Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals

Reuters/Yahoo ^ | 9/10/05 | n/a

[digger48]

we could halt everything until we get a number of sealed bids for each project, study them for a while and then select the lowest bidder.

then have a judge throw out all the bids and award the project to a 'minority owned' company for twice the low bid.

[My2Cents]

Weeeellll; we could halt everything until we get a number of sealed bids for each project

That should take about six months.

[My2Cents]

What companies aren't friendly to Bush?

Precisely. The only one I can think of are Ben and Jerry's.

[DTogo]

Two words the Left/MSM never understand or apply, lest it interfere with their ideology/agenda:

Q&E - Qualifications & Experience

[frankjr]

Now it Bush's fault that Dims don't know how to run a company...or hold a job.

[beyond the sea]

TIme to hide the Hurricane Machine. Better put in in the same storage shed as Osama.

Karl Rove should have never taken those Advanced Weather Modification courses!

;-)

[beyond the sea]

Air(head) America

[Arizona Carolyn]

Given there is only two companies who can do what Halliburton does and the other is FRENCH of course we would want to give the contracts to the French as payback for sending a few cots in this disaster... >/sarcasm

[TheOracleAtLilac]

O.K, dip wad reporter, which is it ?

and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root

lobbyist for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root

Got all the facts ?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Sounds like the French are celebrating their perception that the President is on the ropes.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

oops !

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Name other conpanies big enough to do this.

[Arrowhead1952]

Did the media think that contracts would go to Kerry supporters?

Not many sKerry supporters are capable of this type of "WORK". All they can do, is huff and puff on the movie sets.

[billnaz]

A story from Roto-Reuters might be accurate, and it might be "fake but accurate."

[Mike Darancette]

Without Haliburton and Bechtel who is left to do the work?

Jesee Jackson Beer Distributorships.

[hermgem]

Lets call in French ELF, this way they can help with their mighty oil pumps and stay outside of those media horror stories of local profiteers.
These stories go on and on, they all ask for qualified bids, some locations are within terrorist's reach, others like Louisiana are not yet survey able to even come close to a cost estimate.
But guess what, these very same media hounds would be quick to blame delays of rebuilding on Bush.

[Lion Den Dan]

This whining POS needs to get a reality check. Go find the number of companies equipped and competent to do this kind of work. You come up with the same half dozen names cause that is all there is. Kind of like putting out oil well fires; there are but a couple companies that do that job.

[p23185]

maybe all hurricane reconstruction efforts should only be awarded to small disadvanted minority businesses based exclusively in NO or La - how fast would that go??? What utter nonsense -some more wisdom from a "journalist" that knows nothing about the real world or the laws and regulations. Typical of what we have been reading all week about why the Military wasn't brought in immediately.

[geopyg]

---"KBR A company that is controlled by demo rats from Texas."----

I imagine that Halliburton and most other large companys have various bigwig Democrats and Republicans on their Board of directors, etc.

[Crawdad]

In 1981 when I was in college, I remember some bad guys on "General Hospital" who had a weather machine. It snowed in Port Charles in August. Awesome. And hilarious.