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March 14, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 14, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I have some stacks of stuff here, and guess what is at the top of stack number one?
The porch deal.
Yay!
Hubba hubba.
That is exactly right.
Greetings, folks.
Welcome back.
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The Dubai-owned company that promised to surrender its U.S. port operations has no immediate plans to sell its interests at Miami's seaport.
This, according to a senior executive, he wrote Monday in a private email to business associates.
Even if DP World were to sell its Miami operations to quell the congressional furor over an Arab-owned company managing major U.S. ports, that would probably take a while, wrote Robert Scavone, a vice president for DP World's U.S. subsidiary.
So for all this that's happened, they still own a port, and they say they're not going to sell this one.
They're going to keep the port that they have in Miami.
I love it.
I don't know why.
I just love it.
And then we have a development on another U.S. entity that might, in fact, be making moves soon to acquire the DP World port interests that they've promised to sell.
Private equity firm, the Carlisle Group, has established a team to acquire public purpose facilities such as ports a day after the United Arab Emirates said that it would transfer newly acquired operations to a U.S. organization.
The Carlisle Group is despised as much on the left as is Halliburton.
They despise it.
Carlisle Group's made up of a bunch of former big-time government bigwigs, and they're all gazillionaires, and they are thought to work in secret under the cover of darkness, manipulating world affairs for their own back pockets' benefit.
And so this is, they've announced an eight-person team that would invest in public-purpose infrastructure projects such as ports, transportation, and water facilities, airports, bridges, and stadiums.
The team will begin work on March 13th.
They're going to branch out into this.
Well, they say their new infrastructure team has been planned for six months, but the Carlisle Group decided Thursday to launch it.
Now, the Carlisle Group doesn't want to be the entity that it manages, said their spokes.
We have zero interest in that deal, and we will continue to have no interest, but we are interested in brokering a deal for some buyers so we can get a take and be involved.
And there's still a possibility that Halliburton will get involved in this or that Carlisle will call Halliburton and they'll get together.
And the fireworks will just continue to roll on.
All right.
Senator Frist yesterday called the bluff of Senator Feingold on this censure business, and it was delectable.
It was just, it was a beautiful thing, ladies and gentlemen, because once again, we found, I told yesterday it was a gift.
The Democrats telling us who they really are, but they're scared to show us.
And so Feingold's left swinging in the wind all by himself.
And all he accomplished yesterday was making a solid appeal to the lunatic fringe of the Democrat base.
But the Democrats didn't want to go along with it.
Harry Reid was said when Frist went up to him, go ahead, go ahead, have a vote.
The floor is yours.
Let's have a vote on this right now.
And Reed supposedly looked sick when he said no.
I don't think he looks good anyway when he's supposedly feeling good, but he didn't feel good about this.
Let's review.
This is late yesterday on the Senate floor.
Here is Russ Feingold himself.
When the President of the United States breaks the law, he must be held accountable.
That is why today I'm introducing a resolution to censure President George W. Bush.
The President authorized an illegal program to spy on American citizens on American soil.
And then misled the Congress and the public about the existence and the legality of that program.
Up next, Senator Frist is a portion of his response.
Are we talking about censure of the president in the United States at a time of war when this president is out defending the American people with a very good, lawful constitutional program?
It is serious business.
And if it is an issue that the other side of the aisle wants to debate or debate through the night, I guess we're willing to do that as well.
But the censure of the president is important, and if they want to make an issue of it, we're willing to do just that.
Inviting them to go ahead and vote.
Way to go, Senator Frist.
This wasn't that bold a move because everybody knew the Democrats weren't going to support this, but it was refreshing because it didn't show cowering in the corner and it didn't show any kind of fear.
So the threat here was exposed that Democrats, once again, did not have the fortitude to move ahead with this.
And this is their problem.
They can say and they can huff and puff, but when it comes down to it, they're incompetent.
They just, they simply do not have the ability to follow through on all these things.
It's all for show.
And it's all about campaigns and appealing to the base.
Here is Senator Specter, who also responded to Feingold on the floor of the Senate late yesterday.
I think all would concede that the president is doing the best job he can and is diligent.
May not agree with him, may not think his best job satisfactory, but no one has ever accused him of bad faith.
And in the absence of any showing of bad faith, who has standing to censure and condemn the president and then not stay in the chamber to debate the issue?
