The Dunce of Dubai
With the Dubai ports deal dead, Americans can only shake their heads and wonder: How stupid can one president be?
 

March 15 2006
Counterbias.com
STEVE HOROWITZ
 

Thank you, DP World, for backing out of the ports deal and exposing, once again -- this time for everyone to see, plainly and painfully -- what an ass sits in the Oval Office.

It almost defies comprehension: The House Appropriations Committee voted 62 to two against the deal, with the full House certain to go along. Polls show that about 70 percent of adult Americans opposed it. Yet Bush staunchly defended the deal, and promised to veto any bill from Congress that tried to quash it.

Why? He didn't even know about the deal until it hit the news. No one at the top levels of his administration was even involved in making the decision. Are the tender feelings of Dubai government officials more important than the majority of Congress -- both parties -- and roughly 154 million Americans?

Maybe. He has shown himself to be especially considerate of Arab oil tyrannies, as was his father.

But there's more going on here than the usual Bush family blowjobs of rich sheiks. No, this is just more proof that the stupider someone is, the less likely he is to offer compromise, to open his mind to other options, to admit a misjudgment, no matter how slight -- because, then, wouldn't people see how unqualified that someone is?

Well, George, the willingness to admit a mistake is the sign of a confident person, an intelligent person -- a big person. And you've once again humiliated yourself and our nation by demonstrating how small you are.

It's not like people haven't caught on. From USA Today:

"Bush's job-approval rating is 38%, 1 percentage point above the lowest rating of his presidency. His disapproval rating is 60%. The proportion who strongly approve of him has fallen to 20%, its lowest ever. The proportion who strongly disapprove has risen to 44%, the highest ever."

Bush is, in fact, upside down (more people disapprove than approve) in every single category of job performance, from Iraq to the health care to the environment to the so-called "war on terror." Every single category, including honesty and trustworthiness -- except one.

By a margin of 52 to 47 percent, people seem to think he's "a strong and decisive leader." Apparently because he makes rash decisions, and then defends them strongly when the facts come out.

Facts like the absence of Saddam's WMDs, for which we attacked a sovereign nation, killing tens of thousands of their people and ours. Facts like the illegality of his torture policies and domestic spying. Facts like his being amply warned of the damage Katrina would do.

But he's not really strong and decisive, is he. If he were, anyone involved in leaking the name of a covert CIA agent -- namely Karl Rove -- would be gone, as he promised. We would have captured Osama "dead or alive," as he promised. And Iraq's oil revenues would be paying for Iraq's reconstruction, instead of our tax dollars. As he so strongly and decisively promised.

Americans can no longer deny it (and for the most part, they don't) -- the man we (sort of) elected president is a moron. Someone who lies and belligerently defies the will of the vast majority of Congress and the people who (sort of) elected him, because he fears his incompetence will become too obvious.

Well, it's too late. It's as clear as Thursday's statement from DP World's top executive, who said his company would "transfer fully the U.S. operations of P and O Ports North America to a United States entity."

It's sad, really. And embarrassing to watch. I almost feel sorry for George Bush, this man I hate. And I definitely feel sorry for the country I love. Because it's being irreparably damaged by a smirking, jackass-stubborn simpleton.

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