Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor

[StageLeft]

I agree it is wrong for the Obama administration to do this. Is that better? :awe:

You are better than most!

 

[DesiPower]

Change we can believe in... heil Obama!!

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Wow the faux outrage of the right continues, go figure

No bid contracts have been the candy dish of the executive branch for 50yrs, a completely legal but somewhat seedy practice that has been used extensively by all admins. GWB made an artform of the no bid contract, he swapped a 55gal drum for the candy dish and emptied and refilled it 5 times a day. So Obama grabs a couple of M&M's and he's the devil

You guys are a riot

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Change we can believe in... heil Obama!!

You can put away your SS boots and swaztika's and drop the heil business, in case your haven't heard the furrer was defeated in 2008

 

[GuitarDaddy]

double post

 

[FerrelGeek]

I thought it was a big story until I saw the amount. Sorry, it may be wrong but it's chump change compared to Blackwater, HaliCheney, etc which were and often still are excused and/or justified by the right. Carry on with the faux outrage and straw man building.

So because it was a small contract, it's OK? Your precious messiah rode into town claiming He was above such things. Since taking office, He has shown in every case to be the exact opposite of what He claimed to be. He's just another lowlife political slut.

 

[thraashman]

I'm sorta torn on the idea of bid vs no bid contracts. Obviously if there's no bid, then the government could be paying too much. But if there's a bid, and they go with the lowest bidder, who's to say they'll do as good of a job as another company that might come in a bit higher? I'd like to hope that the government does some basic amount of research and determines who would be the best to go with based on a cost/performance analysis.

Also, while you do have some dems in here defending this practice, you also have about half who won't and don't like it. So stop the bullshit outrage when you were perfectly fine when Bush was doing it and doing it 10x worse. I'm not gonna defend anything or attack it. But I can say that I don't think this looks good and hope that in the future very few contracts are no bid.

 

[rudder]

If that's true they are as bad as the Republicans. Do you have a reliable source to confirm this?

The Dems can only dream. The Halliburton deals were worth BILLIONS! Pffft The U.S. Government burns through 24 million every tenth of a second.

 

[EXman]

dems=reps in regards to ethics

Sadly it's starting to look that way.

Starting to look that way lol.

politicians in general = people w/o ethics

Power corrupts regardless of the party affiliation.

 

[EXman]

I thought it was a big story until I saw the amount. Sorry, it may be wrong but it's chump change compared to Blackwater, HaliCheney, etc which were and often still are excused and/or justified by the right. Carry on with the faux outrage and straw man building.

He's trying to take over 1/6th of the ecomomy. Haliburton is small potatos.

 

[Acanthus]

He's trying to take over 1/6th of the ecomomy. Haliburton is small potatos.

Regulate =/= take over.

 

[EXman]

He's trying to take over 1/6th of the ecomomy. Haliburton is small potatos.

Regulate =/= take over.

riiiiiiight.

 

[Acanthus]

riiiiiiight.

Is he "taking over" the banking industry too by passing new regulations?

Everyone has bank accounts!!

OMG he will have 100% of the economy.

Command and control! Marxist! *insert alarmist words*

(back on topic, im not a fan of no bid contracts)

 

[jpeyton]

Pretty awesome, as long as some of that $25 million gets funneled back to campaign contributions that will keep Republicans out of office.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Pretty awesome, as long as some of that $25 million gets funneled back to campaign contributions that will keep Republicans out of office.

Great sarcasm! Oh, wait. I forgort. Your just another 'ends justify the means / it's OK when we do it' livertroll.

 

[PJABBER]

You've been on this forum since 2001. Were you here bashing Bush for doing the same thing?

LOL, I get that question a lot and as I am waiting for my espresso machine to warm up I thought I would look up what the hell I was posting on in 2001. It certainly wasn't about politics.

I came to the site for Anand's techie reviews, for a kid in high school he did some great writing. But I also hung around at Ars Technica, Tom's Hardware, Sharky's and [H]ardOCP.

I don't even remember that AnandTech had a P&N forum at all then. Most of the time I hung around Hot Deals and For Sale to buy something or other for builds for me and my friends.

I did post one time on OT back then, it was a couple of posts on military service -

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=466264&page=3

From thread post #55, my first line is newbie classic -

This is kind of a funny thread for a techie forum site but since it brought back some memories I'll let fly, too.

Funny to see some of the guys posting in that thread are still posting now. I enjoyed re-reading Boberfett's description of what he used to do in the Army.

As you armchair detectives can see, my writing style remains the same. :awe:

One other non-opinionated short post in OT 9/2004, then blossomed in 2009 to make my current reputation for spot on commentary.

Coffee's on!

 

[nobodyknows]

I think he was saying that murdering people is wrong regardless if you kill 2 or 200. Excusing someone for ONLY murdering 2 people because someone else murdered 200 is just screwed-up thinking.

Who's excusing anybody? I'm say that murdering 100 people is 100 times worse then murdering 1 person. If want to argue about it then talk to the other 99 victim's wife/family.

 

[blackangst1]

So because it was a small contract, it's OK? Your precious messiah rode into town claiming He was above such things. Since taking office, He has shown in every case to be the exact opposite of what He claimed to be. He's just another GWB.

Fixed for accuracy

 

[werepossum]

For companies like Halliburton, there is at least some justification. When the need is 500 oil wells fires extinguished as quickly as possible or a million MREs a day distributed in a war zone, there aren't many companies that can do the job, and even fewer that are American. That drives the billion-dollar no-bid contracts with the likes of Halliburton. As the article quotes indicate, there are plenty of companies that could have done this work. Thus the outrage factor should be higher on this. The scrutiny however should still be mostly on the huge contracts, since 5% skimmed off the top of a billion dollar contract would be twice the total cost of this one.

 

[palehorse]

I am no longer surprised when Obama mimics Bush's worst practices.

 

[ebaycj]

$25 million

Obummer.

Really, honestly, who cares about a dropped penny?

 

[ebaycj]

BTW, FOX News is not about political commentary, it is a straight news operation.

Keep telling yourself that.