Posted by
Will Malven on Monday, March 10, 2008 10:55:33 AM
Well, it would appear as though the Democrats, who were elected largely on their agenda of "cleaning up" Washington and eliminating "the corruption" of the Bush administration and the Republican Party only care about corruption when it suits their political agenda.
Apparently it was okay with Nancy Pelosi, D-CA , Norm Dicks, D-WA, and Rahm Emanuel, D-IL, for Boeing to bribe the Air Force procurement official in their pursuit of the lucrative new tanker deal which has now been awarded to Northrop Grumman.
Leave it to Democrats to lead the way in displaying hypocrisy. Here's the AP story:
Angry Boeing Supporters Target McCain
Mar 8, 9:44 AM (ET)
By MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus.
There are other targets for their ire - the Air Force, the defense secretary and even the entire Bush administration.
But Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain, the Arizona senator and nominee in waiting, for scuttling an earlier deal that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.
"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.
Ethics? Ethics? We don' need no stinkin' ethics.
What was Democrat Congressional Campaign Chairman Rahm Emanuel's reaction?
"Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have. We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."
Rahm, you are a true blue Democrat.
Seems John McCain's crime is in questioning a clear case of criminal corruption.
More from the AP article:
"The deal was killed in 2004 after a former Boeing executive improperly recruited an Air Force official while she was still overseeing contracts involving prospective Boeing deals. The former Air Force official, Darleen Druyun, and a top Boeing executive both served time in prison, and the scandal led to the departure of Boeing's chief executive and several top Air Force officials."[Emphasis added.]
My word! We can't have a President who actually dared to intervene in a corrupt deal between a defense contractor and members of our military. Why this might lead to people questioning the $ millions in contracts that Diane Feinstein's husband got while she was on the Senate Defense Appropriations Committee.
Of course no article would be complete without a few words of wisdom from the Wicked Witch of the Left. Madame Speaker of the House, that paragon of virtue, had this to say:
"I mean, the thought was that it would be a domestic supplier for it. Senator McCain intervened, and now we have a situation where the contract may be - this work may be outsourced...Given the ramifications of this decision for the United States, the Air Force must explain to Congress how it meets the long-term needs of our military and the American people."
Excuse me Madame Speaker, as Senator McCain said, the purpose of defense contracts is not to provide employment to American citizens, it is to provide the equipment our military needs to fulfill their obligation to defend our nation.
Of course, what should you expect from people who believe that the primary purpose of government is to provide employment to those who are unemployed, even if the jobs it provides are less efficient, more costly, and counter-productive to the needs of the country.
With this hypocritical campaign against McCain, the Democrat Party is once more proving that what angered them about Haliburton and their "no-bid" contracts was not the possibility that America was being bilked out of $Billions, it was merely a convenient vehicle for their attempts to destroy the Bush Administration.
Besides, Northrup Grumman is an American Corporation. Yes some of the parts for the tanker will be manufactured in France, but it will be assembled in Alabama, so jobs will be created for American citizens...just not those citizens in the Democrat state of Washington.
Democrats don't care about the people, they only care about acquiring and holding onto power and anyone who doesn't see this is a gullible fool.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!