"What did Chuck Schumer and Peter King have to say about those COSCO and Unocal acquisitions?"
COSCO attempted to negotiate a long term lease of the port of Long Beach during the Clinton administration, but the deal was squelched due to public outcry. China attempted to purchase Unocal just last year, but the deal was squelched due to public outcry. Now, a company run by Muslims is attempting to purchase operational control over six of our largest ports. Ports have long been considered a weakness due to the near-impossibility of inspecting every container passing through those ports. I hope this deal, too, is squelched due to public outcry. If you wish to view this purely as some sort of partisan political ploy, you may want to ask yourself why anyone with any political savvy would walk right into such a thing, with the recent Unocal history, plus the Port Of Long Beach history. Somebody's tone deaf here, and it's not the Conservatives who oppose this acquisition.
Excellent point. It is not about politics or parties, it's about the national security of our country. The Dems were on top of this issue. This is the one thing they have done right. Instead of a personal attack on Bush which I have hated, they are dealing with him on his poor decision making on this deal. Conservative, religious Repubs went after him over Meiers and other repubs attacked them as disloyal but they held true because they knew that Bush owed them a better nominee. Bush is not always right.