Dubai Ports World Hires Bob Dole To Lobby Controversial Deal

[VolcanoJen]

Breaking now on CNN... will update with link when it emerges.

Bob Dole... we should've seen that coming.

Isn't Libby Dole on the Senate Banking Committee? Conflict of interest, much?

[woodsprite]

1. Didn't someone say he could hardly stand up the other day

and looked in real bad shape? They're not hiring him, they're hiring Libby and using his name.

[VolcanoJen]

3. That's exactly correct.

When's Libby's seat up for reelection? No way it could be 2006...

[KoKo]

13. '08 sadly.. ...She's my Senator.

:puke:

[cal04]

2. interesting, her comments on the deal

Also Tuesday, Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., of Travelers Rest, put a statement on his House Web site pledging to support efforts to derail the deal. The Senate Banking Committee, whose members include Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., of Salisbury, will take a look at the deal at a March 2 meeting. Dole's office said Tuesday that she was "deeply concerned" about the Dubai deal.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/charlotte/news/13930092.htm?source=rss&channel=charlotte_news

[arikara]

22. Probably meant that she was "deeply concerned..."

that the deal wouldn't go through. They are all interconnected through their greed, their web of lies and their contempt for those who don't belong to their caste.

"...the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them."

[BR_Parkway]

4. How can a current Senator (not much I admit) husband be allowed to lobby

Congress?

[wordpix]

16. really sounds like conflict-of-interest to me

[BR_Parkway]

25. Yeah, but we'd need actual ethic investigators to say something about that

I guess

[420inTN]

39. So Bill Clinton shouldn't be able lobby Congress either? n/t

[BR_Parkway]

5. CNN: Bob Dole hired by Ports company to lobby Congress

just announced onscreen, will post more in a few.

[LiberalEsto]

6. First he shills for Viagra

Now he'll be lobbying to screw America.

It's sort of fitting.

[AlCzervik]

7. just saw that--no comment from either Dole yet.

[Roland99]

8. This stuff is getting REALLY WEIRD now.

[wordpix]

17. LOL, Bush Cabal getting whacked by own Repigs IS weird

[Plaid Adder]

32. Do You Suffer From Mercantile Dysfunction?

Quick, we need a bumpersticker ASAP. This is too good to pass up.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[tledford]

9. "Liddy" Dole is up for re-election in 2008...

... not sure why her nickname is "Liddy" instead of "Libby," but it is. (NC resident here.)

[KamaAina]

23. I hear she really, really hates being called "Libby"

someone ought to go up to her and sing that old jingle, "If it says Libby's, Libby's, Libby's on the label, label, label, you will like it, like it, like it on your table, table, table", just to watch her head :nuke:

[hopein08]

29. Then we should only call her "Libby"...besides...

when John Edwards was leaving the Senate, I read or saw him refer to her as Libby at least three times. So perhaps they didn't like each other at all or she doesn't mind it so much.

[Rose Siding]

36. Liddy also runs the RSCC. How will she explain this to the voters OR

the candidates?

Conflict of interest.

[stepnw1f]

10. How Is This Supposed to Help Bush?

These people are incredibly desperate.

[wordpix]

18. is this supposed to get him the senior plus vote?

[flordehinojos]

11. isn't he a decorated WWII veteran?Does he have a Purple Heart or somethin?

He ought to just stuff them where they best fit. SELLING AMERICA LIKE HE SELLS VIAGRA!

[no_hypocrisy]

12. NFS! How's the Senator from North Carolina going to vote?

[Patsy Stone]

14. Why? Was James Baker busy?

This seems like it's right up his alley considering how much the Carlyle Group stands to gain.

[UpInArms]

15. Oh Boy! Mr "Cigarettes are NOT Addictive" Dole with the limp-dick

steps to the plate :rofl:

These shills just don't know how to say no to a few more million bucks since they have already lost the souls.

http://reason.com/opeds/jsnr.shtml

When Bob Dole suggested that tobacco is not addictive for everyone, journalists and anti-smoking activists reacted as if he had declared the earth was flat. Yet while Dole spoke a bit loosely, the gist of his comments is so plainly true that it's hard to see what all the fuss was about. "To some people, smoking is addictive," he said during a visit to Kentucky on June 13. "To others, they can take it or leave it. Most people don't smoke at all." His take was similar in an interview with ABC's Peter Jennings that aired two weeks later: "My nonscientific view is that it's a habit. Some people who have tried it can quit easily. Others don't quit. So I guess it's addictive to some and not to others."

