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RUSH: You know, folks, I\u2019m beginning to wonder here. Everybody is talking about ‘outsourcing.\u2019 It may be time to outsource Congress! This is embarrassing to watch this. I don\u2019t care what you think about the port deal, this is just embarrassing. Greetings, my friends, and welcome, the award-winning, thrill-packed Rush Limbaugh program here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Three full hours of broadcast excellence today. The telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address is Rush@eibnet.com. I am not kidding. Outsource Congress! They\u2019ve gone from playing politics, and then they go to panic, then they go to a stampede. Now it\u2019s a lynch mob. <\/p>\n

It is just a lynch mob, and the Democrats and Republicans are in a race here to see who can be more opposed to the port deal, the best and the fastest, and in this contest, the Republicans have won, and they\u2019re sitting there beating their chests like a bunch of Tarzans, and everybody\u2019s watching this, and in the meantime, Dubai is getting irritated. ‘Dubai is threatening retaliation against American strategic and commercial interests if Washington blocks its $6.8 billion takeover of operations at several U.S. ports. As the House Appropriations Committee yesterday marked up legislation to kill…\u2019 the port deal, ‘the UAE let it be known that it is preparing to hit back hard if necessary. A source close to the deal said members of Dubai\u2019s royal family are furious at the hostility both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have shown toward the deal. ‘They\u2019re saying, ‘All we\u2019ve done for you guys, all our purchases, we\u2019ll stop it, we\u2019ll just yank it,” the source said. <\/p>\n

Retaliation from the emirate could come against lucrative deals with aircraft maker Boeing and by curtailing the docking of hundreds of American ships, including U.S. Navy ships, each year at its port in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the source added. It is not clear how much of Dubai\u2019s behind-the-scenes anger would be followed up by action, but Boeing has been made aware of the threat and is already reportedly lobbying to save the ports deal. The Emirates Group airline will decide later this year whether it will buy Boeing\u2019s new 787 Dreamliner or its competitor, Airbus A350. The airline last fall placed an order worth $9.7 billion for 42 Boeing 777 aircraft, making Dubai Boeing\u2019s largest 777 customer.\u2019 The sheikhdom, the United Arab Emirates, ‘may buy as many as 50 wide-body aircraft from Boeing and Airbus during the next four years, according to Aerospace Enterprise officials.\u2019<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re mad over there. I do understand it. I don\u2019t blame them being mad about this, and they\u2019ve also said that if this doesn\u2019t go through, “The days of us helping you in the war on terror are also over.” They\u2019re sitting there and they don\u2019t understand this. They probably understand it to a point. Let\u2019s go to the audiotape. The audiotape will set this up. This is after the Senate appropriations committee vote on the Dubai — they didn\u2019t even wait for the 45 days. The 45 days is supposed to have a much further scrutiny of the port deal, find out exactly what it is, find out if any risks involved. They didn\u2019t even wait for the 45 days, and this is purely because it\u2019s an election year. The substance of this issue is not being dealt with. <\/line>Emotionalism is rampant. Emotionalism and fear is what\u2019s driving this — and not fear of terrorism, fear of elections coming up in November of this year. The Republicans in both the Senate and the House are just paranoid that the Democrats got out in front of them on this on a national security issue, and I gave them the recipe for smoking the Democrats on this. The Democrats are not concerned about national security. The Democrats are doing what they always do: they\u2019re posturing; they\u2019re making it up. They\u2019re camouflaging themselves. Way to smoke them out on this and expose them for who they are. “Nope, don\u2019t have time for it. We\u2019ve got to get out in front of them now. We\u2019ve got constituents out there.” I know you\u2019ve got constituents out there, but nobody is thinking about this. Everybody is just reacting to it. I\u2019ve never seen something as reactionary as this. So the audio sound bites will tell you the tale. This is Jerry Lewis, after the house appropriations committee vote on the Dubai ports, the chairman of the committee, Jerry Lewis, he\u2019s a Republican from California, made this announcement.<\/line>LEWIS: This is a national security issue. This is a national security bill. We want to make sure that the security of our ports is in America\u2019s hands.<\/line>RUSH: And so with that, they sent a message. The Republicans today are telling the White House, President Bush: “This deal isn\u2019t going to happen. We\u2019re going to reject this deal. We don\u2019t want any part of this deal.” They\u2019re up there sending messages back and forth even now. Those are the news alerts that are flying around even as we speak. So the Democrats yesterday got all bent out of shape because they got outmaneuvered by somebody named Jerry Lewis. They got outmaneuvered by the Republicans and they can\u2019t stand it. They\u2019re just fed up with this, especially the Democrats in the Senate, because they thought that they were the ones that were the face of this bill. They were the face of the opposition, the Democrats, and now here the Republicans have beat \u2019em in this race. The Republicans have stolen their thunder, and they\u2019re not happy about it. We have a montage. Chuck Schumer and Senator Dick Durbin.