Spectacle of Klutzes
Ivins, Molly
Spectacle of Klutzes Small Favors Molly Ivins I'm starting to worry about the basic mental competence of the Bush folks. Does anyone know why they were fixing to turn six major U.S. ports over to...
...In Texas, we tried it once with an Enron executive, and it didn't work worth a damn, besides which the guy accidentally shot a whooping crane...
...News & World Report, Dubai is described as a center for "smuggling, money laundering, and underground banking," which would seem like three things you wouldn't want your port company anywhere near...
...Besides, we're stuck with these people for another three years so there doesn't appear much point in getting rid of Bush...
...And it turns out David Sanborn, President Bush's nominee to head the U.S...
...The Republican fury over the Dubai port mess gives us one indication of what can be done, but I'm afraid the only answer is to elect decent candidates this November...
...I'm sure the UAE company is filled with lovely people, and it's good to know that Bush officials have done business with them before...
...The day after Bush made his pledge to cure the "addiction," his Energy Secretary Sam Bodman rushed to explain that cutting imports from the Mideast by 75 percent was "merely an example...
...Just because DP World is based in Dubai does not, naturally, make it suspect, but, uh, why are we turning our ports over to any country's royal family...
...The sheer silliness of the spectacle of these klutzes trying to run the country presumably does provide some comic relief, but it's hard to be amused by anything about Iraq...
...Maritime Administration, will, if confirmed, be coming to us straight from DP World, where he is head of its European and Latin American operations...
...It's just that in the December 5, 2005, issue of U.S...
...Nope...
...Treasury Secretary John Snow was formerly CEO at CSX rail, which sold its international port operations to Dubai Ports World after Snow left...
...Molly Ivins writes in this space every month...
...ports over to a company owned by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates...
...People like Lewis Lapham are coming reluctantly to the conclusion that impeachment is the only answer...
...It's sure more important than trying to pick a President for 2008...
...They lied, exaggerated, dissimulated with great skill...
...Seems to me it was easier when we thought the Bush bunch was wicked-such a diabolical performance to get us into a war that never should have been fought...
...Because Clinton's impeachment was such a farce, I have hesitated to suggest yet another waste of time, money, and passion...
...The country is now spending less on nonpolluting fuel programs than it was when Bush came into office...
...After Bush had declared himself desirous of ending our "addiction" to foreign oil, Karl Rove wheeled out "Energy Week...
...Actually, it doesn't always work out well when you take an executive from a big company and put him in charge of a part of government that has directly to do with that same company's business...
...In fact, they've already fallen off the wagon...
...For a second or two there, it seemed as though they might actually have a plan to do something about our little oil dependency...
...He also plans to open huge sections of the West and Alaska for drilling, along with some of our most beautiful coastlines...
...Not that I have anything against DP World, the third-largest port operator on the globe, and recent purchaser of England's P&O Steam Navigation Co...
...Don't even ask...
...Now they can't even go on a quail hunt without problems...
...Her latest book is "Who Let the Dogs In...
Vol. 70 • April 2006 • No. 4
