From the Newsmax.com Wires

WASHINGTON - Democrats plan to push for more port security money while criticizing Republicans on the issue as the House debates a $91 billion measure for wars and hurricane recovery.

“If the Republicans are now deciding to get on board, then we welcome them, because for so long they have been on a sinking ship, basically saying that our ports are secure,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, lead Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee.

Republicans dismissed the criticism, arguing that they have increased port security money over the last few years beyond what the Bush administration has requested.

“What you saw was as much money as we could spend without just throwing money at the problem, hoping something good would happen,” said House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, suggesting that’s the Democrats’ approach.

In both the House and Senate, Democrats have long pushed for more money for ports only to have the Republican-controlled House reject their efforts, largely along party lines.

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Democrats are an interesting bunch. A party of no ideas or obstructionism at every turn, again the party manages to show the world why they haven’t been winning elections the past 12 years. In my opinion, the effort to boost money for more port security money is just a political ploy to throw more oxygen on a dying Dubai ports controversy.

The only Democrat I had even heard complaining about port security before the Dubai deal was none other than John Kerry, who has flip-flopped on every major defense issue not only during the 2004 election season, but right up to present day. That’s not saying much for the Democratic Party trying to be a party strong on defense.

I hear rhetoric everyday on television and the radio from Democrats complaining the Republican Congress has not put enough money toward this or that. However, you cannot just throw money at a problem and expect it to be corrected. We must look at the root cause of the problem or look at factors why the problem is occuring before we just throw money at it. It’s only common sense to look at problems in this way. I haven’t heard Democrats say anything to that affect; they only blame President Bush for not funding programs enough or not creating new ones.

I wonder why Democrats are even talking about raising funding for anything anyway. They want fund increases for all our country’s welfare programs, yet they continue to complain about the lack of balanced budgets and the rising deficit. Can Dems decide one way or the other? Yeah, didn’t think so.