Help me...! I'm trapped in a room full of Salvador Dali paintings... [UPDATE]

i thought the ports deal had gotten about as bizarre as it could get... i should never allow myself to have thoughts like that cuz it's like daring lightning to strike or washing your car because it's a sunny day and hasn't rained in quite a while...

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

lessee if i've got this straight... bob dole, former u.s. senator, now working for a d.c. law firm that's representing a foreign firm which has strong ties to a foreign government whose royal family hosted osama bin laden in 1999 which prevented a u.s. strike to take him out, has been hired specifically to lobby for the foreign firm in order to protect that foreign firm's bid to operate 6 u.s. seaports where one of the persons he will be lobbying is his wife, elizabeth, a current u.s. senator...

[UPDATE]

Elizabeth Dole Should Recuse Herself from Port Deal Considerations

so says the north carolina democratic party...

goddam right...

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