For observing that smoking is neither irresistible nor inescapable, Dole was pilloried as a tobacco-industry puppet. Never mind that what he said happens to be true, or that he also said cigarettes are harmful and people shouldn't smoke-- noting that he himself had a hard time quitting and that his brother, a heavysmoker, had died of emphysema. The crucial point was that the tobacco companies had given Dole and the Republican Party a lot of money, so he was clearly in league with the devil.

This fact-resistant, Manichean world view dominates media coverage of smoking, including allegedly neutral reporting. It was exhibited with especially comic frankness in "Never Say Die," the edition of Peter Jennings Reporting in which Dole offered his common-sensical ideas about tobacco addiction. The report was supposed to address the question, "How can the tobacco companies continue to not just survive, but prosper, when so many of their customers do not?" Implicit in the question is the sense that the tobacco companies shouldn't be surviving, let alone prospering. At the beginning of the show, Jennings explains why: Cigarettes are "the only product that you can buy virtually anywhere which, when used as directed, kills more than 400,000 Americans a year." At the end of the show, he observes that the death toll from smoking is equivalent to "three jumbo jets full of passengers" crashing "every single day . . . 365 days of the year."

...more...

Kinda sad, seeing as how Peter died from his smoking "habit". :smoke:

[rawstory]

19. link?

[VolcanoJen]

20. I've been searching, refreshing, updating for almost an hour

And still, nothing on the wires.

Seems like a CNN Exclusive, but they don't even have anything up on their homepage.

At the time of the report, they called it a "Developing Story."

I'm still searching... if anyone gets to a hard link before I do, please post...

[VolcanoJen]

21. Link... CNN's Andrea Koppel

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/22/wednesday/index.html

Dubai company hires Bob Dole to lobby for port deal

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Dubai-based company at the center of a controversy over the management of six U.S. seaports has hired former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to lobby on its behalf against bipartisan criticism of the deal, a Dole aide said Wednesday.

The 1996 Republican presidential candidate was "engaged" by Dubai Ports World shortly after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began expressing their strong opposition to the deal, said Mike Galloway, an aide to the retired senator.

He is considered a GOP elder statesman, and his wife, Elizabeth, now represents North Carolina in the Senate.

Dole is a special counsel in the Washington office of the law firm Alston & Bird. DP World hired the firm in 2005 to help shepherd its purchase of the British-based firm Peninsular and Oriental, which currently manages the U.S. ports, Galloway said. --From CNN Correspondent Andrea Koppel (Posted 2:43 p.m.)

[antonialee839]

24. If there's anything Bob knows about it's screwing.

[Yavin4]

26. Man, The Republicans Are Whores. Just Whores

Is money that important to them? Is there anything they won't do for money? Anything?


What about his wife in NC? Isn't she up for re-election?

[noonwitch]

27. Giving Dole something to do will give Norm MacDonald something to do

Maybe it will. I haven't seen Norm on anything in a long time. I liked the show where he was the social worker, even if the NASW has issues with it.

[fooj]

28. Bob Dole isn't an American patriot.

Too bad he sold his country out...kinda negates anything else, doesn't it?

Peace.

[Patsy Stone]

31. The Viagra has clearly rotted his brain

Hi, fooj! :hi:

[fooj]

35. Hiya Patsy!

:hi:

[AlGore-08.com]

30. When he says "You know it, I know it, and the American people know it!"

Congress will be won over!

:crazy:

[Roland99]

33. Does Daschle work at the same firm as Dole?

Heard something on NPR but I didn't catch the whole thing.

[Yavin4]

34. Yavin4 Doesn't Think That Bob Dole Should Be Doing This

That's right, Yavin4 disagrees with Bob Dole, and Yavin4 is using Bob Dole's method of referring to himself in the third person to make Yavin4's point.

[Mizmoon]

37. Ole "Erectile Dysfuntion" Dole, ey?

Thought he was dead.

[SoCalDem]

38. Bob Dole is a money-grubber too..No surprise there n/t

[Harper_is_Bush]

40. Bob Dole? I thought he was dead. n/t

[VolcanoJen]

41. Josh Marshall has some great info on UAE lobbying

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007729.php