[Stellar Dendrite]

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[Pittsburg Phil]

And they wonder why people don't trust the government. Damn fools.

[DJ MacWoW]

Or he could quietly encourage the UAE to do as Communist China did last year with respect to the Unocal purchase – withdraw the offer itself, sparing the country in question (and its friends here) the embarrassment of having its behavior carefully scrutinized and its offer spurned in a high-profile way.

I suspect that there will be some sort of unamed problem and Dubai will have to regretfully pullout.

[SwinneySwitch]

We were called sexist elitists on Harriet Miers, wonder what names we'll be called for opposing this one?

[Lexington Green]

Bush has seriously undermined his credibility with this insane move. Can he be trusted to prosecute this war? Ain't sure no more...

[Reagan Man]

Bush&Company are asleep at the wheel on this one. This is a no brainer. That is, unless you're a member of the contingent of Bush sycophant bedwetters, who believe there is nothing wrong with having 'the religion of peace' managing six of the biggest US ports of entry located around the homeland.

[demkicker]

Bush and company has become completely tone deaf. I guess Karl Rove has lost his usefulness.

[devane617]

Bush is the stupidest President to ever occupy the WH.

[Dane]

The deal is already done and it was above aboard. BTW, Mr. Gaffney who is going to take over the ports, which will still be worked by American citizens employed DPWorld.

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.

[fallujah-nuker]

...the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (known by its acronym, CFIUS, pronounced syphius)

Maybe it should be pronounced "syphilus."

[eurocon]

IMHO by nominating Meiers, Bush forced the Judicial Committee Republicans to fight for someone like Alito - "put up or shut up" type gambit. Worked? Well...did it?

On the UAE Port Security deal...has anyone else noticed that this is the first time since 9/11 that Congress has been united on anything???

Bush is not the President of Republicans or conservatives - he is the President of the United States of America. As such, it is partly his responsibility to get Congress working together to pass legislation. This was not proposed by Bush nor did he ever defend it. I don't believe he ever intended to have this deal consumated. He has essentially managed to finaly unite conservatives and liberals on the subject of National Security. Can anyone say "brilliant"?

[arasina]

Call it a Harriet Meirs moment. Politics being the art of the possible, it is time to recognize that the Dubai Ports World deal is neither strategically sensible nor politically doable. It is time to pull the plug, and to reform the secretive interagency CFIUS process that allowed this fiasco in the first place.

Yoo hoo! Ovah heah!

[dervish]

Pres Bush has a blind spot or should I say an oily spot.

[i_dont_chat]

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Politics being the art of the possible, it is time to recognize that the Dubai Ports World deal is neither strategically sensible nor politically doable.

And besides that, it is not PATRIOTIC!

We ask our finest to risk their lives, fighting this war in Iraq, it is said, because we don't want the terrorists to bring the conflict on our soil. And then we allow a foreign company, Dubai Ports World, which is located in the United Arab Emirates, to manage and operate 5 of our largest sea ports?

How unpatriotic can our government get, to invite terrorists activity.

This is hypocrisy at the highest level.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Miers was a fleabite problem compared to this.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

I'll bet this is a Bush I deal and Bush II is being forced to go along with Daddy's consulting buddies.

[DTogo]

In fact, that seems virtually certain now that talk radio, the blogosphere and the public have become aware of – and white hot about – this transaction.

Wow, that's an understatement based on the comments here!

[unfortunately a bluestater]

I agree completely with Frank Gaffney on this one. Even though I am a Bush supporter, I don't agree with everything he does. He needs to use his authority to put an end to this deal. A local talk radio host said today that he has a contact in Washington, DC who told him that Kuwait and Qatar are going to kick our bases out of their countries----and that we will instead put bases in the UAE---and this port deal is a tradeoff. I'm not vouching for the truth of this as have no idea who the source is, but wondering if anyone else has heard this.

[Rider on the Rain]

I have been a supporter of the President for a long time and I still am. I must say however his attempt to place Ms. Miers on the SC was a terrible blunder.

Now this UAE contract defies logic. For the sake of our national security, and for the sake of retaining political support for the war on terror, he has to stop the UAE contract from going forward.