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Tankerless Todd has been running getting pork for his former employer for his entire political career.

I would like to know what the percentage of GDP that a country spends has to do with the ability to build an aircraft………………….

Only from the mind of Tiahrt.

wall street journal owned by murdock who ownes faux news who claim to be pro american.

so, this is a ploy to convince voters it’s ok to give taxpayer money to france ??

and… vote for sad ol’ mccain.

tiahrt has a mind? Wow! Why hasn’t he used it?

Hey dog, share the date, time and place. Maybe a bunch of his constituents not on his mailing list did to be present too. I usually get his mailers. I got the BIG four-color glossy that made me sick to my stomach over the wasted money and wrote him about that. Do you think that got me removed? I am a complainer.

I also got the notice in yesterday’s mail about the money the gobmit will be sending me. That made me irritated too! Wonder how much of OUR moeny it cost to send out notice they will be sending us some of OUR money this spring / summer??

This is only the second time I know of him having them in Augusta. The first time I read it in the local news paper and noted the date and time. This time is March 24th at the Pizza Hut from 12 noon till 1 p.m. though I would suspect he has them all over the 4th district from time to time. I give Congressman Tiahrt credit, he is a good speaker and seems to be able to answer questions in such a way that on the face seem logic. also in a way that you feel he is supportive of what ever opinion you have on an issue. He is intellgent and as I said well spoken. He had a talent for finding the common ground even if it does not make a difference to a major issue.

I’ve been called and participated (listened actually) in a phone town hall meeting. I did have a question and got in line (long lines!) but had to hang up before it was my turn. Roberts also has these town hall meetings by phone and I’m called on those too. I am on all their lists as a complainer I’m sure. I call, I wrote, I email, I complain AND I VOTE!

Thanks, Dog!

I finally got around to reading the linked Wall Street Journal editorial. Now, first off, though I disagree with them often, I have to say I’ve long been admirer of the scribes at The Journal’s editorial page. Somehow, they’re just a little more sporting in the biting way in which they go about expressing themselves. That said, the linked installment reminds me of the one from last week, which was written, if memory serves, by The National Review. In both cases, on the surface, you have the editorialists utterly appalled because an American company wants to exercise its option for a fair hearing. What’s the big deal? Hey, if everything is on the up and up, then there’s nothing to have their pants all in a bunch about…right? The recurring theme is that the conservative political writers in this little disagreement are in a big toot to get them to sign–as the Alec Baldwin character says in “Glengarry Glenn Ross”–”on the line which is dotted!” In delivering this sentiment, the aforementioned participants in political discourse have donned the cloak of the sanguine free market guru. You almost get the feeling that if you’re Tiahrt or one of the Democrats from the other involved districts, the bearers of the cloak of free market wisdom would invite you to an evening soiree at the free market rain dance, replete with peace pipe and various other goodies (a complimentary cloak?)if you promise to shut up and tow the line. Heck, if you’d only just go away and drop it, they’d even agree to quit naming you when they dispense with all the guidelines on proper free market comportment. Hey–relax, all right? No one’s actually making a claim that the ballyhooed maverick, none other than John McCain, actually acted in an unethical manner to the extent that his campaign reportedly has an interested lobbyist or two on board. And heaven knows that McCain’s posse of cheerleaders in the media will go to great lengths to give him a pass, no matter what comes out about this. They will either overlook it entirely or brush it off as somehow unimportant to McCain’s presidential aspirations because…well, they’ll think of something. So why worry? Everything is most assuredly on the up and up and, if not, no one’s going to kick up a fuss, anyway. Now go and get your cloak off the rack.

Stuart, you have a point in that Boeing has become so “diversified “ with the deal with mainland China and the like. That crying that North/gumman is not an American company and they still are is like one man walking into the whore house saying to the man walking out of the whore house. “You are a lowlife for visiting a Whore!”.

I’ll say things might be getting close to fair when the European governments allow USA contractors to bid on their military products. Boeing was explicitly shut out of bidding on the French and German tankers when they were in the market to buy. Also, they wouldn’t even consider the C-130 when starting the A400 program. To my knowledge, the Europeans haven’t allowed any American company to bid on military aircraft since Airbus started getting massive subsidies.