Posted on 03/08/2006 2:53:43 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
House Appropiations Committe voted to block Dubai deal
Good idea. I'll play that too.
Well, first both House and Senate have to pass the bill. the President has promised veto....I think he'd do it in this instance however we have no precedent from Bush on veto, so hard to predict 100%. But he is a man who tends very much to do what he says.
So, after all that, and all that time, would congress still muster 2/3 to override?
I don't understand why the WH won't get out in front of it more. I worry they are totally absorbed in other directions though, namely Iran.
I don't think our bases are in danger of being expelled, BTW.
I hope they can't make it veto proof. And I'd like to see the WH appoint someone to lead the education on this matter; I know the president and cabinet members are busy, but they have GOT to get a better PR person in there to get the facts out before the media has a chance to do it's damage.
It's disappointing to see this out of the House. The Senate, under Frist, we've been conditioned to expect their nonsense.
But the House usually hasn't been such knee-jerk lemmings.
I'm wondering (worrying) if something is really imminent in regards to Iran and this whole port business has simply been determined to not be of enough significance (especially at this point in the eleciton year) to allocate the resources and attention to.
Which exasperates us of course. And if I'm wrong about the Iran being imminent part, then I'm doubly exasperated.
Plus, John Kerry isn't beholden to Arab interests; he is pre-owned by Big Ketchup.
Such as whom, then? For what, specifically?
Bush pushed several huge initiatives that only a Prez can do, which were the right thing to do, and which John Kerry would never do.
I don't rample about vices and virtues and crap in my statement.
I say: Bush got us out of the ABM treaty to counter the North Korean threat in the only rational way: AMerican Technology vs. ICBM proliferation.
I say: Bush kept us out of Kyoto, thereby keeping the internationalists from strangling our economy in favor of China and other unregulated industrial countries under Kyoto.
Name two initiatives your grand Congresscrud brought us! Just TWO.
Our majority in Congress has done nothing but cram pork spending into rolled up spending bills like this one using our military men and women as hostage to force Bush to their own political will.
The UAE people do not belong in our ports. You can't unring a bell, and the kinds of things that can occur from a breach in port security are so horrendous that they are worth political infighting to prevent.
And it was probably planned this way?
It looks like some of these "Conservatives" are too busy watching skewed polls and political posturing than doing their jobs. They must have forgotten how they were originally elected? They must have also forgotten the golden rule, DON'T MESS WITH MILITARY MONEY OR EVEN ATTEMPT!
"House Appropiations Committe voted to block Dubai deal"
GOOD!
"By a vote of 62-2"
Ouch. Who were the two idiots?
"Unless of course you look at the Mexican border situation."
Ouch again.
The "crack down not a crack up" is becoming very clear lately over immigration, spending, this ports fiasco and Harriet Miers.
"That's why it was such a large margin"
WRONG. They voted for the amendment.
One of the best cases for term limits I have seen yet.
"What can be done is a joint venture between an American firm and the UAE where anything remotely connected to security is in American hands."
Is that you Baghdad Bob?
The people that did this all deserve to be voted out of office, the entire GOP deserves to pay for letting this happen.
You don't screw with the Defense Bill to fund our troops at war for your political games. It is totally INEXCUSABLE!
Thank you.
You're GD right he has.
I missed the part in your sermon about how closing the Mexican border or rejecting the UAE deal (or Cosco Long Beach deal back then) would've saved a single life on 9/11. So here's my sermon.
I do note that the NSA wiretapping thing might've helped.
Yes indeed. The UNC terrorist was in the US legally. The Lodi terrorists: not illegal immigrants. The NYE plot from Canada: legal immigration. The 9/11 terrorists, on good Visas. Did not come through the Mexican border.
So.. George Bush sits in the oval office thinking that spending money on NSA surveillance programs to catch ALL of the criminals, not just the Mexicans is a pretty damn good deal.
Or we could spend it on your infantile concept of a "wall", waste troops to sit on their duff, and strangle the entire US economy.
I apologize for my tone to a lady, but how dare you attack Bush when he has had nothing but vitriolic attacks from the Left for his entire tenure, sneaky attacks from his own Party---when it suited them politically--- and now from his voters....yet not one word of disgust for the idiots in Congress that actually control the purse.
I know you wouldn't have wanted Kerry selling this country out for eight years instead of Bush....but who would you have preferred in the primary instead? McCain? Lamar Alexander? Forbes? I mean seriously!?!! Buchanan has gone nuts in just 5 years writing columns. Imagine if he were put under the broiler Bush has been under.
That was Bush's decision, you know....What would Forbes or McCain have done, for example? After Afghanistan, which everyone in America thought was rightly a response to 9/11---no WMD complaints from anyone----we had POWs captured in battle. Being a POW himself, imagine the howls and cries if McCain had authorized torture at Abu Ghraib or Koruns down toilets in Gitmo! End. of. GOP. Right there alone.
Would anyone other than "chickenhawk" Bush have decided to hold those guys there and let them rot? Any non-headstrong prez would've given them show trials of justice, with the ACLU defending them. We'd have seen shades of 1993 for HUNDREDS of TRIALs for DECADES.
Oh yeah. That would calm the Islamofascists down.
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