VandeHei: Bush feels Repub feedback on Port Deal is a "personal affront"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Keith Olbermann examined the outcry over the Dubai deal. Our resident pool boy-Jim VandeHei showed up to give Bush some much needed support. Craig Crawford also came on to lend a hand.



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VANDEHEI: I thought he was a lot more animated on the plane. He really seemed fired up and sort of ready and willing to have this fight. You know, he's let it go on for the last couple of days, and he's gotten a lot of pressure from Republicans and Democrats to come out and to defend why he's doing this deal. ---- I think he really takes this as a personal affront, you know, having Republicans challenges his commitment to terrorism. Love him or hate him, this guy has been very passionate about fighting terrorism, and I think he‘s very surprised that Republicans are now questioning whether he would allow a deal to go through that could actually jeopardize national security.



VANDEHEI: I mean, if you watched Fox News or if you listened to conservative talk radio or call-in shows on C-Span, I've never seen conservatives this fired up, at least since the Harriet Miers controversy, where he had to withdrawn her nomination, in questioning the president. So they knew he had to start defining before he‘s defined.

VANDEHEI: I think he's really worried about the perception globally. And also, with the United Arab Emirates. Remember, this is an ally on the war on terror. And that just isn't just a slogan, that means that they allow us docking rights on the Persian Gulf coast in that country, and they provide other support.

I seem to rememeber that when the right wing bloggers that were offended by the Miers nomination went ballisitic- they weren't painted as lunatics as we are whenever we have a legitimate complaint.

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[FSogol]

1. He'll probably take it personally when he is impeached also. n/t

[July]

4. Good one, FSogol! nt

[bushmeister0]

2. Dubya'

Oh, the poor emperor, he doesn't like being questioned. Isn't that just too bad.

Jesus, it's about time Congress grew a pair and started acting like a branch of government. You've got to figure all these poor republican bastards, the few that actually have viable challengers, have got to be staining their pants brown over this whole thing. No wonder their beside themselves over this.

I mean, now more than ever they're going to be running in the other direction whenever Dubya' comes to town. I say, more power to him. Come on Dubya', come to Pennsylvania and stick real close to Rick Santorum.

You know, if I were W. I'd sit the congressional republicans down and have Ned Beatty come in and repeat the speech he gave to Howard Beale in Network:

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. Is that clear? You think you merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken millions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man, who thinks in terms of nations, and peoples. There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no Russians, there are no Arabs, there are no Third Worlds; there is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and interwoven, interacting, multi-variant, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, Rubles, Pounds and Sheckles."

[calimary]

5. Welcome to DU! And thanks for your post, with a quote from my favorite

movie EVER: "Network." So brilliant it's scary. And it gets scarier EVERY DAY.

[JeffR]

3. "his commitment to terrorism"... WTF

On second thought, I've never doubted how committed he is to terrorism.
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