Yes, you see, that is key.
Feingold fled after offering his censure movement.
He fled the Senate.
He fled the Senate floor, and Specter called him out on it.
Specter said, come on, come on back in and debate this.
Let's debate this and let's have a vote.
Up next, Senator Lieberman.
This is a critically important program to the prevention of terrorist acts here in the United States.
And I don't know a person here in the Senate who is against this program.
Exactly right.
Nobody in the Senate has said shut it down.
Nobody in the Senate has said stop it.
What they've said is, hey, hey, you can't do this without telling us.
We want to be in on this so we can leak it to the New York Times.
And Lieberman points out, well, how can you censure the president with something nobody opposes?
Nobody is willing to stand up and say pull the program.
Up next was Senator Biden on the Today Show today.
Katie Couric interviewed him, and she said, Feingold introduced a resolution to censure the president.
What do you think of his doing that?
And do you think this is, as Republicans have said, grandstanding for 08?
No, I think it's born out of intense frustration.
We should really censure the Intelligence Committee and the Republican-led Congress for not having hearings.
Do any of you in the news media or any of us have any idea what the president's doing?
This is outrageous.
We have no idea what this program is.
They're getting crazier.
Now they want to censure the Republican Congress.
They don't have the guts to follow through censuring the president.
Now Biden, who thinks of himself as a serious and optimistic candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has suggested censuring the whole House and the Intelligence Committee.
And Senator, do you realize how disconnected this all sounds?
If you don't know what the program is, and if you can't find out what the program is, and if it's outrageous, then why don't you demand that it be curtailed?
There were hearings on this anyway.
We had the Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez testify for an entire day.
There were judiciary committees, hearings on the NSA program.
And it continued to be discombobulous.
Well, I continue to tell you people, do not panic and do not fret when you get the notion from the news media, from these Democrats, that they're riding the crest of a wave of a tsunami to launch them back to power.
They're as disorganized and they're wandering aimlessly out there, not only in vain search of an agenda, but in vain search of a thought.
They're simply delusional and incoherent.
Lawrence, Wisconsin, yesterday, Vice President Cheney.
The junior senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold.
Believes the terrorist surveillance program is grounds for censuring the president.
The president clearly has the authority to direct the National Security Agency to collect the communications of our enemies in wartime.
The American Spectator today, reporting on this, quotes an unnamed staffer to a far-left senator.
And this staffer sounds exactly like something you would read on one of these wacko blogs.
We got to continue to do this.
We've got to take the fight to Bush.
Whether we win or lose?
We've got to take the fight to Bush.
What do you win or lose?
They still think that they have to show their base that they can be mean, that they can be tough.
I've always said they have no idea how they sound or how they look, and this is just further evidence.
We have to go quick timeout.
Our first profit center break is upon us, backed with more in jiffy.
Cookie just sent me a soundbite she thinks that I will find amusing.
I mean, yes, it's amusing, but it perplexes me more than anything else.
What I have here is a little soundbite from this morning's edition of The View, that old girl chat show on ABC.
You got Joy Behar on there.
You got Meredith Vieira on there.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck, supposed to be the one conservative on that show.
And who else is on the, what's her name?
Star Jones.
And they're discussing Pat Roberts.
Pat Robertson said yesterday on his 700 club that Islam is not a religion of peace, that radical Muslims are satanic.
He said that the outpouring of rage elicited by cartoons just shows the kind of people we're dealing with.
These people are crazed fanatics.
And I want to say it now.
I believe it's motivated by demonic power.
It's satanic, and it's time we recognize what we're dealing with.
He also said the goal of Islam, whether you like it or not, is world domination.
In a statement later released, Clarify Things said he was referring specifically to terrorists who want to bomb innocents as being motivated by Satan.
So the girls at the View decided to tackle this.
And now see, it's Elizabeth Hasselbeck says, I think sometimes the media, and rightly so, but we do tend to focus on the people who are saying things that are outlandish, you know, instead of people who maybe are Rush Limbaugh, people like that get your attention on the left and the right and all over the place.
Religious not.
And that's the way, that's America, that's television.
This is particularly dangerous.
I think that's because this is what incites terrorism, essentially.
These are the kind of comments that divide this world.
They're already so divided.
Glittering jewels of colossal ignorance who think they're the smartest people in the room.
