Eller & Co , run by fat cat Democrat Donors, got beat out for the P&O deal by Dubai Port World. They hired a big shot lawyer and filed a lawsuit. They knew the Lawsuit was crap so they scurried up to Capitol Hill to cry for help. The Unions also hated the deal cause they knew in new Union Negotiations with the new company they were going to get seriously squeezed by demands of labor saving technological improvements. Chucky Schumer, head of the Democrat Senate Election Committee, took the lobbying info and ran with it. It allowed him to do a number of things. It allows Democrats to nuke their "weak on National Security" PR vulnerability. It gets him a big wet sloppy kiss from the unions in terms of money and foot solider for the Senate campaigns. It gets him big dollars from the Port Terminal companies, it drives a wedge into the Republican base, and best of all he got Know Nothing Talking Heads like Sean Hannity, Mike Savage and Laura Ingraham etc. to do the PR dirty work for him.
The best thing is he can walk away a big winner now, OR he can go to stage two and lobby that the ports be "nationalized" like they did with the Airline Screeners. The Congresscowards, their usual gutless selves, simply looked at the polls and panicked. NEVER even thought that they should stand by the President and fight for the truth. They simply panicked and rolled over for the Dem's AGAIN.
No national security implications, no nonsense about "turning our ports over to Arabs" simply a business deal where the losers went to Congress to buy the influence to reverse the deal. The same Americans running the port terminals now would of been running them after the deal for Dubai Port World. The name on the outside of the terminal and the name on the paycheck given to the American terminal workers would have change and that is about it.
Simply amazing that the same people who whine endlessly about "Bush big spending" and "Big Govt Republicans" now have seen to it that there will be an expansion in the cost, scope and reach of the Federal Govt over the Private Sector. That's the REALITY which the Whine All The Time Choir just screamed down rather then admit the knee jerk nature of their "I'm mad at Bush" hissy fit about the Terminal Deal.
How about this?
WOW!
You make FR so GOOD!
Thank you.
So, these companies that were supposedly crabbing to Eller about working with DP World....are we to infer these companies ONLY did business that involved US ports and NONE of the other ports worldwide that DP World manages?
Very flimsy rationale, IMO. I think Eller was ticked they didn't get the bid and sought to get the deal done other ways, especially when the judges ruled against them.
See tagline.
Surprise, surprise - - Schumer is a scumbag.
LMAO!!
By the way, GREAT post.
BUMP!
Great post this stuff has got to get out
This has NOTHING at all to do with President Bush being "wrong" and EVERYTHING to do with a mob of mindless hysterics following corrupt DEMs over the cliff.
When it just doesn't make sense, follow the money!
Nice work.
Well done!
To: onyx; holdonnow
Without even having to get involved in a bidding war, some US based terminal operator is going to own the leases that DP World is giving up.
Keep an eye on SSA where Patty Murray's husband is employed. SSA stands to reap big rewards in this deal.
422 posted on 03/12/2006 11:58:23 PM CST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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There's several dozen if not a hundred issues where government has overstepped the power granted to it by the people. A person could write a hundred articles, one article per issue, that exposes each government abuse of power and abuse of citizens. What if there was one article that could do the job of one hundred separate articles? First, the article would have to identify a common denominator that runs through all the issues. Government abuse is a common denominator but that's not the only focus of this article. This identifies a common denominator that politicians, bureaucrats and the facilitating main stream media use to justify government abuse. It applies at all levels of government -- federal, state and local. It snatches the rug out from under, followed by the expected collapse. Not a leg to stand on. Here's a generalized identification of a common denominator that extends its reach to almost all political agenda laws and regulations that parasitical elites in government create and that is at the root of government abuse. What's the general argument, one-size-fits-all argument, given to the people that politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists and MSM facilitators use to justify the need for a new law and/or regulation? Their argument is that the people must have the new law and/or regulation to protect the "little guy," the children and/or society from ______ (fill in the blank) frightening consequence that will be inflicted on the people and/or society without the new law or regulation. The fill-in-the-blank is a boogieman. It's a problem that does not exist or is not the responsibility of government to resolve.. ...A non-problem void filled with a politician created problem. That's the general argument put forth for each new law and regulation. A fabricated illusion foisted on the people as though it were a real problem that only the government can fix. The premise of the argument is that persons and society will run headlong toward destruction without the new law and/or regulation. General chaos would occur. It's a grander illusion than the above. It's a must-have law. Got that? Without the new law you and society will self-destruct. So says politicians, bureaucrats and a facilitating main stream