Didn’t The Left Hate No Bid Contracts?
Nov 13, 2011 Political
When George Bush was president the left went nuts over no bid contracts to Halliburton despite the fact that Halliburton was the only company able to provide the services needed. The name Halliburton is used as a vulgarity by the left because former VP Dick Cheney was, at one time, employed by them. The left looked at the no bid contracts as a way for Cheney to enrich his life even though he did not profit from the contracts.
Bill Clinton awarded no bid contracts but the left ignored them (I think one was to, wait for it, Halliburton).
Barack Obama took office promising to end politics as usual and to be more transparent than anyone in history. He has been anything but transparent and has played politics as usual even before he actually took office. Solyndra was nothing more than a payout to supporters (much like the Stimulus) and it ended up costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
Now Obama has awarded a no bid contract to a company of a heavy Democrat supporter for a drug that we do not need and that cannot be tested. The drug is a pill to treat people exposed to Smallpox and who are too far into the disease to be treated by the conventional medicine which the US has stockpiled. In fact, we have enough to treat every person in the country and it costs about $3 a dose compared to $255 a dose for the new drug.
The process was changed and new people put in place so that the contract would be awarded. In other words, the Obama regime did everything possible in order to get the contract awarded.
The cost of the contract is $443 million. That is nearly a half a billion dollars that we do not have spent for a drug we do not need and done in a fashion that smacks of Chicago style politics.
November 2012 cannot come soon enough.
The next time liberals scream about Halliburton mention Siga Technologies. I doubt they will know what it means and if they do they will find some way to rationalize the contract.
Remember, Obama is their messiah and can do no wrong.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: chicago way, halliburton, lies, no-bid contract, Obama, siga
Won’t You Come Home Bill Daley
Jan 20, 2011 Political
William Daley of Chicago is now part of team Obama. He is part of the Daley crime political family and is supposedly going to bring some business sense to the regime. Daley was part of the fat cats from Wall Street and made a fortune there (no doubt helping the home syndicate along the way).
Daley is reportedly selling $8.3 MILLION worth of JP Morgan stock now that he is part of the regime. He had to sell the interests in order to avoid any conflicts of interest. As if his time on Wall Street will somehow not matter regardless of what stock he holds.
I have not heard the left discussing how this man bilked taxpayers through his Wall Street dealings. I have not heard how he got rich by screwing people over and how he was part of the problem that Obama said was close to seeing people with pitchforks. How is it that none of the chattering class has mentioned any of this or questioned how a guy got so rich selling stock from a company that had to be bailed out by the US taxpayer.
What? It does not matter…
Well how come it mattered when Dick Cheney moved from Halliburton and had to do something with his stock? Why is it that the left went bonkers over Cheney and can’t help but mentioning Halliburton and how Cheney and the company got rich off the taxpayer (even though this is not true)?
I guess it only matters when the accused is a Republican.
The big difference here is that Cheney signed his stock over to charity. He and his wife signed an irrevocable document that donated the stock to a charity to be named later (and in 2006 they gave over 75% of their income to charity). To help liberals I picked their favorite source for this (from among many out there).
Does anyone think that Daley will do this?
Ah yes, and it is the evil Republicans who are greedy and only think of themselves.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: dick cheney, halliburton, jp morgan, stock, william daley