<\/line>SCHUMER: We believe that a majority of senators, an overwhelming majority would vote to end the deal. Enough of them have said that already. And we\u2019re not going to rest \u2019til we get a vote on this issue.<\/line>DURBIN: The Republican leadership in the United States Senate does not want to face a vote on the Dubai port deal, not this afternoon, not this evening, not tomorrow, maybe not ever, but they will. They\u2019re going to be held accountable to the American people.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, the Senate! Here\u2019s Durbin threatening other senators. They don\u2019t want to vote, we\u2019re going to make them vote, because we\u2019re going to be accountable to the American people. Folks, if you don\u2019t know how you\u2019re being manipulated on this — if you don\u2019t know how you are being railroaded on this, if you don\u2019t know how poorly you are being represented in all of this — here, we\u2019ve got a montage. Dingy Harry. Dingy Harry had to get in here. He had to compliment Schumer. He had to say to Chuck Schumer, “You — you — are the face! You are the face of the Dubai port deal opposition.” If you hear this stuff you understand what this is really all about.<\/line><\/p>\n

REID: My friend from New York who has been out front on this issue from the very beginning, Senator Schumer, came to the floor and offered an amendment which was going to be offered, and his having been out in front, I\u2019m glad that he\u2019s — he\u2019s the personality, he\u2019s the — he\u2019s the face of this amendment. He deserves it. He was the first one to notice this issue —<\/line>RUSH: Stop the tape. Stop! Do you see what this is about? “Whoa, who is Jerry Lewis? Chuck Schumer is the guy that made this happen. He\u2019s the face of the bill. He was the first one out there. He\u2019s the one that called everybody\u2019s attention. Chuck Schumer is the hero in this bill — and I, Dingy Harry, am going to make sure that it\u2019s Democrats who are the face of victory in opposing the port deal and sinking it.” Here\u2019s the rest of Dingy Harry\u2019s little sound bite.<\/line> REID: — anywhere else. So I admire the work that he\u2019s done on this issue. We, Mr. President, can\u2019t turn over control of these ports to a foreign country. That\u2019s what this is. This isn\u2019t a foreign company. It\u2019s a foreign country. We stand ready to vote on this port matter, after a very short debate.<\/line>RUSH: All right, now, once these guys start talking, you know whose not far behind — and that\u2019s John McCain. John McCain had to get in on this, and he\u2019s all upset that the Senate is moving so fast on this. He says it\u2019s the Senate that\u2019s supposed to be the saucer that cools the drink, cools the coffee. Here\u2019s his bite.<\/line>McCAIN: What I saw happen yesterday and what I\u2019ve seen transpire here makes me very, very concerned and even, to a degree, saddened, at the way that the Senate has degenerated and deteriorated from an atmosphere of a willingness to address issues in the fashion that the Senate has to, which has to do with sitting down, discussing, agreeing, and moving forward. We\u2019re not the other body. I see this institution deteriorating and degenerating to a point where sometimes I am not only embarrassed, but sometimes a little ashamed.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah. Yeah, well, I happen to agree with Senator McCain. I\u2019m ashamed of all of them. The House side, too. That\u2019s what he means by “the other body,” and it\u2019s because this is pure politics. They\u2019re not paying attention to any ancillary ramifications of this: the effect it will have on Dubai, the effect it will have on perhaps losing an ally. The effect it will have on the war on terror — especially if you\u2019ve taken the time, which I don\u2019t think these people have even yet done that. If you take the time to look at the deal, if you take the time to actually look at what\u2019s going to be the end result, we are not going to have, as Dingy Harry lied, a foreign country running our ports. It\u2019s terminals in the ports. It\u2019s nothing like what they are saying it\u2019s going to be, and everybody is just having their fear ginned up and ratcheted up here all for the selfish concerns of election-year politics — and the Republicans are just as guilty as the Democrats. <\/line>Republicans, in a way, I mean the Democrats were out front on this, going nuts on it first, the Republicans in a race, you know, if you want to find something good — and I always try to find something good in everything, folks, because there always is something good to find. The something good to find is the Republicans have turned the tables on the Democrats, and if there is any victory, if there is anything to be gained in this, it is this little political maneuver that they\u2019ve pulled off, which has demonstrated clearly that they were the ones, the Republican Party is not going to sit here and stand for our ports to be overrun by a bunch of terrorists, we\u2019re just not going to put up with it. One more McCain and we\u2019ll take a break. This speaks for itself, and if it doesn\u2019t, I\u2019ll translate it for you.