Or a Santorum. Either way. 
But didn’t you get the news? Doing things via the private sector is ALWAYS cheaper and more efficient than the gub’mint doing things! Adding an extra layer of profit into the mix reduces the cost to us, the peepul! Right?
It only takes a few minutes at “FactCheck.org” to learn that they are less interested in “holding politicians accountable” than “criticizing ‘liberals’ and vindicating ‘conservatives’”. It’s more right-wing doublespeak. FactCheck.org is SpinDoctor.org.
Wow. Speaking of spin…
Let’s just set aside that FactCheck is brought to us by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, long one of NPR’s regular contributors and sources of funding. Let’s set aside that the front page prominently features a quote from Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as its mission statement. Let’s set aside that the front page presently says that Republicans have inaccurately accused Democrats of delaying court appointments, and that Specter and Armey (both Republicans) are misleading America about asbestos lawsuits. Let’s set aside that our own Elucidator has repeatedly cited FactCheck, like here: “The best take on it I’ve seen comes from FactCheck, a project of the Annenberg Foundation. (I recommend that you bookmark these people, they truly seem determined to be non-partisan and factual).”
Setting all that aside, the facts and documents of the article remain. Dick Cheney is not profiting from Haliburton’s activity since he left, either by salary or by stock ownership. Do you or do you not have anything substantive with which to rebut them.
In politics it seems that if smoke is around for a while with no sign of fire, then it’s just smoke. Democrats would be going apeshit if there was really something to this.
Regarding factcheck.org, I’m on their email list, and it sure seems like they take on lies from both parties. If they’re supposed to biased towards dems, they need to start doing a better job, at least in their emails.
Well, I only spent a few minutes on the site, so maybe I’m wrong.
Well, I don’t know, I’m sure there are situations where contracting the private sector makes sense (such as very high tech stuff), but I feel it should be openly bid, and no cost-plus deals. KBR was charging not for what they provided, but for what they’d estimated they would provide, in food service, which was a lot more. My understanding is that the Pentagon wants to keep soldiers primarily for battle, and leave other stuff for contractors. But I don’t think they save that much money the way they’re handling it, seeing as soldiers have done things like food service and housing for many years, and they surely can be trained to do security, such as Blackwater and Dimecorp (sp?) are doing. Those companies just hire ex-military anyway. At least that’s how it seems to me; correct me if I’m wrong.
Liberal, you can’t let the facts get in the way of yet another Gitmo/Halliburton pitting from the usual suspects. Your voice of reason is too much for the echo chamber. Heck, check out the pathetic ramblings in the Durbin pit thread…
One who spent only a few minutes on this site might ask Liberal to stop blindly sticking up for the Democratic Party that he follows religiously…
That is not fair. Lib is not interested in supporting the sectarion nature of religion and it is unfortunate that you would accuse him of doing so even analogously.
OK. OK. I’ll quit.
Really. I’m sick of his liberal whining and endless Bush bashing.
To be fair, Reeder is trying to bash Cheney. This time.
Oh come on, facts in a Reeder rant thread are like putting “Anita Bryant’s Greatest Hits” on continous rotation at a LAMBDA fund-raising dinner dance.
Regards,
Shodan
Not directly profiting. One could argue that the ex-Big Cheese of a corporation would remain kindly disposed toward it and make smooth its path whenever the occasion presented itself. There’s also guizot’s point about the revolving door.
But no, it’s correct to say that Cheney takes no direct profit (or indirect via stock held in trust) profit from Halliburton’s feeding at the public trough.
That still leaves us with plenty of other reasons to despise the man, though.
What’s not factual about it?
Everything.
Regards,
Shodan
What facts?
I was talking about Liberal, as a jest of making snap judgments at a glance (based, in this case, on his username).
The article doesn’t mention, is it known if there were bids on this contract?