We'd Be In Deep Ship

You know something is up when a group of senators that includes both Frank Lautenberg and Tom Coburn are on the same page about a particular issue, and that is the case with this story.

Oh, but the Saudis are such nice guys, aren’t they? They're our buddies. Why, we can trust them to make sure container traffic from Dubai Port World doesn’t contain nuclear material or massive amounts of chemical toxins that can be unleashed as part of a terrorist plot, right?

Just keep something else in mind, if you would; as noted in this story about British national William Robb (have to scroll down a bit), we don’t have an extradition treaty with Dubai, so if these terrorist cowards ever attack us again and then go to that country for refuge, we can’t get them (not “officially” anyway).

I would also ask that you remember this (according to AFSCME, concerning Bush’s 2006 budget):

Homeland Security: The President does not spare the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from inflation-adjusted budget cuts. The overall DHS budget is increased only one percent. On the positive side, the President's budget improves spending to protect public and private infrastructure, such as transit, ports and chemical plants, by about $300 million. However, these improvements are made at the expense of cuts of about $500 million or 38 percent in first responder grants to state and local governments.

Feel better about our global economy now? Sure you do.

Update 2/17: georgia10 at The Daily Kos has more.

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