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I started out disagreeing with your assessment of how the White House handled the Cheney shooting, but now I may be coming around to your side, after watching how they've handled this ports issue. The two certainly line up perfectly with one another.

There are probably many good economic reasons (and very likely strategic ones) to let the UAE deal go through, but at the same time there are lots and lots of questions and concerns. Those are all lost now under a tidal wave of hysteria, half-truth and outright bullsh!t put forward by the democrat party and their media allies, who were allowed to spin and lie and bloviate and play on our fears for three friggin' days while the White House sat mute and took a nice relaxing holiday weekend off.

I know they hate dealing with the media, and God knows they've got legitimate reasons to do so. But damnit, it's part of the job. There's things I hate doing on my job, but they have to be done, so I just roll up my sleeves, grit my teeth and do them anyway.

And now as a result of their refusal to effectively communicate, this deal that Bush wants to go through is most likely dead, dead, dead, and several years from now we'll probably be looking back at this episode as a squandered opportunity.