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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (727511)	2/22/2006 7:07:36 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"Bush has needlessly backed himself into a corner." No more so then with his initial opposition to the Department of Homeland Security (subsequently reversed field, and embraced with gusto...), maybe even less so then with Miers.

To: Bill who wrote (727511)	2/22/2006 9:07:27 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

... Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) issued a strongly worded statement via his campaign on Tuesday opposing the Bush Administration's action on the port operations. Santorum says in the statement that after learning of "this troubling situation last week" he took immediate action, calling for an investigation to stop the transfer of control of the ports, which includes the Port of Philadelphia. Republican candidate for the US Senate from New Jersey, Tom Kean, Jr. offered this written statement: "In a post 9/11 world, it is an outrage that President Bush would allow the sale of American ports to a foreign company based in a country with ties to terrorism. The White House has turned a deaf ear to the Congressional uproar over the decision to allow a state owned United Arab Emirates shipping firm to pay over six billion dollars to acquire six major United States ports - including one right here in New Jersey." abcnews.go.com (Note: UAE one of the few countries in the world to ever recognize the Taliban....)