[JohnGalt]

See, EF, you can smoke these phonies out if you go after one of their own.

Ike (that would a Republican) first employed the phrase Military Industrial Complex, and if Mother Jones provides an on-line source to point out that Gaffney not only has his own agenda but when he was shilling for the Boeing Leasing deal, he 'forgot' to mention that he receives his paycheck in large part because of Boeing contributions.

I have little time for Norquist, even if I thank him for his work on eliminating the death tax and fighting against the Patriot Act, but believe he is just another insider not to be trusted with much of anything.

Gaffney cares more about securing government contracts for his benefactors than national security. He is a true phony, a minion of the War Bucks crowd.

[EverFree]

I'm tickled trollelot wrote such a long screed, so impressively chock full of important-sounding Statistics, only to discover too late that it didn't apply to you.

So, in the line of RATner the RANTer, Gaffney is the latest tool "outing" Norquist?

I'll run Gaffney as a keyword and educate myself, but please add Gaffney keywords to any good threads you know about. Thanks!

[Poohbah]

Speaking of the Boeing tanker deal--I am not happy. The only other option is Airbus--and Airbus is, IMNHO, an inferior product. But Boeing violated so many written and unwritted rules of conduct, and screwed things up so badly, that their proposed deal has to be killed.