This is incredibly significant. A top House Republican who has been a big Bush supporter is now going all out to kill the ports deal. Duncan Hunter is the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, that makes him one hell of a powerful man. And he's pissed, real pissed.
From AP:
One of the most prominent House Republicans on military issues said Thursday he would try to scuttle a Dubai-based company's effort to manage U.S. ports as lawmakers' complaints about the Bush administration's handling of the issue continued to spread.This is just wonderfully, deliciously, horrendously bad for Bush. We're finally seeing an outright mutiny by Republicans on the Hill. And realize that the mutiny is because the members are being blasted by the folks at home. In other words, the American people are finally speaking up because they're made as hell at the Bush administration, and senior Republican members of Congress are being forced to act.
"Dubai cannot be trusted," said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and normally one of the administration's most trusted allies. He called the United Arab Emirates "a bazaar for terrorist nations" and asserted that the United States should not permit DP World to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports.
"I intend to do everything I can to kill the deal," Hunter said.
This is amazing. We're finally seeing Bush's incompetence come to roost. Halle-fracking-lujah.
