PORT BROUHAHA INITIATED BY PRIVATE, PROTECTIONIST BUSINESS LOBBYIST HIRED BY PORTS WORLD COMPETITOR

VIA JIM ROSE:

Turns out the "political groundswell" of Democrats and some Republicans in Congress was not the result of national security, but in fact the almighty dollar. The Miami port operator Eller & Co. ... sent a team of lobbyist[s] to D.C. to turn the screws. The MSM got it wrong yet again.

UPI:

Eller's campaign included a lobbying blitz on Capitol Hill that has produced a groundswell of Democratic Party opposition to the deal. Eller "was really the canary in the mineshaft for many people on the Hill and in the media," said Israel Klein, a spokesman for Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

I expect the Dems to do the bidding of isolationist/protectionist lobbyists (working for unions or corporations that can't compete without government intervention), but NOT GOP members of the Congress or governors.

The shame is, that without the GOP demagogues pumping up this bogus flap (King and Pataki and Collins and Ehrlich), it wouldn't have EVER even become a brouhaha. SHAME ON THE GOP DEMAGOGUES WHO DID THE BIDDING OF THE DEMS - AND THEIR PROTECTIONIST-LOBBYIST BUDDIES!