The fact of the matter is that the extreme fanatical statements made by people on the left don't get any attention, as we have chronicled over and over and over again.
Louis Farrakhan is far more off the wall and out of the realm of sanity than Pat Roberts could ever hope to be.
But he's always ignored.
Left-wing extremist fanatic statements are heralded.
We were told we need to take time to analyze the rage and understand.
And then Meredith Vieira was the last voice you heard saying that Pat Robertson statements are the things that cause terrorism.
Just idiotic.
And of course, Meredith Vieira, she's a former Infobabe at CBS, and she is rumored to be in negotiation with NBC to take over for Katie Couric if Katie goes over to anchor the CBS Evening News.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Journalist.
Yes, she's a journalist.
She's a journalist.
She also, she hosts the syndicated version of what's that game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
She hosts the syndicated version of that.
It was Joy Behar who said Rush Limbaugh, the first thing.
Joy's had it in for me ever since we worked at WABC in New York, way, way back, long time ago.
But I do get lumped in with these extremists by these men.
Well, that's not even perplexing.
But here are these people that actually think they know what they're talking about.
It's patently obvious that they don't.
Chris in White Plains, New York.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Rush, you're a great American.
Yes, thanks so much.
I was going to ask, as you always say, too, the liberals never do anything without a plan.
And whenever they leak something or come out with some major thing, it's before an election or before some grand event.
Upcoming this weekend is the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq after Resolution 1140 to get Saddam out.
Would that have anything to do with Feingold's grandstanding right now?
I don't think so.
I think it's all about presidential politics.
There's nothing more complicated than that.
Feingold is at the top of the heap of the chosen ones amongst the people of Kooksville.
And I mean that they're Kooks, the left-wing fringe, the people that have become the moveon.orgs, the blogs, and all that.
They love Feingold.
And I'll tell you, they love what he did yesterday.
They don't care that he bombed out.
They don't care that he fled the floor and refused to debate it.
They don't care that they think they come up for a debate.
They just think it's great that they got somebody willing to take on Bush instead of lay down.
And they just think it's absolutely fair that somebody's got the guts to say it like it is.
They accomplished nothing.
These people have gotten themselves into circumstances where emotional satisfaction has become a substitute for actual victory.
That is going to stand us in amazingly good stead.
They don't need to win anything in order to feel good.
They're so mad, they just need somebody to stoke it.
And yes, it is a profundity, Mr. Snerdley.
And I'm full of those.
That might qualify a new series of undeniable truths of life.
Emotional satisfaction has become a substitute for victory for these people.
And it's actually going to help us.
Jerry in Stockton, California, you're next.
It's great to have you with us.
Good morning, Rush.
Hi.
Do you have any comment about the supposed Al-Qaeda number two in Lodi, California?
I just saw that.
I just happened to see that Al-Zawahiri was a Lodi, California resident prior to 9-11.
It doesn't matter as long as he didn't try to buy a port and run a port.
It doesn't really affect me.
It doesn't faze me much.
It's a bit spooky, Rush.
Live about seven miles from Lodi, and at first we kind of all thought, oh, this can't be for real when the two gentlemen up there, the Hyatts, came to the service.
But now, number two, Al-Qaeda, looks like California might be leading the way.
Well, look, I understand it's unsettling, but these people all had to come here to experience the best life has to offer before they just try to destroy it.
Their theory was they're coming here to learn what makes the great Satan tick and to study us to find out our weaknesses and so forth.
But I don't think this is unusual.
From what we've been told, there are a lot of sleeper cell types that already reside in this country and they just waiting for activation at the right time.
You should also know that law enforcement is saying the story is false.
So it's not confirmed that Eamon Al-Zawahiri was an actual citizen of Lodi, California.
If it turns out to be true and you live in Lodi, the humiliation will be too great.
You'll have to leave.
Maybe.
If it turns out to be true, I can tell you this.
I'm not taking another call from Lodi.
Because you never know who it would be.
That's true.
I've only banned calls from one American city ever on this program.
That was back in 1988 or early 89.
That was from Reno.
The calls were just stupid.
It didn't matter.
Every caller we got from Reno was a mental midget.
And I was in the business of building the program, and I couldn't stand for that to happen.
So we banned calls from Reno, and they had to pass tests.
And Reno Station almost canceled us because of this.
But we had to establish a test where callers from Reno had to prove they were qualified to appear on the show.
