The Bush administration continues to make fools of Congress, including Republican representative of New York, Peter King, who took the lead in opposing the Dubai port deal. As the NYT reports in Sunday's paper, King recently received notice that the Pentagon would no longer be able to provide his Congressional delegation air transport inside Iraq. "'It is very coincidental,' said Mr. King, who talked reluctantly when pressed about the canceled trip, which had first been unintentionally disclosed by another lawmaker. Mr. King said that he did not intend to make an issue out of it or allow it to affect his stance in the port dispute." The White House managed to scare Frist off his early opposition to the deal, and has brought him to heel.

Posted by Laura at March 4, 2006 07:03 PM