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March 6, 2006
Fabulous Fumble of the Week - 3/6 - OIL
At first I thought that former President Clinton might win this week's award when I learned that he advised Dubai Ports World on navigating the various agencies to ensure they would indeed get the ports deal, however he was pushed out of the way by Our Illustrious Leader by the sheer numbers of fumbles. We first have the Dubai Ports deal, which is rather amazing. We have a President who is warning us about every 5 minutes that terrorists are coming to get us. He knows that we have serious problems with port security. He has not provided enough money to take care of this, which is no secret, even to him. Mid-level bureaucrats make this decision, unbeknownst to him,which he supports without even seriously reviewing it, and threatens to veto any attempt by Congress to block the decision. I don't necessarily disagree with this, but if the company takes over the ports and there is an attack the country is going to appear so dumb somebody will have to invent a whole new category of stupidness.
The second fumble was the aftermath of the release of OIL (Our Illustrious Leader) assuring Brownie and his minions that he was going to do whatever necessary to help New Orleans. Now granted, this actually happened at the end of August, but we did not learn about it until last week, so we are considering it a "last week fumble". Nothing like getting caught in some serious fibbing. "No one expected,.....blah, blah, blah"
And number three, OIL signing an nuclear agreement with India. Some may disagree, but remember that India has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Bush's technology transfer is considered illegal by many experts under the terms of the agreement. Here OIL has basically said F U to the Treaty. He sets a bad precedent by not complying when it suits his political purposes. How can he honestly condemn Iran for not abiding by nuclear agreements when he won't do it either? Maybe it is one of those cases of "do as I say, not as I do."
Congratulations to OIL for winning this week's award.
Posted by Chip Spear at March 6, 2006 11:54 PM