DNC blog: President Shrugs off National Security

[madfloridian]

http://www.democrats.org/a/2006/02/president_shrug.php

This time it has to do with national security concerns -- specifically, allowing a foreign country to handle United States port security.

Dubai Ports World's agreed acquisition of US port operations from P&O , the British port operator, was facing jeopardy on Tuesday as more Washington lawmakers, including the Senate's top Republican, threatened to block the deal until it was investigated more thoroughly.
President George W Bush immediately responded by saying he would veto any legislation and warned the US was sending "mixed signals" by raising barriers now when no objection had been made against British ownership. Lawmakers, the president said, must "step up and explain why a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard."

This isn't about holding a Middle Eastern company to a different standard, this is about turning over control of six of our nation's major entrances to ANY foreign country. Even Rick Santorum is outraged:

That's why I'm concerned any time it appears as if we're not taking the terrorist threat seriously enough. As I write you, the control of six major U.S. seaports -- including the Port of Philadelphia -- could be outsourced to the United Arab Emirates, a nation that was implicated in the events of 9/11.
The short-hand version of the email Santorum sent out basically accuses the president himself of not taking national security very seriously. And frankly, it appears he is right. Here is a president that has not used his veto power a single time in his five years of office -- and for this, to hand over our port security to a foreign nation, he is willing to break out the pen for the first time."

[SeattleGirl]

1. I don't know how many times I have read that Chimpy "shrugs"

things off. He really doesn't get it. He's still the fucking cheerleader, the stereotypical cheerleader, empty-headed, without substance (and please note, I said stereotypical -- not everyone who was or is a cheerleader is like that). He wanted the position, but he doesn't give a flying fuck about this country. He doesn't care about the country or the people who inhabit it, outside of himself and his small circle of "have more's". He will NEVER care about anything but that.