In Booman’s post The Politics of Ports, there are not a few comments regarding the relative importance of this story, and others trying to figure out why BushCo has gone to the veto wall to protect the deal.
Right out front, Booman states “As much as this story bores me, it has become a major story.”
Yup.
But WHY?
Below, my own conclusions on that question.
Besides some impossibly Machiavellian legislative/executive conspiracy theory, the only thing that this threatened veto tells us is that for SOME reason, the port deal is very important to BushCo.
Since BushCo runs on profit, then it is more than likely a PROFIT motive of some kind.
A deal among the big players.
Oil rights, military access rights, influence in the highest places…something along those lines.
Or of course…the UAR people have something really big on them.
Blackmail.
9/11 info, bin Laden info, Saudi info, secret bank account info…something.
Any way you cut it, you see that it must be some sort of big tits for big tats.
Among the biggest of big rats.
The ONLY other possible motive…and given the history of the last 6 years of BushCo (let alone the policies of Reagan and other BushCo-operated entities and affiliates) it is not entirely inpossiible….is that the sole goal of this group is to bring the United States down.
As I have said before here…if it consistently acts like a treasonous duck, there is ample reason to seriously consider that it might very well be a treasonous duck.
For what purpose?
To impose a new, corporatist, super-national system upon the world.
You cannot wage war on a fascist regime that has no centralized location. (Hitler’s biggest mistake. Being there. Being ANYWHERE. Had he studied further with the devil, he would have learned that GREATEST of all tricks. Convincing people that you do not exist. I believe it is quite possible that we are dealing with people who indeed DID put in that extra study time with the Bad Doctor. I mean…if you are going to get all conspiracist, why not go whole hog? It certainly fits the facts. If you were casting a Hell, wouldn’t YOU want a Cheney and a Rove as leading players? Quackle quackle.)
For WHATEVER reasons, these people are risking political suicide within their own party. Now, grant them this. So far, they have not been politically inept.
So…either they:
1-KNOW that they will win the political battle.
2-Have indeed made a monumental political error.
Or
3-The stakes are so high that they have no choice in the matter and have to go all in.
Any possibility makes this a big, BIG story.
Go with it.
AG
P.S. Booman…so this story “bores” you?
And Cheney’s excellent shooting adventure story did not?
Time to look up the word “prioritize” in that ol’ left-wing dictionary in the sky, ‘bro…
