Agents from the inspector general’s office found that the living and working quarters of American occupation officials were awash in shrink-wrapped stacks of $100 bills, colloquially known as bricks…One contractor received more than $100,000 to completely refurbish an Olympic pool but only polished the pumps; even so, local American officials certified the work as completed.
Now, really.
You Republicans–this operation was run straight out of the American Enterprise Institute, with interns from AEI on a pipeline to the CPA.–are you blushing yet?
Where is the vaunted businesslike, pragmatic, delegate authority, demand accounability, ethos that Republicans curry as their stock in trade–a hard headed, (if lamentably hard-hearted) green eyeshade book keeping kind of ethos?
Shrink wrapped bricks of hundreds?
Will you not admit that the Bush administration has proved itself monumentally incompetent to handle large sums of money, let alone great worldwide responsibility?
Do you acknowledge the need for ANY cleaning of this Augean Stable? Or is the description in the cite business as usual in the new political economy?
alaricthegoth, I have added the parenthetical phrase to the title explaining what the thread was apparently intended to discuss.
Please note that we have an explicit thread stickied to the top of the Forum requesting PLEASE USE DESCRIPTIVE TITLES WHEN STARTING THREADS.
In recent weeks, you have begun posting attacks on the administration that are increasingly more arcane with titles that are increasingly less relevant to the topic. Please stop it.
Beyond that, you have begun to flood this Forum with what are, basically, simple rants against the current administration couched in expressions ranging from the byzantine to hip-hop in structure, but which all amount to the single premise “Look! I found another incident in which I think the administration has screwed up; when are you supporters going to admit that the president and his staff and party are wrong/dishonest/stupid/corrupt/whatever.”
That is not what this Forum is for. You already have several threads ranting about related topics. I would strongly suggest that when you find new evidence of incompetence or perfidy, you simply add it to whichever single thread seems to have the best (most logical, most factually supported) debate ongoing and stop flooding the Forum with new threads that simply use new evidence to support the same old complaint.
This is not an order to limit yourself to one thread at a time, but it is a clear indication that your behavior is sufficiently irritating to the TM and staff that we may impose such a limitation if it continues. Between your repetitive topics and your inability to post a coherent Opening Post, you are not actually doing your mission to unseat President Bush any good at all.
As for this thread, itself, it is little more than a rant, so I am going to move it over to the Forum where such rants feel more comfortable.
Good eye! I had to go back and read it again, but there it was. With practice and care and maybe some tantric technics, a couple of hours might be attainable.
