Republican chair of 9/11 commission: deal should never have happened

[ProSense]

Bush Pleased With Ports Takeover Delay

President Wants 'Cooling Off' Period

POSTED: 2:33 pm EST February 24, 2006
UPDATED: 2:58 pm EST February 24, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Friday praised as helpful the offer by a United Arab Emirates company to postpone indefinitely its takeover of significant operations at six major U.S. seaports. The delay gives President Bush time to convince skeptical lawmakers the deal poses no increased risks from terrorism.

Lawsuits to upset the $6.8 billion transaction were filed Friday in New Jersey and London.

The White House said it still supports the agreement and said that Bush will continue to oppose any effort by lawmakers to block it.

But Thomas Kean, a Republican, former New Jersey governor and chairman of the Sept. 11 commission, said Friday the deal should not have been brokered. "It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

The company's surprise concession, offered late Thursday, cools the standoff building between the Congress and the president over his administration's previous approval of the deal. In early reaction, lawmakers praised the temporary hold. But some critics pressed anew for an intensive examination of the deal's risks.

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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/7407023/detail.html

Pleased? Cooling off period?


Impeach Now!

[laruemtt]

1. If * takes the congress critters behind closed doors

and they come out supporting this, i will have no other recourse than to believe they have some kind of stepford wife thing where they're programming them to do what * wants. let's just see.

[BR_Parkway]

7. KKKarl and NSA wiretaps - name a Congressman who hasn't had

some private conversation about something that wouldn't absolutely tank him in a re-election campaign? Politics is all wheeling and dealing, horse trading. And I'm willing to bet that very, very few of them have not crossed a line or made a comment they know can't ever get released to the public

The very few who could say that there is nothing in their backgrounds are the very few who consistantly and loudly stand up against these bullies - Conyers, Kucinich, Feingold, et al...

The rest? Compromised. It's the only thing that explains the way they talk a good game, but vote completely opposite. They are more loyal to their own careers and power than they are to country or their oath of office.

And if they ever get too far out of line, KKKarl just sends them a very personal message to remind them that he knows this or that.

[liberal N proud]

2. There is no cooling off period, only a threatening, twisting arm period

This is when KKKarl and his cohorts go out and take congress to the mat on what ever dirt they have on them.

[emulatorloo]

3. Now is the time to bombard the Repug Senators - Rove or America?

That is the choice they must make.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. And why should it have never happened, Tom?

Because it is showing this maladministration, in particular, and the repukes in general off as what they really are, for all the world to see:

Incapable of telling the truth and incapable of governing. Sell their mother and sister for the right deal.

[iconoclastNYC]

5. SWIFT BOAT HIM! Get the IRS to audit him.

[reality based]

6. He doesn't want to sink his son's Senate campaign does he? n/t

[KansDem]

8. Goddamnit! It's not about the "security" (ok, maybe to a certain degree)

The delay gives President Bush time to convince skeptical lawmakers the deal poses no increased risks from terrorism.

But as far as I'm concerned, it's about the fact that the UAE had a significant role in the 9/11 attacks !!!

3,000 Americans were murdered and BushCo wants to reward the UAE with these contracts?????


Wake up, people, what is wrong with this picture?????