Count another loss for the Bush clan today. After a few weeks of serious debate and a completely unprecedented GOP split from the White House, Dubai Ports World will sell its American operation to a US "entity". A 62-2 vote in the House Appropriations Committee no less. A leading congressional critic of the ports deal, Rep. Peter King, applauded the decision but said he and others would wait to see the details. "It would have to be an American company with no links to DP World, and that would be a tremendous victory and very gratifying," said the New York Republican, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. See folks, when you have Chuck Schumer on Savage and they're both agreeing, you know this is bad for our Mighty Leader. When Bill Frist says he'll overturn the president's veto, you know it's really bad. So, faced with this kind of a problem, how is the president going to make Scotty respond? "It does provide a way forward and resolve the matter so we can continue working on other important priorities," said White Housespokesman Scott McClellan. ...gotcha. I wrote a little while ago on why the UAE deal was important, and I think the end result drives an important message to the White House. The people are not going to accept our leaders sleeping at the wheel for any more issues. Finding out that a deal is going through without Congress being aware of it or even a review held is simply unacceptable. I can't help but wonder if Bush found out that the deal died on TV.