What's your prediction re: the Port controversy outcome??

[skooooo]

Will Bush get his way after a "cooling off period?"


Will Republican and Democrats join together to draft a bill banning the deal? Can they override a Bush veto??


Will public opinion change about the idea???

[bluerum]

1. We are hosed. eom

[wryter2000]

2. I'm never right, but here goes

*asshat will find a way to kill it while saving face.

[global1]

3. They're Going To Give * A Pass Again On This Port Deal.....

looks like the fix is in. A 45 day cooling off period. An investigation. And then an approval. The MSM will in the next 45 days spin this to make the UAE look like the best thing to happen to the U.S. since sliced bread. The Dems will be villianized. The Repugs that came out against it will back-off. You could see that that is already happening if you watched the Sunday a.m. shows.

Then it will be all over until the next scandal - or the invasion of Iran - or the next 9/11.

[durablend]

6. Another missing blonde girl to distract the sheeple

Might even be someone famous this time (Britney? Paris? Nicole?) to distract the sheep while they ram this through.

[debbierlus]

10. I think you are right -

Ditto

[zanne]

17. Yup. I hate to admit it....

But I think that's likely to happen. Sure, it'll chip away at Bush's popularity a little more, but of course, we'll have the UAE in charge of the eastern seaboard.

[ingac70]

4. Repubs are already backpedalling....

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/13965021.htm?source=rss&channel=kentucky_state

[rsmith6621]

5. It Will Go Through.........and

We will be hit again and the shrubchimp will impose martial law and the shrubchimp will declare himself KING.

[otohara]

7. The Spin to Paint UAE as Our Bestest Friend in ME

will work, the deal will go through....

[gristy]

8. Whatever the outcome, senate repubs will strengthen their hand

Bush will be weakened, but this is of no concern to the Organizing Committee. Bush is not running for re-election this year.

[spanone]

9. Of course he will get his way, The NSA can wiretap anyone they wish.

Including Senators and Congressmen.

[yurbud]

11. It will pass but weaken right wing support after next terror attack

Even the righties will wonder if he was asleep at the switch and it will be a toss of the dice whether that distrust outweighs their racism toward Iranians.

[Danieljay]

12. Approved! Nothing to see here..move along little robots. n/t

[Independent_Liberal]

13. My prediction...

Enough Democrats and Republicans will join together to override a Bush veto. I also think something about the deal with Halliburton will get revealed and the shit will come down on Cheney very hard. People will probably be screaming at the top of their lungs for his resignation.

[robbedvoter]

14. Overtly - or obscurely, we will be sold to his business buddies.

Just like Social Security is being sucked dry via budget obscure provision and TIA is alive and well. This bunch never drops a juicy bone!
Also, as soon as trouble will emerge, Clinton will be blamed.

[cliss]

15. I'd say it has a 50/50 chance

of going through. NEVER underestimate these creeps' ability to push through their Pet projects, at the expense of everyone else.

BUT even if it goes through, they will never hear the end of the carping. There will be bitching, 24/7 about the "New Operators" and how they're risking our lives, we're doomed,

Because the odds are that something will happen, even if Dubai is a 1st class operator.

Guess who will be blamed? You got it.

[MiniMe]

16. After a 45 day media blitz by the * administration and the rw pundits,

it will pass with the support of Shrub's base. The sheeple will be convinced by Hannity, Rush, Fox News, et al

[High Plains]

18. The deal will go through after the 45-day investigation.

Because despite all the nativist wailing and gnashing of teeth, there will be no security problems found.

[GeorgeGist]

19. If the past tells us anything...

money is always the trump card.

Consider it SOLD.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

20. If the Congress does not pass a law requiring ports to be OURS....

The Bush admin will sell it to a buddy or two, who will re-sell it to the UAE. The Bush Admin has been getting rich sacking our treasury. When our country is finally destroyed the top GOP mega-rich will move to another country, taking the wealth they stole from us with them.

[Disturbed]

21. Rethugs will comply with the Neo Fascists

The Dem Party will whine a little, as usual. The Dem Pary is now a whipped dog that whimpers and whines but runs right up to the food bowl right afterward.

[rock]

22. I'm going against the flow

I think bushsucks* is gonna lose this one.

[Bellamia]

23. Hey, rock........

I hope you're right, oops, make that "correct';>)