Posted on 02/20/2006 3:14:17 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
Brother. This is a stupid statement no matter which side of the port argument you are on.
"I regret my four vote for him more than I have ever regreted any vote before."
I've never been a diehard Bush fan, but I don't think I could ever go so far as to regret his being president, in light of the alternatives.
Guess you're in the same boat as they are.
Reagan Main Street Republicans are gone with the wind. Wall Street investor Republicans and Democrats are in charge.
So the great Conservative revolution goes out with a wimper...and a huge severance package?
You raise some valid points but your postings become silly when they go so far over the top.
A President Gore or Kerry would have given you something to really regret.
bingo
Dubai Ports International bought early last year when it paid US$1.15 billion for the global assets of United States rail giant CSX Corp. It acquired the international terminal business conducted by CSX World Terminals. CSX World Terminals is a leading international container terminal developer and operator with operations in Asia , Europe , Australia and Latin America.
"Xenophobic" for sure, also "racist." Also, "protectionist," "anticapitalist," "hysteric," and "favors nationalizing private industry."
Like I care. Names don't hurt my wittle feelings.
Yep and this will be the GOP's undoing if Bush farts around, thinking everyone will just forget about it. We won't and this boner decision will cost the party the ultimate price. If he doesn't nip it in the bud immediately, he's a fool. I guess being a one worlder is more important to him than our security.
Huh how come he doesn't have a solution to that. is he suggesting a huge new beauracracy where the unions can dive in for even more graft.
It's easy to bloviate Mr. Gaffney to your worshipers, but coming up with a solution is the hard part and you decided to leave that out all together.
The deal is not done....the *contract* is on Bush's desk...he has til March 2nd to sign it or squash it......and he may even request a 45 day delay....
Jimmy Carter? Bill Clinton?
Well gee President Bush can just wiggle his nose and everything will be alright. DPWorld now has legal right to P&O's assets and infrastructure. If the contracts are canceled they have the legal right to strip the assets and sell them and put Americans out of work because of Mr. Gaffney's twitch of the nose solution.
It's much more complicated than that. Also if the contracts are canceled willy nilly what port operator would sign a contract knowing that not giving graft to hillary or schumer could result in the termination of a contract.
But i forgot some on FR live in a twitch of the nose world.
One thing he can't do is beat you at it. At least HE was appointed by Reagan as Asst Sec of Defense for International Security Policy in '87.
Links?
I'll ignore your obviously incorrect statement about Bush's intelligence. I have a theory. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. I think there is a whole HELL of a lot more going on on the terrorism front than we can appreciate from our vantage point. We have not been hit since 9-11 for a reason, actually for many reasons. I don't disagree that this is a poorly made decision on the ports, although it is probably more politically poor than substantively so. I don't profess to have full knowledge on this.
But to call Bush stupid is not to appreciate all that HAS to be going on, the very substantial portion of which we don't know, and perhaps cannot ever know.
The dems, or at least some of them, DO know but are perfectly willing to use it politically. I wouldn't think that those is this room would as well. No one, Bush included, is as stupid as this might seem.
Actually the DPWorld takeover of P&O is a done deal. The P&O shareholders approved the deal and DPWorld has the legal ownership of P&O's assets and infrastructure worldwide.
JMO, it is better to watch DPWorld than ruin investor confidence in American business due to bloviaters who could have warned Americans months ago of the deal, but decided not to, to make political hay of a company that BTW, has a good worldwide reputation within the shipping circles.
I agree with you but he has made some unfortunate choices including the Mexican border debacle.
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