Backpeddling Chicken-Excrement Illigitimati

GOP Leaders Draw Back From Bid to Block Port Deal
But Bipartisan Critics on Hill Vow to Force Security Review

A Dubai company's offer to delay taking control of terminal operations at six U.S. ports, combined with aggressive White House lobbying, has tempered a rush by congressional GOP leaders for quick action next week to block the $6.8 billion transaction, which has triggered a political furor.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will meet with House GOP leaders Tuesday to discuss the chamber's next move, while aides to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said he will wait to be briefed by the company before taking a stand. Both Hastert and Frist had issued strong statements earlier raising concerns about national security in the wake of Dubai Ports World's acquisition of the London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. and its terminal operations at six major U.S. ports, including those in New York and Baltimore.

Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Jackson, center, speaks while Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt, second from the right, and Asst. Sec. Bureau Of Economic & Business Affairs for the State Department,Tony Wayne, right, lsiten during a news briefing and question-and-answer session on Captiol Hill
But a bipartisan group of senators, who dismissed the Arab maritime company's offer late Thursday as meaningless, said yesterday that they will try to force a vote early next week on legislation that would require a 45-day national security investigation of the deal.

It didn't take long for the ultra-conservative Republican leadership to cave on this issue. Doesn't it concern anyone that a sitting Republican president threaten to veto any bill that a Republican controlled congress passed to delay the DPW deal... and the chickensh*t bastards running the senate and house are backpeddling and showing their true colors as political cowards? Anyone want to bet that the NSA, DOJ and FBI have secret files on the ultra-cons in congress? Or is it that there is another deal in the works?