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PORTGATE AND THE RUBBER-STAMPERS (Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Malkin Blog ^ | 2-23-2006 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 02/23/2006 3:37:41 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite

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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

LOL!!!!!!!!


41 posted on 02/23/2006 3:56:22 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (UAE-- Anti-Israel and funds CAIR, check my homepage for more info)
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To: COEXERJ145

Malkin suffers from the same thing that happens to so many talking heads when they move into the big time...she takes herself too seriously.


42 posted on 02/23/2006 3:57:59 PM PST by CWOJackson
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To: Stellar Dendrite

I like Michelle, she's cute and she's a logical, independent and informed thinker. This was a good post.


43 posted on 02/23/2006 3:58:11 PM PST by Wuli
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To: raybbr
Good for America
44 posted on 02/23/2006 3:58:41 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Quite true. But it isn't a "reward". To legally drive a car on the public roads, I have to have government approval, hence my driver's license. The little car with the bad picture in my wallet isn't a "reward".

Some of us reeeeealllly want to cut off our nose and both ears to spite our face.


45 posted on 02/23/2006 3:59:22 PM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Cannoneer No. 4

The tactic is called "trend journalism". To portray a movement of opinion in a way one wishes it to move.

One of the canards is the "union" card to inflame anti-union folk, and to deflect attention from all the REpub criticism. Not at your link "Sister" makes a reference to union behind the push but that which she links to has no such statement.


46 posted on 02/23/2006 4:00:42 PM PST by Shermy
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

the CARLYLE gang.


47 posted on 02/23/2006 4:01:18 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Stellar Dendrite
Malkin's resorting to name-calling those who disagree with her on the port issue "rubber-stampers" (read: bushbots) is a sign she is not on secure footing. It's all about agreeing with Michelle.

Gotta give Rush his props for not caving in to the hysteria.

48 posted on 02/23/2006 4:01:26 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Wuli
...and she's a logical, independent and informed thinker.

Heck, pal, we don't want that. We just want lockstep with Bush.

49 posted on 02/23/2006 4:01:49 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Stellar Dendrite

I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that regardless of the issue that is being so passionately debated that WE HAVE RULES!!!!


50 posted on 02/23/2006 4:02:13 PM PST by neodad (The bombing begins in 5 minutes.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Who oiled the strings to begin this sale in the first place?

The British company. They wanted to sell some stuff. Happens all the time.

51 posted on 02/23/2006 4:02:28 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: Shermy
Mr. Schumer, the first to raise the alarm about the deal? He's collected $4,500 in campaign contributions from the trough of the Longshoremen.

Rep. Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who was one of the first big-name Republicans to break ranks with the administration over the deal? The Longshoremen's political committee donated $5,500 to the King campaign.

Senator Clinton's campaign took $4,500.

Senator Dodd, $2,500.

Congressman Fossella, $9,500.

Senator Boxer, $6,000.

Senator Lautenberg, $9,000.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York who is another outspoken critic of the Dubai deal, has accepted $22,500 from the Longshoremen since March of 2000.

Senator Menendez, a leader of the opposition to the Dubai deal, has taken in fully $39,500 in campaign contributions from the Longshoremen's political action committee.

52 posted on 02/23/2006 4:03:27 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4 (Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
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To: Wolfie

"Heck, pal, we don't want that. We just want lockstep with Bush."

You weren't around here during the Harriet Miers drama, were you?


53 posted on 02/23/2006 4:04:02 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Frank_Discussion
Some of us reeeeealllly want to cut off our nose and both ears to spite our face.

I just want to cut off easy access.

54 posted on 02/23/2006 4:05:18 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: Wuli

Sure was. And I was around during the sale of the ports to COSCO. Quite a different reaction when Clinton was in office.


55 posted on 02/23/2006 4:06:06 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Stellar Dendrite

i have reservations about this deal but my question is, arab vessels do not call @ israeli ports(nscsa & usac), israeli carrier zim does not call @ mideast ports, does anybody know how this will affect the operations if the deal goes through...


56 posted on 02/23/2006 4:06:30 PM PST by ronnied (we are the only animals that bare our teeth in greeting...)
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To: DJ MacWoW

You bet. We will certainly loose easy access to our Navy staging and logistics bases in the Middle East.

(That would be the nose, or at least one of the ears.)


57 posted on 02/23/2006 4:08:20 PM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
OH my gosh! A wordsmithed work of art. LOLOL!!!

But you didn't ping Laz!

58 posted on 02/23/2006 4:10:14 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: CWOJackson
I agree. Malkin thinks that since she got Harriet Miers scalp, she can dictate foreign policy, all from her little computer.

I'll be damned if I let the media stampede me on this issue, especially when I find out that the whole flapdoodle has been orchestrated by the longshoremen, and when Tommy Franks supports this as he has had dealings with UAE intelligence and values their support.

Michelle Malkin specializes in stirring up xenophobia. I don't care if she is insulted by it and thinks that is spin; it is the truth. If she isn't ranting about immigration she is criticizing the President because he isn't anti-Arab enough.

Pfui. I don't think she is that great a writer, either.

59 posted on 02/23/2006 4:11:38 PM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: Dane
I don't know why Gen. "Tonny" Franks would have any particular expertise in civilian port security.

Michelle may not either, but she does have plenty of common sense.
60 posted on 02/23/2006 4:12:49 PM PST by steve86 (@)
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