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"Harry Hope" |
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04 Mar 2006 10:36:15 PM |
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Republican congressman punished for opposing Bush's ports deal |
From The New York Times, 3/4/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04king.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
No Iraq Trip for Legislator Who Opposed Deal on Ports
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON --
Representative Peter T. King's prominent opposition to a proposal to
allow a Dubai company to take over some terminal operations at
American ports may have earned him some punishment from the Bush
administration:
He has been grounded.
Mr. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House
Homeland Security Committee, confirmed Friday that a few days after he
first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon
informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned
March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
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How to react to this bit of arrogant fascist nonsense? SEIG HEIL!!
Harry
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| User: "Tag Heuer" |
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| Title: Re: Republican congressman punished for opposing Bush's ports deal |
04 Mar 2006 10:42:41 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The New York Times, 3/4/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04king.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
No Iraq Trip for Legislator Who Opposed Deal on Ports
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON --
Representative Peter T. King's prominent opposition to a proposal to
allow a Dubai company to take over some terminal operations at
American ports may have earned him some punishment from the Bush
administration:
He has been grounded.
Mr. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House
Homeland Security Committee, confirmed Friday that a few days after he
first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon
informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned
March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
_____________________________________________________
How to react to this bit of arrogant fascist nonsense? SEIG HEIL!!
Harry
Republican legislators need to come out of their coma in order to smell
the coffee burning, for this is the initial and "last throes" of an
administration slowly beginning to comprehend "the writing on the
wall." The desperate hubris is far too telling, and we've always known
where the WMD was - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
http://tagheuerblog.blogspot.com/
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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| Title: Re: Republican congressman punished for opposing Bush's ports deal |
05 Mar 2006 01:12:10 AM |
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On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:36:15 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
From The New York Times, 3/4/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04king.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
No Iraq Trip for Legislator Who Opposed Deal on Ports
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON --
Representative Peter T. King's prominent opposition to a proposal to
allow a Dubai company to take over some terminal operations at
American ports may have earned him some punishment from the Bush
administration:
He has been grounded.
Mr. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House
Homeland Security Committee, confirmed Friday that a few days after he
first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon
informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned
March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
So is it your opinion that the Department of Defense is responsible
for Congressional junkets?
--
"The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing
their memory, or their backbone, but we're not going to sit by and
let them rewrite history." -- ***** Cheney 11/16/2005
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." -- John Updike
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
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| User: "Joe S." |
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| Title: Re: Republican congressman punished for opposing Bush's ports deal |
05 Mar 2006 05:01:26 AM |
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"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote in message
news:km3l02li18ltlm0ajeq72idnt6qbuc3hck@4ax.com...
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:36:15 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
From The New York Times, 3/4/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04king.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
No Iraq Trip for Legislator Who Opposed Deal on Ports
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON --
Representative Peter T. King's prominent opposition to a proposal to
allow a Dubai company to take over some terminal operations at
American ports may have earned him some punishment from the Bush
administration:
He has been grounded.
Mr. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House
Homeland Security Committee, confirmed Friday that a few days after he
first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon
informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned
March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
So is it your opinion that the Department of Defense is responsible
for Congressional junkets?
Congressional delegations typically travel on military aircraft. I spent 28
years on active duty, three of those serving in an attache office in the Far
East. I don't recall a CODEL that traveled any way but military aircraft.
--
"The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing
their memory, or their backbone, but we're not going to sit by and
let them rewrite history." -- ***** Cheney 11/16/2005
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." -- John Updike
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
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| User: "Tempest" |
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| Title: Re: Republican congressman punished for opposing Bush's ports deal |
05 Mar 2006 10:36:50 AM |
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Joe S. wrote:
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote in message
news:km3l02li18ltlm0ajeq72idnt6qbuc3hck@4ax.com...
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:36:15 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
From The New York Times, 3/4/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/politics/04king.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
No Iraq Trip for Legislator Who Opposed Deal on Ports
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON --
Representative Peter T. King's prominent opposition to a proposal to
allow a Dubai company to take over some terminal operations at
American ports may have earned him some punishment from the Bush
administration:
He has been grounded.
Mr. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House
Homeland Security Committee, confirmed Friday that a few days after he
first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon
informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned
March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle
East.
So is it your opinion that the Department of Defense is responsible
for Congressional junkets?
Congressional delegations typically travel on military aircraft. I spent 28
years on active duty, three of those serving in an attache office in the Far
East. I don't recall a CODEL that traveled any way but military aircraft.
Especially on overseas trips.
It's 100% military aircraft.
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony, 1896
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