Bush says the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and he will veto any bill that would stop it.

[muleskinner]

Sounds like a bunch of people here think that Dubai is going to pack shipping containers with a bunch of knife-weilding Al-Qaida types, and once they get to the Port of New York, they'll sneak out in the dead of night and wreak havoc.

[clawrence3]

Yes - we will.

[new yorker 77]

This is turning into a yawnfest.

All the drama.

The media is a buzz.

By the way, does anyone remember the name of the guy who Cheney accidentally shot?

Next please.

[spectre]

Of course I do, onyx. YOU should know sarcasm when you hear it. Or are those George Bush pom-poms too attached to your ears these days?

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[isrul]

I don't find contempt for Arabs refreshing. Now if the word was changed to islam, specifically mainstream islam, that would be fine with me.

[Coldwater Creek]

Whether you like Rush or not, he has a way of looking at issues that the average joe just doesn't get.

I do not always agree with him, but on this issue I think that Rush just might be right.

[clawrence3]

We simply disagree about a global economy "pissing" away anything.

[onyx]

Good post.

[meandog]

Still supporting McCain?

...well, at least, he's a proven American with guts who lives up to his pledge to support and defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

He's looking for some stupid Dem to say, "I'm all in!"

He's calling out all the whackoes by saying this. Who will it be? Pelosi, Schumer, McKinney?

He's calling them out and he is holding a full house...Aces over racism!

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"He didn't quite say, "Yes, master!" while doing it, but he may as well have. If they told him to go out into onto the pier and stick a Yang Ming container up his @ss, he would have done it. Sideways."

...and the 9/11 terrorists were cab drivers. And your point?

[JFC]

Me too. So very proud, and in some cases, surprised and disgusted.
Just check out the names of these so new founded posters.. where have they been all along. Many are new to me, the others are the same ones that always "JUMP to Conclusions"

[Diddle E. Squat]

Do you know who or what was actually the first to break and report this story, and their source? Might be quite telling.

[tomahawk]

Atta partied at strip clubs before taking out Tower 1.

[flair2000]

Eventually they'll reach a point where they claim that the free market makes screwing your country the patriotic thing to do.

Yep, I'm from North Carolina, and we've been told that for the last 20 years. We just stay bent over.

[fortheDeclaration]

Why would a Republican veto his own Party's spending bills? Maybe because his own party's legislators are spending money as though it falls down out of the sky on demand? Whatever else the current crop of GOP Congresspersons and Senators may be, the one thing they are NOT is fiscal conservatives.

First, the chart indicated that Bush had not vetoed legislature, while other Republicans had.

Well that is misleading since the other Republicans had to deal with an opposition Congress.

Just like Clinton did.

Second, spending bills are suppose to the responsibility of the Congress not the White House.

Third, much of our spending is not discretionary.

Fourth, we are engaged in a war and in addition, have had an entire city destroyed.

[mystery-ak]

Great post...thank you

[vrwc0915]

Treasury spokeswoman Brookly McLaughlin said the 12-agency Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, chaired by Treasury Secretary John Snow, had reviewed the transaction and did not object.
Snow is a former chairman of freight rail company CSX Corp., which sold its global port assets to Dubai Ports World for $1.15 billion in 2004 -- the year after Snow had left the company for the Bush administration.
They get it but they don't care. Bush's handlers want world government, it's that simple. Here we are in a "War on Terror" that requires a "Patriot Act" but Bush refuses to secure our borders. He expends enormous political capital on CAFTA - an economically meaningless trade agreement, but a masterful political instrument for consolidation of government in the Western Hemisphere. FTAA is the next step to a defacto Union of the Americas.
We let the Chinese take over the Panama Canal and now the UAE takes over six of our key ports. Why? They have dollars. The Free Traitor philosophy has given these nations tremendous trade surpluses with the U.S. If they can't spend them on hard U.S. assets then they'll opt for another currency. In order for us to keep the dollar as the world's reserve currency, at least for a few more years, we'll have to continue to allow foreigners to become our landlords. It's all in the master plan. Economic dependence is the surest way to shear us of our sovereignty

[My GOP]

After 5 years of not using the veto this is when he'll decide to use it, assuming the bill passes which it probably will. Ridiculous.

[Pukin Dog]

As Alito mentioned during his hearings, it doesn't matter what you think the laws mean. It matters what the laws say. National Security decisions rest solely with the Commander in Chief, and the Supreme Court will not allow any form of legislative discrimination between deals made between foreign companies. Congress has NO STANDING, and neither do State and Local governments.