Politics, Ports and Vetos
The approval by the Bush Administration to allow for the sale of 6 or 7 US Cargo Terminals on the eastern half of the US to a UAE owned company has sent tempers, politcs and Presidential power into overdrive.
Dubai Ports World a port managment company has come to terms with Peninsular and Oreiental Steam Navigation CO. to buy the rights to 6 or 7 ports in the US. The Bush Admin has, through the Committee on Foreign Investment, approved the deal to go through and allow the transfer of ownership. The CoFI is a body composed of 12 governmental agencies ranging from Treasury, Defense and Commerce to Homaland Security---they have given the thumbs up on the ownership transfer.
This deal will include up to 30% of the terminals at the 6 or 7 ports in question, not total control of these ports as implied in the MSM.
Possibly most importantly is the fact that this is a Managment contract not a security contract.
The Security of these ports remains and shall always remain the domain of the US COAST GUARD and HOMELAND SECURITY. Should any problems occur, they are to blame if security is non sufficient to meet the challanges ahead.
Yet, the Media, the Left and even many Republican's have found so-called religion in this matter. The Media and the Left are piping up claiming Security is at stake---yes all the while demanding we close Gitmo, pull out of Iraq and stop the NSA EAVESDROPPING---but this, selling a Managment Contract to the UAE and global business is where they draw the line. TYPICAL DEM AND LEFTIST HYPOCRISY
Yet not to be out done, many GOPers have feared the political backlash and flown the logic-coop. Lindsay Graham and others have shied away from logic to politics. This is disgraceful by the GOP and allowing an issue to show the ugly side of politics.
Yet, even President Bush is showing too much interest in this, threatening a veto if Congress challanges and tries to prevent the sale. President BUSH has fiddled while Washington has burned in excess spending, never vetoing a spending bill. Finding Religion now is an insult to true-blue conservatives. Spending his political capital on the UAE, no matter how strong of an ally they have been in the War on Terror is an insult to those of us who have faught for SS reform, Tax Cuts and Sound Fiscal Policy.
So there we have it, the DEMS and LEFT have played election politics to try to prove they are tough on Terrorism, but only when UNION jobs are at stack. The UNIONS fear the modernization of ports, which would lead to streamlined and more effecient methods of Port service, which translates potentially into fewer jobs---hence the newly found Patriotism by the likes for Moscow Hilliary and Red Ted Kennedy, Nancy the Tito Pelosi and the rest of the DEM crowd.
The GOP fears the political backlash and thus shows the courage of the cowardly lion in OZ. Forget the facts, forget that security is the role of the US GOV't and forget that we are the party of Business...oh and forget that it has already been vetted by those who should know best. The people we pay to monitor these very issues, not the politicians, but the bureacrats in D.C. who should be the vetters fo this did and have approved it.
The President is showing too much interest in this case, to his political embarrasment. Certainly the UAE has stepped up as the first nation to accept our added security requirements from overseas to monitor cargo, sure they were the first to step up in the Arab world to aid IRAQ training, our troop movements and assist us in the WAR on TERROR. Forget all the good they have done...focus just for a moment on the Presidents motive to aid the ally in hte region. Smart no, necessary yes! He should not have stacked so much credibility on it, nor should he have offered the threat of a veto...when he has never used it for more important issues.
He is losing his base for the over extension of his reach. He should fight for it, but only back channel wise, not from the pulpit of the Presidency.
Finally, if the UAE was intent on using our ports to attack us via the TERROR network they risk allignating themselves like no nation has ever done. Terrorists have many ways to access us, to go through a ligit company and weaken the very openings they do have by exposing a more difficult route is not only unwise but a waste of limited resources.
This deal is good for long term jobs and commerce which will be the medicine needed to inaculate muslims from turning to wahabism in the future...profits will win the war on Terrorism...jobs will win the poort over.
Finally, always worry when the DEMS show support for the WAR on TERRORISM...they are like 3 day old fish and guests...they both stink!
Dubai Ports World a port managment company has come to terms with Peninsular and Oreiental Steam Navigation CO. to buy the rights to 6 or 7 ports in the US. The Bush Admin has, through the Committee on Foreign Investment, approved the deal to go through and allow the transfer of ownership. The CoFI is a body composed of 12 governmental agencies ranging from Treasury, Defense and Commerce to Homaland Security---they have given the thumbs up on the ownership transfer.
This deal will include up to 30% of the terminals at the 6 or 7 ports in question, not total control of these ports as implied in the MSM.
Possibly most importantly is the fact that this is a Managment contract not a security contract.
The Security of these ports remains and shall always remain the domain of the US COAST GUARD and HOMELAND SECURITY. Should any problems occur, they are to blame if security is non sufficient to meet the challanges ahead.
Yet, the Media, the Left and even many Republican's have found so-called religion in this matter. The Media and the Left are piping up claiming Security is at stake---yes all the while demanding we close Gitmo, pull out of Iraq and stop the NSA EAVESDROPPING---but this, selling a Managment Contract to the UAE and global business is where they draw the line. TYPICAL DEM AND LEFTIST HYPOCRISY
Yet not to be out done, many GOPers have feared the political backlash and flown the logic-coop. Lindsay Graham and others have shied away from logic to politics. This is disgraceful by the GOP and allowing an issue to show the ugly side of politics.
Yet, even President Bush is showing too much interest in this, threatening a veto if Congress challanges and tries to prevent the sale. President BUSH has fiddled while Washington has burned in excess spending, never vetoing a spending bill. Finding Religion now is an insult to true-blue conservatives. Spending his political capital on the UAE, no matter how strong of an ally they have been in the War on Terror is an insult to those of us who have faught for SS reform, Tax Cuts and Sound Fiscal Policy.
So there we have it, the DEMS and LEFT have played election politics to try to prove they are tough on Terrorism, but only when UNION jobs are at stack. The UNIONS fear the modernization of ports, which would lead to streamlined and more effecient methods of Port service, which translates potentially into fewer jobs---hence the newly found Patriotism by the likes for Moscow Hilliary and Red Ted Kennedy, Nancy the Tito Pelosi and the rest of the DEM crowd.
The GOP fears the political backlash and thus shows the courage of the cowardly lion in OZ. Forget the facts, forget that security is the role of the US GOV't and forget that we are the party of Business...oh and forget that it has already been vetted by those who should know best. The people we pay to monitor these very issues, not the politicians, but the bureacrats in D.C. who should be the vetters fo this did and have approved it.
The President is showing too much interest in this case, to his political embarrasment. Certainly the UAE has stepped up as the first nation to accept our added security requirements from overseas to monitor cargo, sure they were the first to step up in the Arab world to aid IRAQ training, our troop movements and assist us in the WAR on TERROR. Forget all the good they have done...focus just for a moment on the Presidents motive to aid the ally in hte region. Smart no, necessary yes! He should not have stacked so much credibility on it, nor should he have offered the threat of a veto...when he has never used it for more important issues.
He is losing his base for the over extension of his reach. He should fight for it, but only back channel wise, not from the pulpit of the Presidency.
Finally, if the UAE was intent on using our ports to attack us via the TERROR network they risk allignating themselves like no nation has ever done. Terrorists have many ways to access us, to go through a ligit company and weaken the very openings they do have by exposing a more difficult route is not only unwise but a waste of limited resources.
This deal is good for long term jobs and commerce which will be the medicine needed to inaculate muslims from turning to wahabism in the future...profits will win the war on Terrorism...jobs will win the poort over.
Finally, always worry when the DEMS show support for the WAR on TERRORISM...they are like 3 day old fish and guests...they both stink!
posted by Tom Gaitens at 12:19 PM
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