hClinton and Schumer are intro-ing a bill to stop the Bush Admin turning 6 port operations over to an UAE company.
[This issue may bite the Bush butt as hard from the left and right as the Miers nomination did from the right.]
when Peter King called the white house in the middle of this week to raise the red flag about what was happening here, they should have announced the next morning that this was going to be undone. As always, when you don't react fast to a story, the opposition fills the vacuum and sets the tone - and that's where we are right now.
You are right. How did Bush let this one go? I'm not a republican but of late have voted that way out of concern on national security. If this is not an issue to the Republicans anymore, an issue which got them in office, then my vote will go elsewhere. Bush's amnesty program with border patrol taking shots at them is not alright with me. This deal on the ports not alright with me either. I am not a republican stooge. Someone should advice him more wisely or perhaps the money is more important to him from this port deal.
"[This issue may bite the Bush butt as hard from the left and right as the Miers nomination did from the right.]"
You could be right. Afterall when the US ramped up all the regulations on US registered ships after WWII its not like they all switched their registration to Liberia or anything. And what with declining teamster power due to containerization, we need to do something to assure our ports remain as inefficient as the Dims regulated them to in their post WWII hey day.
I wonder if Senators (or Congressmen) have a pet name for bills whose sole purpose is to provide fodder for election-year commercials.
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