Sunday Roundup

Ports of Call-amity. Faced with a bipartisan firestorm over his dubious Dubai deal, President Bush stomped his feet, held his breath, and stuck out his veto (threatening to exercise the first of his presidency). You know somewhere Dick Cheney is popping open a beer and raising a toast to the waterfront emirs who've replaced him as the punhcline du jour. Check out the port takes of James Hoffa, Jim Zogby, Trey Ellis, David Sirota, Kristen Breitweiser, Sherrod Brown, Deanne Stillman, Raymond Learsy, Cenk Uygur, Mark Kleiman, Katrina vanden Heuval, Michelle Pilecki, Craig Crawford, and me. And don't miss Harry Shearer's multi-part blogging on the first post-Katrina Mardi Gras.