<\/line>McCAIN: The Senator from New York came to the floor and said, and I quote, just before the vote, reserving the right to object, because he was reserving the right to object to a unanimous consent agreement, as we do business here by unanimous agreement, before we set it aside on this amendment. On this amendment. On this amendment. That was his statement. It\u2019s part of the record. And then, when he was recognized, he reached into his pocket, reached into his pocket and pulled out an amendment. Now, Mr. President, it is the right of every Senator under the rules to propose an amendment. It is not the right of every senator to mislead his colleagues. It is not the right of every senator. How can we do business, how can we do business in this floor if our colleagues mislead us?<\/line>RUSH: All right, so what McCain is saying here is that Schumer has committed a crime against the Senate; that he lied in order to sneak in his amendment, and McCain is steamed. This is from the floor of the Senate this morning. The amendment deals with lobbying and other things. They\u2019re sneaking the port deal thing in a bill that has to do with lobbying and gifts and all that sort of stuff — and this is Schumer just basically trying to get his port deal rammed through the Senate without the deliberateness and the deliberations and the reasoned analysis that Senator McCain says the Senate is so well known for. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Chuck Schumer\u2019s response to the assertion by Senator McCain that he\u2019s basically thwarting the procedures of the Senate.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: Many of us have come to the conclusion, the same conclusion that Jerry Lewis in the House came to, and I guess 62 of the 64 appropriations members, bipartisan, in the House appropriations committee came to that this deal should be stopped. We don\u2019t have the luxury of waiting. That appropriations bill may not get over here \u2019til April, the supplemental. It may not be voted on \u2019til may. The deal will be consummated and done and then they\u2019ll say you can\u2019t undo it. There will be constitutional and legal problems. We have to act now. Our job, my job as I represent 19 million New Yorkers, is to see that they\u2019re secure, above all. I believe that we must vote on this amendment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Want to make me puke. Secure? Your job as you represent New Yorkers is to see that they\u2019re secure? Well, welcome to the party, because for the last three or four years I haven\u2019t gotten the impression that the Democrats care a whit about that, and I don\u2019t think that they care about it in this. I don\u2019t think that has a thing to do with it, Senator. You can say it does, and I know you will continue to, but it doesn\u2019t have a thing to do with it. Now, I just checked my e-mail, and I know you people are mad at me about this, and I understand why. Go ahead, be mad at me. A guy writes in, and he says, ‘Well, you know, you can\u2019t have it both ways. You sit there and attack members of Congress for not doing what we want them do and now they\u2019re doing what we want them to do because the polls are 80% against this. You can\u2019t have it both ways, Rush.\u2019<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to have it any way or both ways. I\u2019m just suggesting to you that the reason all this is happening is not what you think it is. The reason all this is happening is fear, election year politics. This is gutlessness; this is not courageous. What you\u2019re watching is not courageous. This is the easiest thing in the world for these guys to do, what Peter King has done. He\u2019s the Long Island congressman who accused me of being ‘in the tank\u2019 for the Bush administration and said that I was the reason that there was any slowdown in opposition to the bill, blamed me for that. In the House, they\u2019re going to tie this bill to an amendment or make it an amendment to a bill that funds the troops, so they\u2019re going to force Bush to choose, ‘You want the port deal, or do you want to fund the troops in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters?\u2019 I mean, (laughing) this is just so, so irrational. All the while they think they\u2019re being ‘courageous\u2019 and showing a lot of guts. I think it\u2019s just the exact opposite. Barbara Boxer. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

BOXER: We have to stop. We have to stop this deal from going forward. Listen, that deal was greased. That deal was greased. The president\u2019s all for it. He said he didn\u2019t know anything about it, but 50 seconds later he was all for it. This is our only chance today, unless there\u2019s an agreement to have a stand-alone bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re arguing here about the Schumer amendment that he snuck in there, and that\u2019s what got McCain all peed off (yeah, teed off. It was close) and here\u2019s Boxer saying the deal was greased. Yeah, let me tell you who greased it. Bill Clinton greased the deal. That still isn\u2019t being discussed in all this. Bill Clinton is the guy — George Bush\u2019s ‘brother\u2019 — who\u2019s out there lobbying for this deal while his wife is out there pontificating against it, all the while their family is financially enriched because of the payments Clinton\u2019s getting as an unregistered agent or lobbyist for a foreign concern. He hadn\u2019t even done that. That\u2019s required by law. He\u2019s out there advising these guys. He\u2019s the one that greased it. You call \u2019em up. <\/p>\n

