Posted on 02/22/2006 2:41:12 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
The AP is drooling over this. They know that conservatives (and rightly so) are angry.
"tone deaf to controversy - on top of government eavesdropping, Katrina recovery and Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident."
The public thinks those so-called examples of controversy (i.e. blame Bush) are a joke.
Bush's numbers will sink, his agenda will lie in ruins, and the GOP will lose Congress if he doesn't realize that this is a loser idea.
The truth...Chuck Schmuck and King Rino wanted more power over who determines control over the transfer (this agency that approved the takeover was created by the CONGRESS) than they are constitutionally allowed..thus the presidential veto threat.
Please how about them getting the pro's of this out. How about the consequences of nixing the deals need to be discussed. The Bush agenda is not in ruins
You wish.
From what I am reading this deal was made 5 months ago and the Dems were all for it then, they even had input in the deal. Now all of a sudden they are screaming.
Mr Bush may even be right in this deal but he is surely handling it badly. He should come out and let everyone know that this deal is 5 months old and that Dems helped make it.
Problem is, the AP and the rest of the MSM have never told the truth about anything... yet the Sheeple will continue to follow...
I was originally against this but after hearing Rush's take yesterday I won't lose any sleep if it happens.
As a Bush supporter in most areas I recognize that the President is taking the side of two foreign owned companies against America. This is treason and he should be impeached.
No foreign owned company should be allowed to have office space inside of our ports.
I will vote democrat if the republicans refuse to side with our country.
Sorry. It seems that Bush has overblown the terrorist threat to this country. He knows we really have nothing to worry about here. If he were really concerned he would be performing better on border security and on port security. The WOT is over.
Yep. Had Cheney's "shooting victim" taken another turn for the worse, this story would not even be on the radar. This is just the latest "crisis at the WH" for the presstitutes and 'rats. As to the GOPers that took the bait, suckers...
It is all about perceptions. Because these ports weren't American soil to begin with (so to speak--there is no transfer of sovereignty involved). This was a sale by a British firm to a UAE firm. Other firms looked into it but didn't want to pay the $. As it currently stands, to me this looks like one big overreaction.
That's politics. This is about National security. Bush has come out against National security.
I was against Clinton for doing the same thing with China working in our ports and I am against Bush for the same reason. America comes before any political party.
If there is some special justification for allowing what has been described as a terrorist nation to take over the management of our major ports then the Bush administration had better be explaining it to the key people who matter.
If he does not this will give the Democrats an issue for' 08 that could put them back into the White House and Congress.
I realize there are many things done in the world between even enemy nations that are based on a bigger picture than expediency. But there are questions that should be answered.
1. Is the UAE a terrorists nation?
2 Bush says the UAE has changed. All of them?
3. Why do we have to hire Third World nations to manage anything for us so important as the operation of our ports?
4. the UAE seem unable to manage themselves. It is not a country any American would want to live in. By what standards do they operate businesses?
ETC.
Yes, I can see hiring Third World people to pick cotton, but to manage our major seaports?
This will blow over like Cheney's super secret hunting murder attempt.
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