President Bush truly IS a uniter. We're just all surprise at what he's used to unite us.
National unity has been hard to find since just after 9/11, but it's back. President Bush, long maligned for dividing America, has truly brought together young and old, red states and blue states, men and women.This rare moment of unity is the visceral reaction to an idea so stunningly unwise that political opponents are stumbling over one another to reach the same cameras and microphones to say the same thing – stop the ports takeover now.The controversy stems from the sale of a British firm that runs port operations in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans and Miami. London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation has been sold to Dubai Ports World of the United Arab Emirates, a nation that happened to supply two of the 9/11 hijackers.
That does not make the government of the UAE an avowed ally of Osama bin Laden, but it doesn't make it a welcome addition to our already bleak port security landscape either.
Maybe they're upset that even Bush isn't aware of what his adminstration's doing?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday.Defending the deal anew, the administration also said that it should have briefed Congress sooner about the transaction, which has triggered a major political backlash among both Republicans and Democrats.
But when you lose the wingers.........
The Greeks and Sigmund Freud had a name for what may ail President George W. Bush: Thanatos. The death wish.(...)
How else to explain this administration's inexorable march toward political death?
The final throes of Bush's journey toward self-destruction may have found expression with the apparent sale of operational rights to six of our nation's largest ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Approved by the Bush administration against all reason, the $6.8 billion sale includes the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.
You've lost the base.
Oh, and Ms Malkin... bi-partisan concern for national security shouldn't come as a surprise. Finding yourself aware of your opposition's support for something you're in favor of doesn't mean it never existed. It's like the guy who had been blindfolded for years, having it pulled off and then being surprised that there was a whole other world out there. It's always been there but a constructed obstruction kept it invisible.
Posted by kerry at February 22, 2006 05:53 AM