I must admit, I CAN find the humor in that, but I prefer things like this:
Posted on 03/20/2006 1:08:44 PM PST by Awgie
"This reminds me of a Frosty Woolridge original. He wanders about firing off broadsides in the best loose cannon style so that merely parsing what he is saying/implying takes a long time."
You nailed it robo. Bucanero Bob is a major loose cannon! But he's also a great Friday morning golf partner.
...and, each word, individually, will withstand the test of the spell check.
Print out out, fold it into a paper airplane and throw it into the trash like the Dems do with military ballots.
"There is not a single "fact" presented in this screed that is sourced."
BINGO! You analyzed and imitated his style perfectly.
Hey Bob! The left wing and the democrats are primarily responsible for this situation starting with Roosevelt's New Deal where the 'central government' was assuming responsibilities that were formally handled on a local and state level, continuing thru Johnson's Great Society and into Carter's National Malaise.
Centralized government, Bob. Public schools, entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid (and universal health care if it gets rammed down our throats). All failures with enormous budgets. Thank the democrats for these wonderfully inefficient and expensive programs that the dems desperately need to hang onto in order to pacify and ensure their voter turnout.
So, Bob, when Big Government has a big job to do it looks towards Big Business to get the job done and that usually means Big Money. And yeah, somebody is gonna get rich. Somebody usually does.
But it's good to know that there are people like you, Bob that wouldn't have anything to do with that tainted money.........yeah, right.
One thing that you're overlooking Bob; plenty of small businesses will get sub-contracts from the big boys.
Regan. Don Regan? Your buddy needs some spelling lessons.
I must admit, I CAN find the humor in that, but I prefer things like this:
LOL!
You know what I like about the way you write? I could hear you saying it as I read it...and I have never even met you!
I used to get crap from an obsessive Bush hater through email a couple of times a week. My email program has a little button next to the sender's address that says "block sender". Haven't heard from him in months :D
Unless he's paying your green fees and the cart girl tab, he can't be a good enough golf partner to warrant listening to his garbage.
Ahh...the estimable Dr. Krauthammer! One of my favorites!
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Then, I heard him completely diss Nancy Pelosi on the Larry King Show (and all the other moonbats there):
FEINSTEIN: And, when Muqtada al-Sadr went to Basra and blamed the Americans for the bombing of the Golden Mosque that for me was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
HITCHENS: All moral sense has now been lost it seems to me by the fans of Moveon.org and by the people who come on your show and spout their speaker’s notes and it’s appalling to me that a Senator from the great state of California can come and say that her broad back was broken by the straw, I quote her, of Muqtada al-Sadr.
BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But in fact, investigators from the General Accounting Office (GAO) found Halliburton's no-bid contracts to be legal and probably justified by the Pentagon's wartime needs.
The head of the GAO told a House watchdog committee that it had looked into no-bid contracts in Iraq, including Halliburton's, and concluded that the Pentagon and other agencies "generally complied with applicable laws and regulations governing competition" when awarding them. Comptroller General David Walker faulted the Pentagon for some add-ons to those contracts, called "task orders," that he said were not properly justified in writing prior to the award. But he also said the agencies probably would have been able to formally justify the awards given urgent wartime needs (emphasis added):
Comptroller General David Walker: Importantly, given the war in Iraq, the urgent need for reconstruction efforts, and the latitude allowed by the competition law, these task orders reasonably could have been supported by justifications for other than full and open competition.Preceding Walker's testimony was a formal GAO report to Congress stating, among other things, that the Army Corps of Engineers "properly" awarded a sole-source contract for rebuilding Iraq's oilfields (emphasis added):
GAO Report: For example, the Army Corps of Engineers properly awarded a sole-source contract for rebuilding Iraq's oil infrastructure to the only contractor that was determined to be in a position to provide the services within the required time frame.That contract, of course, went to Halliburton's subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root. So much for critics alleging that the Bush administration showed favortism to Halliburton because Vice President Cheney was once its CEO.
As journalist Byron York has reported, it's not really true that the company got its work without competitive bidding. In the 1990s, the military looked for ways to get outside help handling the logistics associated with foreign interventions. It came up with the U.S. Army Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, or LOGCAP. The program is a multiyear contract for a corporation to be on call to provide whatever services might be needed quickly.
Halliburton won a competitive bidding process for LOGCAP in 2001. So it was natural to turn to it (actually, to its wholly owned subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root) for prewar planning about handling oil fires in Iraq. "To invite other contractors to compete to perform a highly classified requirement that Kellogg Brown & Root was already under a competitively awarded contract to perform would have been a wasteful duplication of effort," the Army Corps of Engineers commander has written.
Then, in February 2003, the Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton a temporary no-bid contract to implement its classified oil-fire plan. The thinking was it would be absurd to undertake the drawn-out contracting process on the verge of war. If the administration had done that and there had been catastrophic fires, it would now be considered evidence of insufficient postwar planning. And Halliburton was an obvious choice, since it put out 350 oil-well fires in Kuwait after the first Gulf War.
The Clinton administration made the same calculation in its own dealings with Halliburton. The company had won the LOGCAP in 1992, then lost it in 1997. The Clinton administration nonetheless awarded a no-bid contract to Halliburton to continue its work in the Balkans supporting the U.S. peacekeeping mission there because it made little sense to change midstream. According to Byron York, Al Gore's reinventing-government panel even singled out Halliburton for praise for its military logistics work.
So, did Clinton and Gore involve the United States in the Balkans to benefit Halliburton? That charge makes as much sense as the one that Democrats are hurling at Bush now. Would that they directed more of their outrage at the people in Iraq who want to sabotage the country's oil infrastructure, rather than at the U.S. corporation charged with helping repair it.
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