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Yet more examples of heartbreaking work of staggering incompetence, we give you Bushed!
First up is more news on Efraim Diveroli, the 22 year old who was awarded a $300 million contract to supply arms for US and Afghan troops. Diveroli is under investigation for sending faulty, sub-standard and in some cases, obsolete equipment and it turns out he was awarded this contract on the basis of being a “Small, Disadvantaged Business.” Only problem is, his company was never certified as a SDB, pointing out how easy it is to work around a rather difficult designation to get within the Bush administration.
Next up is National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley’s repeated gaffes on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, confusing “Nepal” for “Tibet” in discussing the protests and controversy over whether George Bush should attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. It’s not exactly comforting that the person tasked with keeping the President advised of what’s happening in the world can’t keep his countries straight, but considering his role in “Treason-gate” it’s not comforting that he even has a job.
And finally, we have Alphonso Jackson, the disgraced and soon-to-be ex HUD Secretary. Being completely unaware and wrong (Jackson predicted an upturn in the housing market and pushed for legislation to encourage risky lending) is nothing new for a Bush administration, but you got to love the chutzpah of a man who calls helping Congress hopeless because there’s “534 massive egos up there” and yet spent $7 million on an auditorium and cafeteria at HUD headquarters, “emergency” bids for oil portraits of Jackson and four other HUD Secretaries, as well as his own taxpayer-funded personal chef.
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You have cronyism in every administration.
Bush has raised it to a level of business as usual.
It appears that if you bring “the cash” you got the job.
two words: grand corruption
Efraim Diveroli an eighteen year old kid with a faked ‘over 21 ID’ getting $300 million contracts to supply various militaries.
Nobody would accept a script with this outrageous fake fantasy of a story, only real life is this wacky and surreal.
A friend of mine is an auditor for the SBA: she investigates and decides whether a company is “small” or “minority/women owned” by Gov’t standards, or not. She tells me large corporations frequently set up shell “small” businesses, and object, even bring lawsuits when found “other than small”.
And even when a business is large white male owned, it may have a black woman as nominal “owner”. When she finds them “other than small, etc.” there is a terrific screetch set up, and her Politically Appointed Bosses over rule her.
This has been the case in both Clinton & Bush administrations, but MUCH more so in the Bush’s. Plus this Bush has reduced staff so much my friend is currently doing 3 different jobs, including secretarial.
The SBA is drowning . . .
would someone please what the definition of a crime
is under the bush administration.
if a bj is a crime in the clinton administration,
why are the hundreds of offenses committed by
bush and his administration not crimes?
Kathy @ 3:
classic tactics to subvert and hogtie an investigative org, work and stress out the staff so they can do nothing.
surviving the work day becomes top priority.
dadams @ 4:
When an organized crime family has all the cards and all the key jobs and ruthless enforcers, then nothing they do is a crime.
ferrofluid, you’ve sure got that right! They’d laugh you out of the publishing house or movie studio with a crazy story like that. Only in real life, only in bushs America.
Small clarification - getting a bj is not a crime. Lying about it under oath to Congress is a crime.
This, however, does not excuse or justify the far more serious offenses that have been committed by the Bush administration.
This is very sad. I don’t know about anyone else, but I believe that when Bush meets St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, that will be a long, long conversation that will last more than an eternity.
Because on earth, Bush and his cronies have escaped the claws of justice one too many times.
How many more morons are there in the Bush administration?
Is Congress going to have to investigate EVERYBODY??
Alphonso Jackson is well known here in New Orleans. Aside from being our president’s favorite house negro (google “bush bald” for a great picture of him rubbing Jackson’s head ‘for luck’) he’s the guy who took over public housing on behalf of HUD from the municipal HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans).
Post-Katrina, in a city with the worst housing crisis since the civil war, his agency is busily tearing down thousands of easily rehabbed, solidly constructed public housing units, in many cases with the (former) tenants belongings still inside (the units were sealed, and the tenants forbidden entry). A particularly egregious example of this stupidity is the Lafitte Houses, a complex of well-constructed (they are designed to resemble the upscale Pontalba apartments in Jackson Square, with balconies and ornate iron-work) low-rises, which just happen to be located close to the French Quarter. An Atlanta real estate consortium with close ties to Jackson is interested in the land, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
AgentX @ 10:
They’re ALL morons in the Bush Administation.
ferrofluid @ 6:
that makes sense, but is so wrong.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it……Andrew Young
Overwhelm the entire government with scandal and corruption and jet back to Tex to grin like a fucking idiot taking great pride in the expanse of his destruction.
Simply astonding . . . how can ONE Administration gather together SO MANY people with no moral code or ethics? Do they ALL hang out at the same whorehouse?
It will take years to remove the skidmarks of greed, incompetence, injustice and cruption left behind by this Failed Administration . . . the bar has been set SO LOW that just showing up only to collect a check would make the next Administration Appointees GODS!
The same people who complain about the lack of qualifications of Bush appointees, don’t have any problem with electing a part time politician from Chicago, who has been too busy running for president to attend to his Senate duties, who didn’t have a problem or shame in getting paid by the American people.
Is Efraim Diveroli a jew?
KO always knows how to keep it honest in telling it like it is - he’s the REAL non-spinner for a no-spin zone!
Why no posting of Olbermann’s worst person in the world?
Could it have somthing to do with Olbermann’s ripping into atheist Rob Sherman for having written this on his website?
“Now that Negroes like Representative Monique Davis have political power, it seems that they have no problem at all with discrimination, just as long as it isn’t them who are being discriminated against.”
john doheny @ 11:
Theres an interesting Greg Palast BBC documentary on Google video, worth watching, explains about the undamaged above water (and far away from damaged zones) level fancy brick built public housing that got boarded up and the tenants evicted.
