Comments on: Dubai Ports World Vote

By: floyd

floyd — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:10:11 +0000

steve; maybe we should just summons people for congress duty instead of elections, could we do worse? how about just have an honest to goodness auction[the money going to the U S treasury]? or a draft lottery? or make a rule that they can't leave office with more than ten times the net worth of their district average. this is all tongue in cheek, but really i guess it is true that wanting the job makes you unqualified.

By: All Things Beautiful

All Things Beautiful — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:07:37 +0000

Dubai Ports, The Deal Is Dead...

Bush Administration and their arrogant, cavalier attitude toward this deal does not install confidence, and to have threatened with a veto had to be the biggest 'icing on the cake' blunder of all. Karl Rove, who seems to have the instincts of a turtl...

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:59:40 +0000

Floyd,

I am aware that both sides have their hands dirty on this one. But when the President stood up for principles and did the right thing, his party turned on him and humiliated him. In a second term that is really bad in that it could weaken him to the point where he has very little ability to get things done. The Republicans may have cut off their nose to spite their face. And while I am not a big fan of the Presidents, this strikes me as a bad move in more than one way.

By: Arguing with signposts

Arguing with signposts — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:29:40 +0000

UAE Port Deal...

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By: floyd

floyd — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:54 +0000

steve, with due respect i think you might benefit from a little skepticism aimed at BOTH sides of the aisle of federal politics. the structure alone makes it nearly impossible for any federal politician to do the right thing instead of the party thing.on this issue though; if these people are a threat to our security, then why do we let them service our naval vessels in the mid-east?

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:12:15 +0000

I was bitterly amused to see Rep. King of NY all over the media demagoguing over the ports deal. This the the King who just couldn't get enough of the IRA and Sinn Fein, who was all buddy-buddy with Gerry Adams. I am not aware of any action taken by him to try to limit the collection of funds for NORAID, by honest-to-god 'mericans of Irish extraction all over his district.

I suppose there's some good in being reminded that Americans can, indeed, be bigots, stampeded by stump-thumpers, and/or simply not paying attention. But I'd really rather think better of my fellow citizens.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:47:02 +0000

Herb according to this story at CNN the only two to vote against the amendment were Rep. Jim Moran Rep. Jim Kolbe. You can find the list of the entire committee here.

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:52:04 +0000

Steve:

Give me a website where I can see who voted against this deal in the House App. Comm.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:39:32 +0000

Really Ed? First off it isn't racism, but the bigotry card. Muslims are (at least the Middle Eastern ones) are white. Here is an idea. Using Ed Logic^TM lets deport all people of Filipino ancestory. After all, any Filipino will side with Filipinos. And since there are Muslim Filipinos no Filipino can be trusted. So buh-bye Michelle Malkin and her little kids too. See how "fun" it is to use this kind of horrendous logic.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:08:38 +0000

When it comes to the security of this country and the absolutely clear knowledge that any mid Easterner will side with a Muslim over the US playing the race card against Michele is clearly WRONG.

By: Bachbone

Bachbone — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:28:59 +0000

Anyone who thinks only "the other side of the aisle" is capable of demagoguery is too easily deceived. Most members of both parties are there for just one thing: to get re-elected. Fear of not getting that rules all else. On this ports issue, Republicans are more worried about getting re-elected than supporting Bush, and Democrats are more interested in being able to bash Republicans for being "weak on security" than in the nation's security! Only when they think something can be blamed totally on the other party do they go after each other fist and nail. How often have they made backroom "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" deals for pork projects? McCain and Feingold cooperated to deny criticism of themselves and their brethren. Bush could have vetoed it, but didn't. Both parties smell up the country. Which stinks worse just depends which side you are on in a particular issue.

By: David C

David C — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:08:03 +0000

This is pretty shameful. I'm especially embarrassed to see that, while my party's congressmen are eagerly lining up to board the demagoguery train, one of the few "voices of sanity" is the Democrat representative of my district, the generally loathsome Jim Moran.

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:53:50 +0000

Nice to know that while our conressmen botch homeland security, accept gobs of money for their pork pet projects, and alienate badly needed allies in the GWOT, their only concern seems to be posturing for an upcoming election.

By: NoZe

NoZe — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:27:21 +0000

You're absolutely right...this is racist demagoguery at its worst and I'm disappointed in both the Republicans and my own Democrats in the House for engaging in it...the spirit of the "Know-Nothings" lives on! The president is right, at least on this issue!