Well, he should know

DeLay says Bush making mistake on port sale

U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay said Wednesday that President Bush is making a big mistake backing a sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.

The former Republican majority leader said the administration's approval of the deal is "pretty outrageous." DeLay made the remarks during a campaign event with Houston real estate executives.

I dunno about this port thing; there's the xenophobia issue, the global-markets-uber-alles issue, the national security isse, and the administrative incompetence thing (even if it isn't a bad idea, they have handled it with supreme clumsiness). Dennis the Peasant has done some homework on the national security angle, and since he's a nice conservative boy, I'm inclined to agree with him that the security issue is a non-starter.

And really, the way this administration has been protecting us, we might be better off with someone else in charge of our ports.