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Posted on 02/22/2006 1:42:25 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina
CHARLOTTE (AP) — When offering her opinion about a deal to sell six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, Rep. Sue Myrick decided a single sentence would be enough to make her point.
"In regards to selling American ports to the United Arab Emirates, not just NO — but HELL NO!" Myrick wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to President Bush.
Aside from the standard greeting — "Dear Mr. President" — and closing — "Sincerely, Sue Myrick, Member of Congress" — that sentence is all the Republican from Charlotte wrote in her letter.
Bush has defended his administration's decision to approve the $6.8 billion sale of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to Dubai Ports World. Several members of Congress, from both parties, have expressed concerns the sale could increase the possibility of terrorism at American ports.
Bush has promised to veto any bill Congress might approve that would block sale of the British company to the Arab firm, which would take over major shipping operations at ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. Dubai Ports has said the company will agree to any security precautions the U.S. government demands to keep the deal alive.
Sue is my Congresswoman. She's rumored to be considering giving up her safe seat to run for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Whew, for a minute I thought her smartass, useless and uninformed grandstanding was a political stunt.
Well it is hard to argue with the solid reasoning behind her decision.
With that kind of inane, childish showmanship, she should be running for the head of the DNC.
This juvenile reaction confirms it.
Just what the Republicans need, a narrow minded leap before you look loon.
Oh, put a sock in it, Sue. Your CAFTA vote is going to sink you, no matter how hard you try to appease after the fact.
While I agree with her stance, I think she took a really trashy and low class route to leting the PRESIDENT know how she felt. What has happened to civil discourse when a member of the freaking republican party can cuss the president out? Unfreaking believable.
N.C. ping?
Why can't they ever get this right? Foreign company #1 runs those ports, foreign company #2 bought foreign company #1 and inherits the contracts, which include those ports. The only thing here is that Bush okayed the merger and continuance of the contract.
W could do a better job of explaining and persuading. Keep in mind, he's asking for this on top of his refusal to take our border enforcement seriously.
Selling the ports is a travesty but this classless letter doesn't reflect well on Myrick.
Exactly. How embarrassing.
No, she just wanted to have a moment of attention. Well, on second thought, I guess you're right: it was a smartass, useless and uninformed stunt.
LOL, you're on a roll, stop it, you're killin' me!!!
honestly I don't think many of them were rational in the first place.....
We could be witnessing the beginnings of a split in the GOP, I thought it was inevitable, but this may bring things to a head.
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