Posted on 03/08/2008 1:23:39 PM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
McCain is at heart an ideological boy scout who doesn’t want
corrupt elections, doesn’t want prisoners to be tortured the way he was tortured, and wants the poor old Mexicans to have a fair deal from the US that they cant get from their own government. I don’t agree with his views and his Naive
Rodney King(can’t we just get along) view of politics.
That being said, I don’t see him as a traitor to America, just as a man longing for an old style America that doesn’t exist any more! It might even be a just and good vision, but we can’t get there by using the solutions he advocates and by dealing with our nation’s enemies,foreign or domestic, in any way BUT a pugnacious fashion!
The truth is when people say they want govt spending cut, what they really mean is cut govt spending for thee but not for me.
It appears to me that the Pentagon went to great lengths to avoid improprieties in this process. The initial reports, showing that NG was rated better in 5 out of 6 categories, seems to show that NG gave the government a significantly better proposed design. Boeing may have a hard row to hoe if they try to protest the decision. In addition, if they protest and fail to get the award changed, the government has ways of making their life miserable in the future. The government folks have long memories...
Boeing's best approach to this may be to let sleeping dogs lie and to go after the B-52 replacement that is now being considered. They have plenty of experience building bombers.
This is it for me. McCain will not be getting my vote. There is no way. Let the Dems win. McCain is a damn Dem anyway.
I stayed away from this in my earlier post, but you are absolutely correct. Boeing had to pay out $615,000,000 in penalties for their part in the Darleen Druyun shenanigans. This stuff was almost certainly in the back of the minds of the Selection Board when they made the decision and might have been used as an informal decision criteria had the issue been closer. Like I said, the government has long memories.
Large procurements such as this one are based on the merits of each proposal. If Boeing was not selected it would be because the proposal evaluators found their competitor to be significantly better in terms of management, cost, and risk. Perhaps Boeing was depending upon being "saved" by political maneuvering, rather than by a superior proposal!
There’s no political loss from that commie, feminazi State. They were mostly Democrats to begin with.
The Boeing tanker includes parts manufactured in Japan, United Kingdom, Canada and Italy. The Northrop Grumman tanker includes parts built in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and France.
The NG bid will utilize 230 US companies in 49 states.
No sensitive military technology will be exported to Europe. For the KC-45A program, a commercial A330 jetliner will be assembled by American workers in EADS’s facility in Mobile. The aircraft will then undergo military conversion in an adjacent Northrop Grumman facility. All of the KC-45A’s critical military technology will be added by an American company, Northrop Grumman, in America.
Yes, if Hillary is elected, I will have to disable the audio on all the TV's and toss my radios just to survive.
Had Boeing been able to keep schedule with delivery of 767 tankers to Italy; first delivery was scheduled for November 2005 and is now slated for mid 2008, and Japan; first delivery was scheduled for December of 2006 and is now slated for first quarter 2008, then maybe the Pentagon wouldn't have looked elsewhere, Dicks.
I recall that when Boeing moved its HQ out of WA it was downplayed by the company saying it is no longer an American company because its parts are manufactured around the globe, close to its customers, and it wanted to move its HQ to a global trade center. Don't cry for Boeing.
Aren't the Democrats always complaining that Europeans hate us because of the Repubican administration? How the heck are we supposed to be liked if we refuse to do businss with them?
Evidence suggests to me that mankind is in short supply of even the most modest quantity of simple deductive reasoning, and I've managed to be cursed with just enough to see the obvious (ignorance actually can be bliss, I've decided.)
What is obvious is that just the threat of an economic blockade against the US would be sufficient to cut this nation's lifeline. And, if one wonders how much of this nation would respond, one has only to look at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
You seem to misunderstand how government works. When the other betrays the public interest for personal or political gain, it's corruption. When our guys do it, they're providing jobs and promoting national security.
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