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By: Adie

Adie — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:37:29 +0000

Christy. If you return.

Do you get any feeling for whether Reid & Pelosi would hang on to their present leadership positions in an Obama presidency?

The anger against them is painfully clear! But, then, I’m at the Lake, where people tend to be over-informed and -dedicated to achieving good governance.

Am I just too biased? *g*

By: sadlyyes

sadlyyes — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:25:56 +0000

White House Blocking Army’s Plan To Overhaul Contracting System
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In this May 22, file photo, Secretary of the Army Pete Geren, left, and President Bush listen to the National Anthem during the 82nd Airborne Division Review at Fort Bragg, N.C. According to a May 28 report to Congress Geren said a proposed service plan to add five active-duty generals to oversee purchasing and monitor defense contractor performance was submitted for approval in March to the Office of Management and Budget, President Bush’s administrative arm, and rejected. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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WASHINGTON — The Army’s march to overhaul its tarnished contracting system has been slowed by an unlikely foe: the White House.

The Office of Management and Budget, President Bush’s administrative arm, has shot down a service plan to add five active-duty generals who would oversee purchasing and monitor contractor performance.

The boost in brass was a key recommendation from a blue-ribbon panel that last fall criticized the Army for contracting failures that undermined the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan, wasted U.S. tax dollars, and sparked dozens of procurement fraud investigations.
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By: Prairie Sunshine

Prairie Sunshine — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:13:14 +0000

Likely, yes. But then we are at the mercy of the next president being the Deciderer of whether there should be investigations or simply to leave it up to the conscience of his predecessor, as Clinton did for GHWB.

And look how well that turned out.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:12:42 +0000

Here are a few examples as to why that ranking is crap:

Like pretty much everything else in the Beltway, National Journal is really a sort of Beltway consensus type publication in a lot of respects, but it has reporters who are left, right, and center doing various things — it’s hard to pigeonhole it as one thing or the other. But the candidate ranking system is really flawed, as you can see from the above, and the person who runs it is incredibly defensive about any criticism. HTH!

By: tw3k

tw3k — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:08:05 +0000

isn’t profiteering from war a war crime?
Section 2441. War crimes

If not in the US isn’t there an international standard against war profiteering?

By: BargainCountertenor

BargainCountertenor — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:05:27 +0000

Thanks, Christy.

But is NJ actually (fairly) nonpartisan?

By: cbl2

cbl2 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:04:00 +0000

hey !

are (((you))) still here ?

By: HelplessDancer

HelplessDancer — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:03:10 +0000

I have worked industrial maintenance for most of my adult life. The maitenance staff are alway the first line agaist Hazmat dangers. OSHA requirements are a joke. I can just imagine what it would be overseas with it’s lack of oversight.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:02:27 +0000

The National Journal issued a clarification on that “most liberal” analysis, and said Obama’s actually #16 or something. They screwed up their analysis on that and had to retract it.

I’ll see if I can dig up the link…

By: ScrewBush

ScrewBush — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:02:01 +0000

Yes I too would like to thank every Senator, blogger, and general good guy or gal who made this hearing and so many other hearings possible. Years from now when a generation watches these hearings, and discovers the crimes against the Constitution, the American people and even the murder of so many in foreign countries, we’ll be able to stand proudly and say, “We made them hold hearings.”

In a sense we’ve document our own powerlessness.