In fact, if I were Dubai, I\u2019d sue Clinton for malpractice because he told them, ‘Hey, you go in and propose a 45-day wait.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Dubai said, ‘Okay, well, we\u2019ll do it, a 45-day wait.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, the 45-day wait has been used by Clinton\u2019s — well, the Republicans and Clinton\u2019s own party — to sabotage the deal. They didn\u2019t have to do this, but they did, trying to calm everybody\u2019s concerns about this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, to show you how it\u2019s disintegrating out there particularly on the Democrat side, this was on C-SPAN\u2019s Washington Journal today. Maxine Waters was the guest, and this is what she said about the port deal.<\/line>WATERS: We thought that after 9\/11, this president — who made the cornerstone of his presidency the war on terrorism — really was on top of what could be done to secure the homeland. Don\u2019t forget, he led the leadership on creating the homeland, uh… department, and we started to live under orange and yellow and red signals and alerts because this president said that we had to be on top of it, and I know you feel duped to find out that even after 9\/11 and supposedly lessons learned, here we are in the middle of negotiating a contract with a country that is suspect.<\/line>RUSH: What is she saying? She almost says that 9\/11 never really happened, that Bush just made that up and it\u2019s a trick? I can\u2019t follow this anymore. All right, let\u2019s go the phones. To Hartford, Connecticut: Neil, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Rush, fellow highly trained broadcast specialist dittos, sir.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: Listen, I\u2019m not a person prone to violence so I need you to calm me down before I do something I\u2019m going to regret. Peter King needs to put on a flak jacket and go to Baghdad and explain to my friends and relatives who are in uniform why he painted our president, our commander-in-chief into a corner and forced him into a position where, in order to keep his word to the American people and veto anything that\u2019s got the port deal attached to it, he\u2019s going to have to pull out the rug from underneath our men and women in uniform. Peter King needs to haul his greasy butt over to Baghdad and explain that to my friends and relatives who are getting shot at every day, why he deliberately tried to get the funding pulled out from under them.<\/line>RUSH: Thanks, Neil. Very well said, in a highly trained broadcast specialist way. I think Peter King feels rather heroic today. Look, an honest analysis of what he did, you\u2019d have to say it\u2019s smart. He got what he wanted. This is the way our system works. What he did, the best way to explain this, the House appropriations committee voted 62-2 yesterday to approve an amendment to block the deal, and this amendment is to an emergency spending bill that would fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and additional Hurricane Katrina relief. <\/line>That bill, expected to be considered on the House floor next week, of course it will pass overwhelmingly, because it\u2019s primarily a deal to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and more Hurricane Katrina aid. Nobody is going to vote against that, and an amendment to that bill is what Peter King put in there, saying that there will not be any Dubai ports deal. And that\u2019s why king is running around bragging, he\u2019ll say, “Hey, the president\u2019s gotta make up his mind here. He wants the port deal or he wants to support the troops.” So to people who oppose the port deal, this is a great maneuver. This is a fabulous parliamentary maneuver, brilliant thinking and so forth. The White House is saying, “Oh, yeah? Well, we\u2019re not retracting our veto threat. We might still veto it, then where will you guys be?” <\/line>When you get into showdowns like this it can be great entertainment and great fun, but there\u2019s a lot at stake. As I continue to say, folks, it\u2019s the motivations behind this that just really, really, really bug me. They really, really do. The way these people are acting is like kids, just totally emotionally. It\u2019s like dealing with liberals all over the place. Here we have a couple Peter King sound bites. Last night he was on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. Wolf said, “Is it too late to find some sort of compromise? This notion of a subsidiary, an American subsidiary, perhaps taking charge of these six ports? Is that something that you still think could be worked out?”<\/line>KING: That train has left the station, and I think that Dubai ports was too — too reluctant and too slow to take advantage of that. I got the impression that the White House didn\u2019t realize until the last one or two days how severe this issue was, and there\u2019s no way I see the House changing its mind on this issue. I really think that DPW was — was really too slow to move. They were in a way, arrogant, they were locked in, they did not have any comprehension of the political realities nor do they understand the legitimate concerns that the American people had.