That's the only time we've ever done it.
But if it ever is confirmed that Zawahiri did live there, then Lodi is banned for a while until they can straighten the mess out out there.
So that would be what we would do, Jerry, in order to try to improve the situation.
I'm glad you called, but seven miles away, it's a safe distance.
And you go, what?
What?
Zawahiri?
No, but there have been a couple of other arrests of people supposedly to have ties to terrorism in Lodi.
There are pockets of the country where these people do immigrate.
That's why there's some people that give this credence, even though law enforcement is denying it.
We'll just have to wait and see.
But he's not there now, which is the bottom of the fact.
He was there before 9-11.
Frankly, what am I missing if I say, I don't, big deal?
Really?
What am I missing?
I'm thinking, am I supposed to act outraged about this?
Oh, Zawahiri was here in Lodi before 9-11?
Who allowed that?
What good is that going to do?
What matters is where Zawahiri is now.
What matters even more is where we can hopefully soon send him.
We have it if you can handle it.
You've got to have courage to face the truth on this program or you will go nuts.
And we will delight in sending you there.
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This is from LifesightNews.com.
Potential immigrants to the Netherlands.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's where the Dutch live.
They have fjords there, have dikes.
And they have guys that stand there with their fingers in the dikes to prevent floods.
Potential immigrants to the Netherlands will be faced with a film showing two men kissing in a park and a woman in a topless swimsuit after Wednesday of this week.
The DVD is part of a new entrance test.
It is designed to determine if applicants are open to the socially liberal views of the country.
Their reaction to the footage will be recorded and used as part of the evaluation process to whether or not they are qualified to immigrate to the Netherlands.
Only applicants from predominantly Muslim countries such as the Middle East and Asia will have to view the film.
People seeking entrance from other European Union countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, will be exempt.
Islamic groups within Holland have condemned the test, calling it a ploy to restrict Islamic immigration in a country with one of the highest Muslim populations in the EU.
Abdu Menebi said, really is a provocation.
It's aimed at limit immigration.
It has nothing to do with the rights of homosexuals.
Even Dutch people don't want to see that.
Menebi is the Moroccan-born director of MSEMO, an organization that helps immigrants to settle.
Holland's crackdown on immigration under Immigration Minister Rita Verdunk has recently already resulted in compulsory integration classes, higher age limits for marriage for people from out of the country, and the loss of residency permits if immigrants commit petty crime.
These measures were taken in part, undertaken in part, due to the outrage over the 2004 murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, who was brutally murdered after making an anti-Islamic film.
So, Muslim immigrants have to watch two guys kissing and a topless woman and a DVD, and their reactions will be measured.
Their fitness to live in the Netherlands will thus be measured.
What do you think of this, folks?
I mean, I hear this, and we got immigration roiling the people in this country.
I mean, it really is, and the elites don't seem to understand just how big an issue it is.
But, you know, this is what the Dutch are trying to do is preserve their culture.
You may think it's odd and perverted, and so forth.
It is what it is.
And they're just trying to preserve it, and they're not trying to, they don't want to have a whole bunch of people move in.
They're going to try to destroy it, harm people who behave in ways they don't like it when it's not even their own country.
I'm sure some of you probably think that the program has merits.
Forget the details, but that the program has merits.
A couple little soundbites here just to illustrate something that we brought up yesterday.
There was this news story, the survey of the Committee on Excellence in Journalism or whatever it is, went out there and they found out that there just aren't enough reporters anymore.
There's all these stories out there, but they're hardly ever covered.
The same stories seem to be just repeated over and over and over again, which is true.
That's what the drive-by media does.
They simply pound something into the dirt, don't let go of it.
And of course, if it fits their action line, they pound it even more.
We have an example of this.
Unfortunately, our example, again, comes from CNN and my good buddy Wolf Blitzer.
So I just want to mention this is not to target Wolf Blitzer.
I'm not picking on Wolf.
It's just the best example from yesterday that I can cite to you.
What we have, the story yesterday was the president's new poll numbers.
Have you noticed, by the way, and I've had people emailing about this.
We had CBS in their bugged poll two or three weeks ago show the president 34%.
Then some other outfit came out with a poll that showed the president 39%, and yet they said in his lowest performance numbers ever, the president today had a personal approval, presidential approval number of 39%.
Everybody's, wait a minute, last week he said it was 34.