Consensus is that property developers and some local politicians think that the areas are too good for public housing, Katrina was a good excuse to clear the tenants out.
USA government is corrupt in human rights in the treating of PWO on their warfare against terroism when comapred to China treating rebellious monks in Tibet. So is CNN-the product of people those selectively attack China for the purpsoe of scoring viewer’s rating. Worse still is Jack Cafferty-a product of USA people.His comment on China is obviously as corrupt as his personal moral standard; the worst in the world of human rights standard; is to condemn the people ’s governemnt of China-which is the governem nt chosen by the people of China so that it can hurt as many Chinese in and outside China and in the State as much as possible.
It show how disrespectful to human being with these coments that offend to human right by its gossip nature news to the largest populated country on earth. Is that not human right in the worst standard? It shows how shallow, ignorant and arrogant that Jaff can be. As a product of America people, any American can be as low as him, as he is a prodcut of American media and cultural system of hating people is which some American people good at among themselves, These people hate others regardless of race, colour skin or political view. This is because some American are agent of devilish mindset,disguising in the name of human rights supporter. Even a child less than eight month is burnt alive to death in Tibet riot, and is not well mentioned in Jaff’s comment on China on CNN. What standard of human right did Jaff respect in his commentory;if human life is not worth being respected more than human right? So how would the name of China be respected As tright to live iis repsected by Tibot rebellious monks, who comdemn them? Jaff? CNN?
This kind of reporter/commentator, also comments on China, its product, which is imported to America by American, what will the devil laugh at? It must be the Amercian.
Why would Jaff make his comment claiming China products are rubbish-just simply inducing hate to China and its people’s government. People will see what the Amercian media cultural system is good at. Condeming people’s government of another country in the name of human right , and by not condmening their own country what worse at is also what Jaff can be at best. That is what the devil want to see-hatred among people of the two country! After all Jaff is only a human. How much does he actually konw before his devilish commentary?
Learn this lesson of the moral standard of America- people of China and people of Chinese origion. God will not bless America for this, but save those who are rightous , regardless they are in America or China.
The game of politics has pushed out those that need it most. The foreclosures are rising, unemployment is gaining steady steam, manufacturing jobs are slowly bleeding out of country, with a lot of corporations coming in with massive subsidies… where should government be in this whole process ? You’re a republican or a democrat ? Who cares, we need to help each other as human beings… emergency oil portaits ? Is your face melting ? what’s wrong with you ? I want to be able to sleep at night and I am glad that I don’t have to face the demons that most of these religious people will have to answer to… wait, I am sorry, they are already forgiven, as they are now into the private sector. Things to watch - voter fraud (sic), further exposes on torture and congress being aware, increasing terrorist recruitment around the world, violence grows no only in middle east, etc etc etc. Who is really keeping a tab ? The government ??? No offense, but they are incapable of governing themselves, us or any foreign policy. Noam Chomsky had it right, after the WW2, our government employed nazis, used anti-human tactics and basically put the wealth in charge of protecting their fiefdoms. Sorry for any grammatical mistakes, it’s late and after reading more on the Don Siegelman trials, John Yoo memos, etc, I am getting tired of seeing our government still talk about 9/11 like it changed anything ?! Instead, it’s the people that changed around 9/11 to suit their greedy needs. Why get into politics ? To lie to us and screw us all out of our money. I have experience with communists regimes and I can only say that the democratic regime is more nuanced in its propaganda and the level of which they abuse their citizenry. Please, all, have a delightful evening. Cheers.
hello China @ 24:
People who work for CNN and Fox tend to be PNAC (Project for the New American Century) types, western running dog imperialists etc.
They are plugged into the PNAC meme and are scared witless that Republican incompetence and greed has destroyed the very thing they craved.
Anybody with a brain knows that China produces manufactured goods like any other industrial country some good some bad, and if some company asks for cheap goods for export they get cheap. and the 21st C is likely to be China, sheer number of industrial companies and the good brains working in those companies dictates this.
Global human civilization and culture was built up upon 10,000 years (since last ice age) of cooperative trading and flow of ideas and cultures from small scale to massive.
Incompetent!
No one will do a fuckin thing about these assholes
Much as I enjoy Keith’s work and endorse his comments here, someone really ought to tell him how to pronounce Nepal. It rhymes with “appall,” not “a pal.”
When making fun of someone for being an uninformed dolt, it’s vital not to sound like an uninformed dolt while doing so.
No rationalisation please. If progressives are going to raise the bar, we have to be consistent about it. Sadly, Keith took a slam-dunk and ended up making himself sound as stupid as Hadley.
Don’t you just love republican scum?
And Alphonso’s job qualification? He was Busholini’s neighbor in Dallas.
Heckuva job, Warpig.
ferrofluid @ 3:
I hope Master Diveroli is under protective custody pending his appearance before Congress. Not only does he appear to be a serious flight risk, but also I would not be surprised to learn that he had ‘fronted’ some really ugly people. If so, his usefulness to them would be at an end.
Everytime FDA fines a company for food violations, the price goes up and yet the company will put even more poisons on are food. We are being lied to every which way the media turns. Thanks allot Cops for only caring about a job for yourself.
Still no mention of Rob Sherman’s writing
“Now that Negroes like Representative Monique Davis have political power, it seems that they have no problem at all with discrimination, just as long as it isn’t them who are being discriminated against.”?
Guess you don’t like to admit that atheists can be racist shitbags.