<\/line>RUSH: How do you know? There was a 45-day period, we\u2019re in it now, where you\u2019re supposed to address all of that. What do you mean they\u2019re too slow to move? What are they supposed to do, come up to Capitol Hill and bare all to you guys? They were up there yesterday testifying, the CEO of the outfit, DPW, and he wasn\u2019t wearing a headdress or a turban and he didn\u2019t have an Arab name. I know that\u2019s just a front. I know they\u2019re just trying to appease us, fool us. They actually have a white guy — white hair and everything — as the CEO. He looked as respectable as Marlin Perkins did back in the Mutual of Omaha\u2019s Wild Kingdom days. Remember those, Rachel? Rachel doesn\u2019t. She\u2019s too young. Do you remember those days, Brian? You probably don\u2019t remember those days. <\/line>More from Peter King. Really, what are they supposed to do? That 45-day wait was used as a race by the Republicans against the Democrats to see who could cross the finish line first. <\/line>“I stopped the port deal! I did! Notice me! I stopped it!” <\/line><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got Chuck Schumer over there, “No, I\u2019m the face of the port deal! I was the first to say it was a bad deal.” <\/line><\/a> “Well, too late because I\u2019m Jerry Lewis and I got the votes before you guys did in the Senate, so the Republicans stopped the deal.”<\/line>“No, I did it! You wouldn\u2019t have done it,” says Schumer, “If it weren\u2019t for me!”<\/line>And Dingy Harry gets in, “That\u2019s right! Senator Schumer should be the face of this deal. We in the Senate must be.”<\/line>And McCain is saying, “Slow down.”<\/line>“It\u2019s too late,” Peter King said, “Train\u2019s left the station.”<\/line>So Wolf said, “Well, what about the White House threat, the threat directly from the president, early on? He boldly came out and said, ‘I will veto any such legislation that would torpedo this deal.\u2019 Do you think he still would veto legislation?”<\/line>KING: I don\u2019t see how he can, because this amendment is going to be part of the supplemental appropriation which pays for the war in Iraq. I don\u2019t see how the president of the United States as commander-in-chief can veto the appropriation that he needs for the war to be carried on. So it\u2019s going to be very difficult. I don\u2019t see how the president can do it because in effect he would be putting the United Arab Emirates before the welfare of the American troops. And this president I know does not want to do that.<\/line>RUSH: So let\u2019s go Hardball last night. Chris Matthews talking to Christopher Hitchens, and the question, “So, when we put our flags in our shipping, we were doing — what\u2019s the relevance to all this, Chris?”<\/line>HITCHENS: So sad to see these black chauvinists at the top of the show and xenophobes. If it matters, this is not an Arab company, it\u2019s not run by Arabs or this paranoid horror show talk you get all the time. It\u2019s a multinational effort partly run by United Kingdom, partly by others. It\u2019s just — it\u2019s really using the most abject, lowest propaganda for the cheapest purposes. And as for national security, don\u2019t — I mean don\u2019t start. This is — no other people making these asinine remarks know or care anything about national security.<\/line>RUSH: Well, they may care about it, but I agree with him, this is not what this is about. I think they may know about national security, but what he knows is the Democrats haven\u2019t cared a whit about national security since the Iraq war started, and they really intensified in the last year their obvious lack of concern about national security. That\u2019s why they don\u2019t win elections. Everybody knows they can\u2019t be trusted with it. So he\u2019s exactly right. That\u2019s not what this is about. Now, another guest was on this show defending the Democrats for taking advantage of an opportunity here, and Hitchens said, “Yeah, it\u2019s called opportunism.” The other guest is the Washington Post\u2019s Eugene Robinson, and he was asked to respond to what you just heard Hitchens say.<\/line>ROBINSON: Well, you know, I don\u2019t think you can blame the Democrats for kind of piling on here. I mean it\u2019s an opportunity —<\/line>HITCHENS: Yes, I can.<\/line>ROBINSON: It\u2019s opportunities you have if you\u2019re in the condition that the Democratic Party is right now.<\/line>HITCHENS: That\u2019s called “opportunism.” Not to interrupt you, but it\u2019s called opportunism.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s called opportunism and what he means by that is there\u2019s no real statesmanship going on here, it\u2019s just political opportunity. It\u2019s election year politics is what it is. Jeff in Indianapolis, I\u2019m glad you called, sir, welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Yes. Thank you for taking my call.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s kind of strange that you\u2019re focusing on how much money Bill Clinton took from the people in Dubai, but let\u2019s just remember that there\u2019s Republican, former Republican Senator Bob Dole hired as a lobbyist for that group to lobby the deal on Capitol Hill.