Okay, now you've got this CNN USA Today Gallup poll, and their poll says that the president is the lowest he's ever been rated, 36%.
Now, this is in their own polls.
They don't specify that.
But yet when that CBS poll came out, they all reported it.
They couldn't wait to report it.
It was one of these stories that just got pounded and pounded and pounded.
And as each company or network came out with its own poll that showed a different number, they automatically forgot the 34% CBS number and focused only on their own poll showing the president has never been lower when everybody knew that you had just reported he was low.
And this is why there's just confusion.
You're not trustworthy.
You're not believable.
On one day you're reporting 34% is the lowest ever because it's from CBS.
And then after that, polls come out with a higher approval number.
You still call those the lowest ever.
And everybody knows you're ignoring the last poll of 34%.
So it makes people wonder, well, what can we trust anything these people say?
How can we trust anything these people say?
Well, here is Wolf, and this is CNN.
And there's a whole team of people that put these news shows together.
As I've told you, it's packaged, just like any product on a shelf.
And there are people that package it, there are people that market it, there are people that produce it, and there are people that sell it.
And the anchors are the salesmen.
But they're not often always the producers and the marketers and the writers and so forth.
There's a whole crew of people doing this.
And that's how you get the whole culture that exists in the drive-by media.
So this is an example here.
Not one thing you're going to hear in this montage is repeated.
Everything was said as standalone in this montage.
They reported the new USA Today CNN Gallup poll as breaking news for three hours.
Breaking news.
What have I always told you that they run these polls for in the first place?
They are to generate headlines.
They are to make news.
They are not to reflect public opinion.
This is simply a way to make news.
It's lazy journalism.
It's become a staple.
So here you have in the 4 o'clock hour, in the 5 o'clock hour, and in the 7 o'clock hour, Bush's approval ratings at an all-time low.
This to illustrate how they just keep pounding one story over and over and over again rather than focus on the wide variety of news that no doubt is happening out there.
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
You're getting the first look right now at our brand new poll.
The president's job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.
This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN USA Today, Gallup.
The president's poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now, rock bottom as far as the CNN USA Today Gallup.
The president's a rock problem and his new low point in the polls.
His approval and policies now are at new lows.
The president's job approval number in this new CNN USA Today Gallup poll, rock bottom, the lowest it's ever been.
It's 5 p.m. here in Washington where President Bush takes a beating in our latest poll.
His approval rating at a low at our latest CNN USA Today Gallup just out in the past hour shows the president at an all-time low.
His job approval rating at a new low.
That's rock bottom as far as our poll is concerned.
It's 7 p.m. here in Washington.
The war in Iraq comes home to roost for President Bush.
Our latest poll numbers showing his approval rating at a new low.
Also, President Bush hits a new low in the polls.
Now back to our lead story.
President Bush's approval rating now at an all-time low.
As we noted, a new CNN USA Today Gallup poll shows his job approval rating at a new low.
President Bush's approval rating at a new low, 36%.
None of that was repeated.
We didn't repeat any of those things.
And there was more.
We just left it out because of time constraints.
That was a minute, 25 seconds as it was.
But you heard their lead story was a poll.
And it was the lead story for three hours.
Now, they didn't stop, though.
Today, they brought in their political scientist and poll analyst, the estimable Bill Schneider.
And they had to bring Schneider in because they found something disturbing in this poll.
And that is that almost 60% of the American people are saying pretty good things about the economy.
And they found that disturbing.
So Bill Schneider was brought in to put this disturbing news into perspective.
A lot of economists are saying things are pretty good around the country.
And Americans seem to reflect that.
And they're optimistic also.
About 60% say they expect things to be better next year, even than they are now.
That's a good number.
Normally, you know, the old cliché from 1992, it's the economy's stupid.
Well, the economy is doing well.
But there's another rule in politics that goes like this.
If the economy is bad, the economy is the issue.
If the economy is good, something else is the issue.
And that seems to be the rule right now.
The economy is pretty good, but people are upset over a lot of other things, most of all Iraq.
There's another rule in politics, or is there another rule in media these days?
Another rule in media these days.
When the economy is going good, you ignore it.
In all of 2005, all the stories about new job creation, 2 million new jobs, 151 stories in all media over the course of a full year on how well the economy was doing.
They're not even reporting it.
No, no, no, because they got to go out and find something to nail Bush with.
