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Posted on 03/11/2006 4:08:48 PM PST by quidnunc
Ever since George W. Bush won the presidency by preventing Al Gore's hanging-chad attempt to steal it, liberal Democrats have become progressively infected with BDS — Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Here's how I think that the contagion of BDS is now infecting a number of conservative Republicans.
If you're a guy, perhaps you have endured this unpleasant and bewildering experience. You're in a relationship and you and the lady have had some disagreements but nothing major. From your perspective things are pretty ok. Then one day you and she disagree on some minor trivial issue — and suddenly, inexplicably, it escalates as she unloads on you.
It seems like the love of your life has had a personality transplant, you're facing a virago disgorging a torrent of anger, and all you can think is, "Where did this come from?"
If you're a guy, you're nodding your head in understanding. If you're a gal, you're muttering, "Men are so clueless. We give them all these hints for so long that things are bugging us, they never get the message, then when we finally can't take it any more and snap, they're mystified."
I think you get the analogy.
A relationship that suffers this trauma can survive only if both parties calm down afterwards, focus on their mutual interests and commitment, and work together to solve their grievances.
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But it's another thing entirely when Duncan Hunter (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, goes around the bend and offers a bill to make all foreign ownership or leasing of any cargo terminal in any US port illegal. Duncan, my buddy whom I've gone quail hunting with, how could he get so nuts?
There are some 3,200 terminals in US ports. 80% of them are foreign owned or leased. Unions and government regulations have made it impossible for US shipping companies to stay in business, making them bit players in the international shipping business. (See this story in the New York Times, US Companies Weighed Anchor on Ports Long Ago.)
Duncan's bill would cause astronomical damage to the US economy, but he doesn't care because he's on a BDS rant.
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Thank you for demonstrating the symptoms of BDS.
Congress responds to the 83%-17% poll where the public gives overwhelming thumbs down to the port deal. They are there to represent the people, this is our country and we get represented there by our Representatives. That is the American way, and you should be proud.
Applies to all industries, not just shipping.
You have to be a fool to operate any business with a domestic headquarters. If you want to do business in America today you had better be a lawyer, or run an operation staffed by untraceable illegals. Otherwise you locate overseas and import your product.
I am watching my second career evaporate daily as we loose nearly every bid to companies that use illegal labor; meanwhile everyone who gets a hangnail on the job hires a lawyer and sues the piss out of the owners.
I have always believed that people who don't recognize character, are lacking it themselves.
In reading some of the horrific attacks on the President from so-called conservatives on this board, the fair assumption is that they just can't grasp what it is to have the kind of consistent, Christ-centered character that our President exhibits every day.
PRAY for him! He is being attacked by the Enemy.
The Republicans in Congress should have LED with facts and reason. Instead they panicked and ran. Shameful behavior. Shameful.
And all based on a big lie of "the UAE is taking over 6 US ports".
Let me ask you a question, was the mantra of "the UAE is taking over 6 US ports" a lie or not to you.
If it isn't, I got boatloads of information to show you that your mantra was a lie.
The public also admitted they didn't have damn clue of any of the details, how our ports were run, and basically had no basis to formulate an opinion to begin with.
Why should anyone be proud a public that ADMITTED it was uninformed when polled, and gave an opinion anyway, was listened to? Why should anyone be proud legislators, who's job is partially to impart the FACTS to their constituents, were too gutless to do so? IF, THEN, the public knowledgeable on the deal STILL decides against? yeah, represent your constituency. But don't ask us to be proud they represented admitted ignorance. On their part and on our part of their constituents.
Great post and I fully agree.
Dang! I was just getting ready to blast that troll on post #11, but he's been banned already! LOL
bttt for those accurate remarks!
Trolls like that are easy to spot. No matter how long they've been around, they expose themselves as soon as they start posting the kinds of crap that fills DU, Libertypost and Clownposse.
btw.......interesting that the troll was saying the exact same thing as many of our 'conservative' freepers, eh?
I truly wonder why they aren't ashamed of the fact that they are in perfect alignment with the left on this one?
Didn't need to go further than this to know you don't have a clue
Might not be 100% word for word but close enough.
They may have different reasons for what they think, but they think in lockstep with the left..........especially about this President. And I find that rather frightening.
LOL! Me too, and then I decided to first read ALL of the comments!
That's true, but some fly just under the radar. Stir the pot, under the pretense they're the "real conservatives."
Exactly.
There are many posters here that sleep with the enemy
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