Whoah… hahhahahahhahahahahaha! First you spank yourself, and then this? Ho, that’s rich!

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

My point is that Dianne Fienstein’s husband is the head of a very large company that also receives no-bid contracts like Halliburton. Again, Halliburton received the same kind of no-bid contracts throughout the Clinton administration. There is a good reason for no-bid contracts too. It’s a lot more efficient to award certain contracts to companies which are capable of delivering the services needed without going through the bureaucratic process of bidding, which delays the delivery of critical products and/or services.

If you trust a single word that Henry nostrilitis Waxman says, that’s your problem not mine.

By the way, I didn’t say that there was anything unethical about Feinstein’s husband heading that company. But if you’re going to shout Halliburton to the rooftops, you better shout Feinstein’s husband too.

Also, if Halliburton overcharged, they rightly paid the government back. I went to Marshall Fields and was overcharged, are you going to make a Federal case out of it, Brian?

// Feinstein spokesman Howard Gantman similarly dismissed any ethics concerns, saying none of the contracts is voted on by the Senate. “We have checked with the Ethics Committee to make sure there is no conflict of interest, and have been told there are no conflicts,” Gantman said.

By the way, we questioned the office of Rep. Henry Waxman, the Los Angeles Democrat and House Government Reform Committee member whose protest recently halted the awarding of a defense contract to Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton.

“That’s a fundamentally different situation,” said Waxman’s chief of staff, Phil Schiliro. His boss objected to a Halliburton subsidiary being awarded a no-bid contract to repair Iraqi oil fields because the firm had just paid $2 million to settle a claim that it had overcharged the government on an earlier contract, Schiliro said.

“The government didn’t allow any other bidders to compete for the contract, and gave Kellogg Brown & Root (the Halliburton subsidiary) the kind of contract it had just abused,” Schiliro said. //

Dude, you just spanked yourself!

Even Chris has seen the light.

Cheney’s war profiteering is argueably impeachable.

// “As this C.R.S. report shows,” Lautenberg said, “The ethics standards for financial disclosure is clear. Vice President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton.”

On Sept. 14, Cheney said on the NBC News program “Meet the Press” that “Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush’s vice president, I’ve severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven’t had, now, for over three years.” //

http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/news/companies/cheney/index.htm

There’s also Nine. Billion. Dollars. Missing. In Iraq. Under the fiscal management of the Republicans.

// WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nearly $9 billion of money spent on Iraqi reconstruction is unaccounted for because of inefficiencies and bad management, according to a watchdog report published Sunday. //

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/

Bush lied people died. Bush lied people died. Bush lied people died. Bush lied people died. Halliburton! Halliburton! Halliburton!Halliburton! Halliburton! Halliburton!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/27/BA284459.DTL

Oh, that’s right. Cheney’s immune from criticism here. Oh, well. Bring on your next tempest in a teapot, then.

Personally, I really need Alan Fine’s contact info and I can’t find it anywhere. If anyone has it and can post a email or campaign phone number, it would be much appreciated.