Bush’s Port Deal v National Security

So… The big guy wants to turn over our ports – which firebrands of every political persuasion agree are our current #1 security weakness (the ports, not W) – to a state-owned company in Dubai. Where everybody who runs the joint is Muslim. In a part of the world where Muslims hate our red, white and blue guts. At a time when the additional Abu Ghraib torture photos Bush tried to suppress just got out and Osama is still releasing number one dance hits all over the region.

Gosh no, I don’t see a problem with that. Throwing open our nation’s most unprotected doors to enemies of the state during wartime – what could possibly go wrong? Like every other bad, inept and/or corrupt boneheaded initiative to proceed from Team Bush since Day One, W is insisting this go through or by golly (gasp!) he’ll whip out his Veto pen (say, where is that thing, anyhow?) and take his ball, bat and 55-galllon drums of crude oil and go home.

The problem is, Bush has no more political capital or moral authority to back up his play. He’s pissed away both with his lies, embellishments and obfuscations that took us to Iraq. When the GOP heads of both the Senate and the House are balking at this proposed sweetheart deal with his family’s Big Oil Buddies, you know Dumbleyou is finally running out of political traction with his base, fucking dullard lemmings that they've been till now.

And considering every goddamn word that’s slipped from his thin, quivering lips in the last 5 years has been proven demonstrably false, from “smoking mushroom clouds of WMDs” to “heckuva job, Brownie!” his base was all he had left to run on.

Here’s his latest howler, as quoted in the NYTimes: "If there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States, it would not go forward," Mr. Bush said, discussing a government review of the deal that began in October and ended on Jan. 16 without producing any objections from officials in his administration.

‘No objections from officials in his administration.’ You betcha. Any objectors have long-since been kicked to the curb.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. For the time being, I’m just grateful that Bush no longer has the ability to make something happen just by proposing it. I’m surprised his party let him kick them around as long as they did.