So this new rule in politics, but I'll tell you, when the economy was great during Clinton, they harped on it.
They focused on it.
They heralded it.
They trumpeted it.
They celebrated it.
There wasn't any desire to go out and find something wrong.
So it's not a new rule in politics.
It's a rule in media.
Correction time here, folks.
I erred when I said that the Netherlands has fjords.
Netherlands doesn't have fjords.
That's Norway that has the fjords.
I expect that this will become a news story, much as my misidentification of the race of Sherrod Brown or Sherrod Brown, whatever his name is, was a national news story for a week.
So I fully expect tonight and tomorrow, Limbaugh Airs on Locala Fjords to be a little blurb headline.
I also got an email here from a subscriber at rushlimbaugh.com.
The first words out of your mouth today were about the UAE not leaving Florida.
Then you laugh.
Don't you realize some terrorists can enter the U.S. more easily through a port managed by the UAE?
I was a 10-year listener, but no more, you dumbass.
Who is this?
Eugene Genzardi.
Eugene, let me explain to you the reason for my laughter.
We just had a three-week hysteria fit, a three-week tsunami of uninformed hysteria demanding that this company not be allowed to conclude its purchase to manage these terminals at six or nine U.S. ports.
And we hung tough and we got a vote in Congress and we kicked them out of the country and we said we don't want you here.
You're Arabs, but it's not because you're Arabs, but it is because you're Arabs.
We don't want you here.
Lo and behold, Eugene, how long do you think the same company's own the port in Miami and nobody said diddly squat?
Nobody cared.
We haven't had a terrorist attack in Miami.
We have one come through the port.
They used American Airlines and United Airlines and they used American flight schools.
They didn't use the ports.
My point, Eugene, is that they had a port all along and nobody knew it and nobody cared.
Now that they have now, oh, we may leave this new deal, but we're not leaving Miami.
And where's the outcry today?
Where are these people?
We can't allow them.
Where are they today?
Demanding, oh, yes, you are going to sell those ports.
You're going to sell at Port Miami.
We didn't even know you were there.
It's another thing, Bush.
When did this happen?
Bush allowed this to happen before we even knew about it.
We're going to kick you out of Miami.
Where is all that talk today?
Where is it?
How could they end up owning a deal in Miami anyway?
Nobody caring about it or knowing about it.
I don't know how long they've owned it.
If they owned it pre-9-11, why, folks?
Why, there's a whole new perspective on this.
But all I'm saying is, where is the outcry?
And it's only because of the UAE and DP World that we even know this, because they said, we are not selling our interests in Miami.
So I just want to see where this goes, Eugene.
I don't see the same hysteria.
I don't see the same paranoia.
I don't see the same.
And I'll tell you why, Eugene, is because that three-week embarrassing bit of hysteria had nothing to do with anything but politics.
It was nothing but politics, pure and simple.
And it was guided by opportunism and cowardice, pure and simple.
It was not governed by a reasoned analysis and examination of what the deal was.
And even the 45-day waiting period could not even be allowed to take place because the selfish little sycophants running around Washington had to make this as much about them as quickly as they could.
And then lo and behold, less than a week after that deal's killed, we find out that the same company has been operating terminals at the Port of Miami.
I'm sorry.
It was hilarious to me, and it still is.
I have more questions about the port deal in Miami.
We have a new port deals, folks, a new port snort port deal story.
It is apparent to me that President Bush did not even know that the DP World was operating a port in Miami.
Because if he had known it, why did he come out and say so?
Hey, they've owned a port in Miami for who knows how long.
We've been perfectly safe.
Obviously, Bush didn't know.
Now, we were told that they were only going to run a few terminals in the port deal that got snookered.
Now we learn they actually already run a few more terminals.
Are there any other DP World operated terminals out there in this country that we don't know about?
I was curious how little the administration knows about.
Or another way of looking at it is how much do they know?
We learned about the Port of Miami ownership of DP World from emails leaked to the media.
You know, you have to wonder about this.
And further, by the way, I should be specific.
The port terminal operations owned by DP World in Miami are actually owned by a DP World subsidiary.
That means a dummy corporation, perhaps, somebody operating under another name.
How many of the terminals in this country are already owned by DP World, just operating under other names as subsidiaries?
No, they're already here is right, HR.
They're already here.
They've snookered us.
We thought we kicked them out and kept them out.
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