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah?<\/line>CALLER: So, I mean, it\u2019s people on both sides.<\/line>RUSH: I think Bob Dole\u2019s probably a registered lobbyist. Bill Clinton isn\u2019t. Bill Clinton is doing it on the sly, under the table so to speak — or the bed. Who knows where it was going on. The point s he\u2019s got a wife in the Senate who is voting and commenting and doing all kind of things on this, and she is essentially taking the same money that Clinton is getting because they\u2019re a family. It has to be reported on her financial disclosure forms, but Clinton “greased the deal,” if anybody did. I\u2019m not saying it disqualifies the deal. I\u2019m just saying you let anybody else do what Clinton is doing in the exact same circumstances, and it would be the headlines of this story, right along with the so-called security threat that is posed by all this. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Mike, Washington, DC. You\u2019re next. Nice to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, Rush, good to talk to you, man.<\/line>RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: This is getting insane here with the protectionism that\u2019s going on. If you start closing off ports, then you start closing off — talk about closing off airlines, what next? We start keeping foreign investors out of pretty much everything in this country, like trucking industry, financial industry, pharmaceuticals, tech companies, and this is getting insane. I was watching, I think on Fox the other day, and I heard this guy, Ed Feulner of the Heritage Foundation talk about a book, asking questions, ‘Is it the government\u2019s business to do things in legislation?\u2019 This, to me, is going far beyond the government\u2019s business on what this country needs. If you start getting lawmakers telling certain companies they cannot invest in this country, that goes against the very principles that we are founded on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We do. There\u2019s a whole bureaucracy set up that examines all of these deals, all of these opportunities that foreign investors to want get in. Yesterday we learned that the latest to come down the pike is that the US airline industry wants to be able to for the first time accept foreign investment, and they\u2019re having trouble. You know, this will never go. If the port deal is going to be bombed out, that will never happen on the same basis. Look, let me be clear about something here. Congress has every right to do all this, and the White House is not exactly exemplified itself here. They\u2019ve not made themselves innocent in this whole thing. <\/p>\n

They came out… I mean, there\u2019s just too much stupidity everywhere. There\u2019s stupidity in Congress, the way they\u2019re dealing with this, but I sort of understand why. The president came down, threw down the gauntlet. He said, ‘I don\u2019t care what you do. You can do a 45-day wait. This deal is going through\u2019. I mean, he threw down the gauntlet. Well, you know, the traditional battle for power between the executive and legislative branches is a traditional part of our political system, so the president comes out and says, ‘Screw you! This deal is happening. I don\u2019t care if we wait 45 days or not, and I don\u2019t care what the 45 day shows up. This deal is happening.\u2019<\/p>\n

Congress says, ‘Screw you! You want to make sure it happens, then here\u2019s what you go to do and we\u2019re going to make sure it doesn\u2019t happen,\u2019 and so Peter King comes up with his technique, and plus Congress has something very powerful on their side, and that\u2019s all of you. I mean, the constituents for these guys are pounding their doors down and ringing their phones and probably jamming up their computers with e-mail, ‘No to the ports deal.\u2019 So the members of Congress are flexing their muscles here when they\u2019ve got the power, and this is traditional. Neither side here has been exemplary. What I think is something about this that really is a point to be made here is that this 45-day review period was demanded, and it\u2019s being ignored, and because of that, we\u2019re not going to really learn what the security issues were, because obviously we\u2019re not going to do the review. <\/p>\n

The review has just been killed. So the whole point of having the 45 days to figure out, ‘Okay, what is this really all about? How did this happen? Who are these people?\u2019 We\u2019re still not going to know. This is all because both parties are in a race to see who could be the first to cross the finish line, think, ‘I did it. I won! I stopped the port deal. I stopped the port deal.\u2019 I have to also admit, all the things going on out there, I\u2019ve been trying to get away from this issue. It won\u2019t go away. Today is evidence of it, but to think that this deal is occupying so much of what\u2019s going on in the country when there are so many other issues out there that are seemingly more important, relevant, timely. I\u2019ll tell you why that is, because this is raw emotion, and this has taken on the aspects of a spectator sport, and the gladiators are up there in Capitol Hill, the emperor is up there in his box suite, in the owner\u2019s box in the White House, and we are the spectators, and we\u2019re watching all this as though it\u2019s an event.<\/p>\n

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