Hoisted on the port deal

Bob McElvaine looks at the Bush administration's problems among restive Republicans over the Dubai port-security deal, which ironically could turn out to be not a serious security threat (though Bob makes it clear that right know it doesn't look good). Mr. Bush ... Brought to the Bar of Poetic Justice (Finally) by Robert S. McElvaine History News Network 03/06/06:

Still, it could be true that the dubious Dubai deal isn't a real security threat. If so, the irony is delicious. The administration found it much easier to sell its long train of abuses - a whole host of untruths - than to sell what just could be the truth. That should not be surprising. They have, after all, had little or no experience at trying to sell the truth.

Beyond the Bush-Cheney Administration's inexperience with marketing the truth, this deal simply won't pass the proverbial smell test.

... All the bad karma that the president and his advisors built up over years of misleading stories about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, mushroom clouds over American cities, and links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda is finally bringing its appropriate consequences.

An administration that has for so long lived by misinformation about terrorist threats may now be dying by misinformation about terrorist threats. ... Bush is being hoisted on his own petard—or his own past pretenses.

For Dems, it is good to see Bush hoist on his own petard over this. (Not that I've actually known what a "petard" is, but that's another story.) Well, for as long as it lasts, anyway.

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