Correcting 3 Lies about the Port Deal (Vanity)

Febuary 23, 2006

[Michael.SF.]

There you go again, using facts and logic to ruin a perfectly good opportunity by the Democrats to make Bush look bad.

/sarcasm

[cripplecreek]

good opportunity by the Democrats to make Bush look bad.

There you go ignoring facts again in an attempt to make it sound like the democrats are alone in their opposition. Sounds like simple dishonesty to me.

[Darkwolf377]

Thank you for this and your other posts on this issue, which are about facts, the valuing of which I thought made us better than the DUmmies.

[OldFriend]

Peter King and Chuck Schumer are tie for being publicity whores.

Peter King has received thousands of dollars from the longshoreman union.

[Darkwolf377]

We don't want Arabs doing our ports! NoWAY!!

jampoisie Since Feb 22, 2006

[CBart95]

The impeccable warrior will win supremely.

The less impeccable ones will be peddling furiously to avoid the paintbrush of disgrace as the autopsy of this episode is concluded.

If your stomach is turning over the sorry mixture of metaphors you are probably not cut out for mixed martial arts.

[ken in texas]

Why don't you add some facts to the discussion?

[Darlan]

Can you be more specific about this law? Local radio has been talking about it and obviously doesn't know.

Thanks!

[madison10]

How 'bout Iraqi Arabs?

[DumpsterDiver]

peter king who is clueless on the 1988 law that was written.

Do you have any more information on this law, like the name of it, or who wrote it?

[Crim]

Need a link to the law please...

[Michael.SF.]

There you go ignoring facts again

Looks like you are ignoring a few facts here, specifically:

1) One can be oppossed to this policy, w/o focusing the "Blame" on Bush. An intellectually honest person would do so.

2) As the article states, Bush's hands were tied by what the law says.

3) The Democrats have always used any opportunity to make Bush look bad, regardless of the facts.

4) True Consevatives (not simply loyal Republican's) base their opposition to some of Bush's policies or actions based on sound principles, not based on misrepresentations of what has occurred.

[Non-Sequitur]

So why is something that he knew nothing about a couple of days ago suddenly so important that he's picking fightes with his leaders in the House and Senate athreatening the first veto of his administration?

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

I am for the port deal.

People made a snap judgement against it and now don't want to admit that they should have waited for more information. So now they are stuck defending what they describe as a common sense decision. "I just don't like the idea man, I mean these are Arabs!" I am reassured by the likes of Krauthammer and others who say the deal won't be harmful to our security.

I am unhappy with Frist and others in the GOP who panicked when their UNDER INFORMED constituents jumped to the wrong conclusion that this deal would be dangerous. Well this is more important than sticking to your guns just to be sticking to your guns. And too important for the GOP leadership to assuage thier UNDER ININFORMED constituents by peeling away support for the Administration.

What we need is for the GOP leadership to use this as a teaching moment. If they do and those who just don't want to admit that they jumped to conclusions, stubbornly refuse to admit thier ERROR...then for the good of the country the deal needs to go through anyway.

[deport]

We don't want Arabs doing our ports! NoWAY!!

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No way Jose..... we need to keep those jobs for those that are coming here to do the jobs Americans won't do.... don'tcha know.

[bad company]

There you go ignoring facts again in an attempt to make it sound like the democrats are alone in their opposition. Sounds like simple dishonesty to me.

Lets see if I can fix that.

good opportunity by the Democrats and rinos to make Bush look bad.

There. That's better.

[VanDeKoik]

Thanks for the post. I started out wanting to hear both sides of this argument. What I have found is that those against this have brought forth little more than "I dont want Arabs running nothin" or "Their going to blow to port sky high because their all terrorist". Im firmly on the side of this deal until these guys can bring concrete proof that this is a bad idea.

[Pukin Dog]

Bush doesn't have to explain anything. He is not in the weak position here. The Democrats are in the weak position. Bush has taken a principled stand. Those who want to move him will have to take up opposing positions. The others who are in the weak position are the Republicans making noise in the media right now. He might mention the port deal during some speech about something else, but he will never take the time to explain this deal to anyone in a press conference.