media -- parasitical elites. On average the federal government creates 3,000 new laws and regulations each year. Each state legislature creates probably a third to half that many each year. Question: for the past two-hundred years have individuals increased prosperity for themselves, their families and society? Laying the ground work for the next generation to further increase their own and society's prosperity? Yes and yes. Next question: how did people manage to continually increase prosperity while always perched on the cliff-edge of running themselves and society headlong toward destruction? How did persons and society increasingly prosper in any decade, much less the 1990's without the supposed benefits of 15,000 new laws and regulations that came in the years 2000 to 2005? Surely, according to the arguments and underlying premise told to us by parasites in the legislature person's should have lead themselves and society into destruction during the 1990's. Why? Because during the 1990's we didn't have the new laws that would be created at the start of the 21st century to protect us from self-destructing. How did people and society not self destruct Pick virtually any time in history and similar boogieman arguments and premise were put forth by the politicians or church in power at that time in history. They abused their power to control the people so that they -- the parasitical elites -- could justify their unearned paychecks or high-and-mighty lifestyles to the peasants, subjects and taxpayers. This problem is anything but new. For thousands of years they -- parasitical elites -- What is the primary tool -- another common denominator -- that allows for parasitical elites to manipulate people from one generation to the next? It resides with the individual. Each person's conscious mind is inflicted to some degree with the vestiges of the bicameral mind. As Julian Jaynes, who authored The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind explained, an over- abundance of contradicting auditory hallucinations caused bicameral-mind man to create or discover consciousness. Mysticism is a vestige of the bicameral mind. Mysticism: acting on the non-real as though it were real. Acting on feel-good or feel-fear arguments regardless of the argument and premise being invalid. Aside from parasitical elites that know their arguments and premise are invalid, for each boogieman law and regulation there are "peasants", "subjects", "sheeple" (people that follow the heard) and taxpayers that will vigorously support their pet law or regulation. ...Support the boogieman law regardless of the invalid argument and underlying premise put forth by parasitical elites. When a person does that they are playing right into the hands of the parasitical elites. ...Acting like good little indoctrinated "peasants"/"subjects"/"sheeple"/taxpayers; towing the status-quo line. Perhaps you don't think it's really that bad. That's what the parasitical elite would have you believe. It is that bad. Reality check: virtually every adult breaks the law several times a year. The more laws there are the more difficult it becomes to not break the law. It's so bad that most people when violating a law don't even know they're breaking the law. Question: with that massive amount of lawlessness -- laws being violated -- how is it that person's and society have not run headlong into destruction? Equally important, shouldn't the laws apply to every person and be applied uniformly? If a person breaks the law should not the law be respected by enforcing/apprehending the person that disrespected the law? Surely the argument and premise told to us by parasitical elites supports apprehending each person that breaks the law. Yet not one-tenth of one-percent of people that violate the law are ever held accountable . Each time a person violates the law it moves the person and society toward destruction. And everybody does that. Reality check #2 If the one-tenth of one-percent didn't get caught and held accountable for breaking the law how much would that effect society when the 99.9% of the adult population that isn't caught and held accountable is doing the same thing. Surely if 99.9% of people committing the same violations haven't run themselves and society into destruction then the one-tenth of one-percent aren't going to destroy themselves and society. The one-tenth of one-percent pay a heavy price for getting caught. Snared in the parasitical elites' web of political agenda laws and regulations. However, the 99.9% pay the bills (taxes). Actually the money is extorted from them to pay the bills. For no person in their right mind would knowingly and willingly pay for such government abuse. The clincher. Consider this: if it were physically possible to apprehend every person that broke the law in the past twelve months chaos would swiftly overcome persons and society. The market and economy would come to a screeching halt. Almost every adult person including politicians, bureaucrats, judges and LEOs would be apprehended and wasting time in holding jails and courts. Having successfully brought the economy and free market to a screeching halt the parasitical elites can explain to the children home-alone that they did it for them--the children.
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By the way thanks for this thread.
Fantastic job, CW! I hope this info gets out.
Thanks for the ping, onyx.
"Schumer fiddles".....The devil went down to congress...paging little Johnny!Paging little Johnny! bring your fiddle, boy! the devil's up to his old tricks again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594261/posts?page=12#12 <- read this one, click thru
Read this later.