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Schadow · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:29 am Post subject: Hang together or hang separately?

This was not a good day for Republican unity.

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LewWaters · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:28 am Post subject:

It feels as if Capt. McQueeg just gained control of the Republican party. Left wing Liberals must be real happy tonight.

dusty · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:50 am Post subject:

Makes one get a clammy feeling all over and break out in cold sweats and go screaming into the night, "No....No....No!"

Common sense is out the door and lunacy reigns.

Dusty[/code]
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msindependent · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:18 am Post subject:

all the knee jerk reaction by members of congress who want to get re-elected makes me ill. i recall a simliar reaction when the 9/11 commission came out. w wanted to take some time with certain aspects of it before jumping in, but nooooooo. well, he was right, we ended up with the fema -homeland defense drama for example. then there was the michael brown ordeal, brownie you did a good job. another knee jerk reaction to get rid of him. (same thing with the trent lott affair). same reaction with miers, who would have voted the same as alito. so, now it's the port deal. i think that i'll hang with the president, he's been right more than they have. the congress is clueless when it comes to looking at the big picture. they should be hanging together, they are going to ruin everything.

msindependent · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:39 am Post subject:

i don't always agree with this blogger, but tonight i do. my brief stint with the republicans is over, i'm back to being an independent (as my name suggests from when i first started reading and posting here). fat chance i will ever vote for a democrat at the national level, but i can't stand with the gutless republican wonders of congress. somebody find them some backbone quick.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2006/03/why_legislators.html

homesteader · PO3 Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 294 Location: wisconsin

I have found it best for my sanity and nerves not to be reactionary to the reactionaries. The life cycle of "crisis" issues seems to be just a few weeks and though it has appeared of late that a succession of "crisis" life cycles have built into a rising tide of reactionarianism (how's that for a new word?), if we step back and take a longer look at things, we can sleep well at night.

Consider what has happened since Clinton and his wonder boys Carville and Bagala began to brow beat us with how evil we are and how great they are.........Dem loss of control of Congress, W elected twice, lower tax rates for a recovering economy, dramatic change to Supreme Court plus hundreds of lower court appointments etc, Sure there are disquieting issues like immigration and excess spending on gov bureaucracy but think of what it would have been. I too wish that Rep. lawmakers would get some backbone. It would accelerate and smooth out the demise of liberalism. Their fecklessness may be slowing the progress but I do not see it reversing (yet) the progress being made in discrediting liberalism/socialism. For that to happen the Dems will have to decide what they are for besides "hate Bush".

Watching and listening to our President reminds me of The Little Engine That Could or the Turtle who raced the rabbit. I also get the image of Indaina Jones, who when confronted with a whirling, sword and dagger whielding Ninja, stands and watches a few moments in bemusement, pulls out a pistol and shoots him in the face.

Let's keep the faith.

shawa · CNO Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 2004

Well said, homesteader!!
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Uisguex Jack · Rear Admiral Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 613

I'm still against the port deal going thru.... Congress will be screwed up for as long as time allows.

homesteader · PO3 Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 294 Location: wisconsin

Congressional critics to the port deal remind me of a cook our family had when I was a kid living in a Muslim country. She was a Muslim and would not touch pork (when described as pig in Arabic), not even to cook it for us. My mother broke the code and told her it was "jambon" (French for ham). Well that was OK and she had not problem cooking jambon and would even eat it.

This afternoon it seems that the royal family of Dubai has broken the code and will now call the US part of its P&O purchase "jambon" which will be acceptable to the ignorants.

This is embarrassing!!!!!!

Schadow · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

msindependent · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:52 pm Post subject:

it looks like dp world took the high road and yanked the deal, pretty smart move on their part in more ways than one.

fortdixlover · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:34 am Post subject:

Uisguex Jack · Rear Admiral Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 613

Army_(Ret) · Lt.Jg. Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 108

If this story continues to have legs, it's going to be the biggest embarassment yet, even bigger than Dan Rather's forged AWOL papers, and John Kerry.
The real loser here is American Security in the Dubai Ports as the U.S. Navy loses it's terminals and American businesses, such as Boeing's sales of 777's to the UAE.
Basically, American security was flushed down the toilet, ironically, by politicians who claimed they were on the moral high ground about "security".
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