Our Government at Work
Representative Sue Myrick, in a letter to George W. Bush:
Dear Mr. President:
In regards to selling American ports to the United Arab Emirates, not just NO – but HELL NO!
Sincerely,
Sue Myrick
What a bunch of – um, hooey…
Breathtakingly ignorant -besides the juvenile nature of the letter, you have the fact that it’s not even correct on the issue – it’s the right to manage commercial operations that is being sold, not the ports themselves…
Dear Ms. Myrick,
On this topic – selling American ports to the United Arab Emirates (or anyone) – we are in total agreement! I will NEVER agree to do such a treasonous and irresponsible thing!!!!
Regards,
George W. Bush (President of the United State of America)
Perfect…
That’s Republican Congressman Sue Myrick, correct?
Yes, it is, as a matter of fact…but there’s plenty of Democrats acting like complete jackasses on this, too…your point?
Hmmm.. feisty today, huh?
My point is simply that when you have Hastert, DeLay, and Frist leading the opposition, and GOP back benchers acting like Barney Frank, you have another Harriet Miers moment…
I hope you’re wrong (though you may be right) – mainly because, unlike the Harriet Miers brouhaha, I think the merits favor Bush…
Actually Hastert is not part of the ‘Hell, no’ contingent.
There are three camps (yes, NO, maybe) and you’d do well to pay attention to the ‘wait and see’ contingency.
Notice that McCain is of the wait and see pack, along with Hastert, and Liebermann.
IF Bush can convince Liebermann and MCain(or Hastert) the debate is over.
If this gets to hearings, and I pray it does-the opponents of the deal will have to provide FACTS, rather than suppositions. Half their questions will be geared for distancing themselves from expressing the belief that all things Arab are evil, to no avail.
I’ve seen a lot of knowledgable people come out to derride the opposition for its ignorance, but I also have failed to see an actual leader of the Hell NO contingency with credibility-(although I have a soft spot for Ilyana Ross Leihtin(sp))
Who is going to be the star witness for the opposition at the hearings? Frist, Delay, Schumer, Clinton, Malkin, Savage? Anybody with real crediblity, favors the deal.
missed Frist coming down from the ledge, but here it is…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/blog/2006/02/frist_on_ports_trust_but_verif.html
“trust, but verify”
mtl-
“If this gets to hearings, and I pray it does-the opponents of the deal will have to provide FACTS, rather than suppositions…”
Stop and think about that. Have you ever actually watched a Congressional hearing??
They’ll focus on inane details like “why wasn’t Congress informed” (“You mean no one on your staff reads the Wall Street Journal, the Economist or the Financial Times, Senator?”) and “why isn’t there a major American company that does this” and “how much did Cheney have to drink”…
At bottom, can you really support the idea that it will be a harder task for the innuendo-mongers in the Senate to tar the Middle East’s banking capital with financial connections to terrorism than it was to tar an excellent judge with peripheral membership in a conservative college club thirty years earlier when he was in college???
Was I mistaken to believe that the Alito hearings were a win for Bush and conservatives?
He was confirmed.