Surprise!

I'm going to take a brief break from beating up on Bush over the Katrina fiasco, and instead beat up on him over this deal with the ports.

In case you haven't heard, a company in the United Arab Emirates is set to take over control of six major U.S. ports. This is happening because the Arab company recently purchased the British outfit that had been running the ports.

Now if my credit card company wants to outsource its customer service department to India, that's one thing. But outsourcing the country's economic lifeblood? To a middle eastern company? Belonging to a nation that produced two of the 9/11 hijackers? Granted, we're not actually at war with the UAE, but this deal is still wrong.

Bush, however, is defending the sale. He has even threatened to veto any congressional attempt to block the transaction. So if Bush feels that strongly about it, then it must be a good deal, right?

Except that Bush didn't even freakin' know about it!!! That's right! Our President didn't even know we were about to turn those ports over to a potentially hostile power until Congress began asking questions about it!!

How the hell could Bush not have known? Isn't the National Security Agency supposed to be monitoring our overseas phone calls? How could they have missed this? I mean, it's not like the paperwork for the warrants got lost, right?

Gotta go. The FBI's at my door again.