Worldnet Daily - With Congress moving to overrule the White House, Dubai Ports World announced it will give up its management stake in a deal to operate some of the terminals at U.S. ports and transfer it to an American company.
The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee voted yesterday 62-2 to add an amendment to a military funding bill, essentially blocking the pact with the government-owned company.
In a meeting today at the White House with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., President Bush was told measures would be passed to block the deal by veto-proof majorities, according to CNN.
A leading critic of the agreement, Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, called the announcement today a promising development.
He said, however, that if the Dubai-owned company retained ultimate control over the port operations, "I don't think our goals would be accomplished and obviously we will
need to study this agreement carefully."
Opponents have voiced security concerns about control of port terminals by an Arab country that has been a conduit for terrorist funds, spawned some of the 9-11 hijackers and refuses to recognize Israel.
A group opposing Islamic extremism sponsored rallies in New York City and Los Angeles to protest the deal.
A great victory for us to be sure, but still I want to see the details that guarantee the moslem vermin are completely out of our ports. That said, it does look very good for us, and very bad for the president. He has been handed the equivalence of a national no-confidence vote, and will never again receive the good faith and confidence he once firmly enjoyed from his base.
Now, he's done. Mistakes like this just cannot happen. It was bad enough when he turned on those of us who elected him with the pitifully stupid Harriet Myers nomination, but this outrageous ports deal with the arabs was unforgivable.
So, Bush's power has permanently been stripped by popular demand, he is the butt of every joke on both sides of the aisle, and will never effectively be able to lead this country again. The man simply can't be trusted and is now viewed bi-partisanly as incompetent. He should, therefore, resign from office after this humiliating defeat. He won't, mind you, but he should.
-MZ
3 comments:
madze, your happy slip is showing...
I am with ya'll. We got him into office and I feel he is ignoring us. I decided a while a go to leave the republican party. This two party system is broken. We now are stuck between liberals and socialists. At least that is how it seems to me. I would gladly put a liberitarian into office. But I think they may lean just as far left as Bush has. Just on differant subjects. I have just about lost all faith in all of them, to tell you the truth. This last deal with UAE about made me sick. Schumer and Mike Savage agreeing on something. We know something was wrong.
excuse me rwm - methane gas is quite useful and deadly - it is responsible for the deaths of countless miners and sewer workers each year. we must vote the lesser of two evils, just as rightminded people have always done. there is no perfect candydate, unless you're going out with mr. goodbar!
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