Another Notch in Rush’s Belt (Chuck Schumer Hearts Halliburton!)
Now this is ridiculous.
Rush gets to say “See I told you so” so often he might as well patent the phrase.
Another thing he’s fond of saying is that jokes he tells about liberals end up becoming true surprisingly often. This is one of those, and incredibly, it took only about four hours to unfold.
From Rush’s program today, at about 1:40 Eastern Time on the port controversy (go to last paragraph at link; link will work until about 6PM on Tuesday, and then will go behind Rush’s subscription firewall):
Well, I have the compromise solution. Here you go, folks, for those of you out there that have problems with this. There’s only one entity that can bring peace to this whole deal. There is only one entity that we know could successfully run these operations, and that is Halliburton. Now, if somebody could persuade whoever it is that’s running Halliburton to intercede on behalf of America… (laughing) Ooh, would not that be great? Wouldn’t you love to see the steam? There would be calls, “This is a Rove trick. This is a Bush trick!” They knew that this would never go; they knew the American people would never stand for the UAE buying these ports. So Halliburton comes. “It was a trick all along! It was a trick all along, and now Halliburton’s going to get a steal of a deal,” blah, blah. I would love it. It’s one of those things that would make my week if Halliburton comes to the rescue.
I thought what he said was fall-over funny when he said it.
That shows what I know. Sometime during the 5PM ET hour on Fox News’s “Big Story,” John Gibson interviewed New York Senator Chuck Schumer (video HT Michelle Malkin):
Gibson: Suppose it is a Bechtel or Halliburton, that comes in and says ,”Well, we can operate that thing. Are you going to object —
Schumer: If they can do the best job and they get the contract on the merits, absolutely not.
Like Michelle says, “Chuck Schumer Hearts Halliburton.”
Those howls you’ll be hearing in the night will be lefty blogs and commenters wailing and gnashing their teeth over yet another “betrayal.”
Rush had a great show yesterday. Although he may be underestimating a few folks…
As soon as this news broke, my husband and I looked at one another and said “Harriet Meiers.” We don’t think that [Meiers/Alito] deal was orchestrated, but was a [rare] lesson from which the administration learned.
Ergo, I don’t think it’s much of a stretch that the folks in charge anticipated a bigger tantrum from the left if Halliburton had been awarded a bid to perform the port services.
Putting up the UAE company, knowing that the Dems are striving for a positive Homeland Security image, is brilliant to say the least because NO ONE is comfortable with this and we are already seeing a national bi-partisan debate…
Part of which is asking if any American companies exist that are both capable and able of performing these same services.
Comment by Tess — February 21, 2006 @ 8:04 am
#1, very good points. Now the left will be thinking that Rush was part of the evil Karl Rove orchestration.
Comment by TBlumer — February 21, 2006 @ 9:29 am
btw, if there aren’t any American companies who do this kind of work, let’s raise some capitol and go for it!
Comment by Tess — February 21, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
#3, Good idea, but I’d love to see Halliburton get the work, just to hear the groans and worse from the left.
Comment by TBlumer — February 21, 2006 @ 2:40 pm