September 16, 2005

Teapot Dome was a molehill

Karl Rove in charge of reconstruction?

If you thought graft and patronage for Republican contributors was out of control in Iraq, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Update: Paul Krugman agrees with me. What a surprise.

And to date the Bush administration, which has no stake in showing that good government is possible, has been averse to investigating itself. On the contrary, it has consistently stonewalled corruption investigations and punished its own investigators if they try to do their jobs.

That's why Mr. Bush's promise last night that he will have "a team of inspectors general reviewing all expenditures" rings hollow. Whoever these inspectors general are, they'll be mindful of the fate of Bunnatine Greenhouse, a highly regarded auditor at the Army Corps of Engineers who suddenly got poor performance reviews after she raised questions about Halliburton's contracts in Iraq. She was demoted late last month.

Yep. Whistleblowers need not apply in Bush's world.

This may be an opening for the biggest financial scandal this country has ever seen, which is probably only appropriate for the biggest natural disaster it's ever seen.

Posted by Linkmeister at September 16, 2005 12:01 AM | TrackBack
Comments

A weekly newsmagazine wrote that copious no bid contracts were awarded after Katrina devestated Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama..

Posted by: Toxiclabrat at September 16, 2005 11:14 AM