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Gates book blasts ‘incompetent’ Congress; accuses Reid, others of seeking favors
FoxNews ^ | 1/14/2014 | FoxNews

Posted on 01/14/2014 11:41:52 AM PST by ThomasMore

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' scathing assessment of President Obama's handling of the Afghanistan war pales in comparison to what he thinks about Congress. In Gates' memoir, "Duty," which hit the bookstores on Tuesday, the former Pentagon boss puts his poison pen to the work of skewering what he calls an "incompetent" and "egotistical" institution.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006electionbias; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; gates; gatesbook; kickbacks; mostethicalever; payola; pelosicongress; reid; reidscandals
Gates takes it to the Congress.
1 posted on 01/14/2014 11:41:53 AM PST by ThomasMore
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To: ThomasMore

BTW, what’s up with Gates and the neck brace? Did he meet with some Chicago justice?


2 posted on 01/14/2014 11:47:59 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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I agree with him that Reid asking the Dept of Defense to fund Irritable Bowel Syndrome is outrageous.

But for all the funding questions, what does he expect Congress to do?

If he didn’t want to be bugged so much, then he needed to take a more proactive approach. He should have a staffer notifying congressmen about the status of funding of projects in their districts. And if they aren’t funded, then they should be explaining why.


3 posted on 01/14/2014 11:48:29 AM PST by DannyTN (A>)
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To: duckman

“Did he meet with some Chicago justice?”

I think that’s the joke going around town. But be careful.


4 posted on 01/14/2014 11:52:53 AM PST by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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He should have called Cheney for some diplomacy tips re dealing with Congress.


5 posted on 01/14/2014 11:54:40 AM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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"...accuses Reid, others of seeking favors"

Does he write about Queen Pelosi's private military aircraft?

6 posted on 01/14/2014 12:17:03 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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Blecch!

He promotes Hillary as a good executive.


7 posted on 01/14/2014 12:20:09 PM PST by stanne
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The entire government is incompetent, and corrupt, and Evil.

Including you, Mr. Gates.


8 posted on 01/14/2014 12:48:53 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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