Facts be damned!

And so the ports deal is...done. There will be no showdown between the Executive and the Legislature over the wisdom of Dubai Ports World's management of terminals at 6 US ports. Es ist kaput!

DPW is turning over it's interest to an as-yet unnamed American "entity." In the process, the President saves face in that he musn't go toe-to-toe with Congress on the issue and Democrats lose any political benefit from having been on the "right side" of a national-security issue. The RCP Blog notes:

Will this be the end of it? I suspect so. Bush saves face and doesn't have to make good on a veto threat. A Republican-led Congrees[sic] looks good to its constituents (and feels good about itself) for flexing its muscle and derailing the deal. DPW loses, at least for the moment (The statement was notably vague, so we'll have to wait and see if a restructured deal, of which they may have some connection, emerges at some point after the election).

As with the Harriet Miers nomination, in a few weeks the DPW deal will probably be reduced to a footnote. The question is whether Bush's standing will rebound fully or whether the Dubai Rebellion will take a further chip out of the President's credibility with the Republican base that he won't ever be able to recover.

In other Corners of the web, we wonder about the options: Halliburton or Cosco?

Then there's the capitol sad-sacks who didn't get to finish on the right side of...anything (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin). It's a scandal!

**sigh**

Just another day in Washington...