The Dubai company seeking to take over some terminal operations at six American ports formally asked the Bush administration on Sunday to conduct a deeper investigation into security concerns surrounding the deal. The request will leave President Bush in the politically delicate position of having to personally approve or disapprove the takeover.
Oh, fucking swell. That's like making the head of an arson ring the Fire Chief.
But Democrats balked, insisting on their original demand that Congress should have the final say over the deal. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who joined a bipartisan group of senators on Friday in calling for a quick vote on legislation requiring a 45-day review, said Congress, not the White House, should make the final determination.
"We still believe that the report also has to go to Congress, that as much of it as possible ought to be public and that we would have the right of disapproval," Mr. Schumer said in an interview. "That is part of our legislation. That is constitutionally valid; you can have the right of disapproval."
Mr. Bush has vowed to veto any bill giving authority over the deal to Congress, rather than to the executive branch.
Congress, there had better be enough left in your sack to make you stand tall on this and override that twerp. I don't really care if you only do it because elections are coming up and you want to keep your plush jobs. The time has finally come for you to earn your money for a change.
I don't care how strategic and profitable our relations are with the UAE. Keep it overseas. I don't trust 'em as far as I can throw 'em, given their prior terrorist connections. I trust them almost as much as I trust Bush to do right by the American people. In other words, I trust them not at all.
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