One city that isn’t happy about the Pentagon’s decision to put the Air Force tanker contract on hold is Mobile, Ala., where the final assembly of the Northrop Grumman-European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. tanker would take place. But city officials offered a backhanded compliment to Reps. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, and Norm Dicks, D-Wash., for their politically savvy efforts to block the deal. The two lawmakers “fought a fantastic fight,” Bay Haas, director of the Mobile Airport Authority, told the Mobile Press-Register. “It’s amazing what they did with nothing to work with.” But a Press-Register editorial wasn’t as complimentary, charging that lawmakers from Kansas and Washington state threw temper tantrums and misled their colleagues while doing “Boeing’s political dirty work in Congress.”
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This has been an epic battle for Tiahrt. The Alabama paper is kicking up a fuss and making it sound like “dirty work.” This is a fight over jobs.
Airbus, don’t forget, has had John McCain in their corner on this. Of course, the presidential contender would say that he “only wants a fair bidding process.”
It’s hard to see how this ends well for Tiahrt, Wichita, and Boeing if McCain wins the presidency and uses his influence with cabinet appointments and in congress.
Hee hee hee.
And mcsame will carry both Wichita and Kansas.
Vote against your own best interests much?
But hey, we’re still safe from gay marriage….
Ever hear of “single issue voting”?
It is often a bad idea.
Tiahrt has done a great job on this issue.
By the way, Obama is promising huge cuts, across the board, in all military spending.
We might not get any tankers, at all, if Obama wins.
Doesn’t the staff of the Mobile Press-Register find their spouses at their family reunions?
Had it not been for the GAO determination, the tanker would’ve been another Mccain done deal. Their backhanded compliment has little basis in reality. Sure tiahrt was for it being overturned, but so were many kansans (except Gates).
If you’re going to be a single issue voter, it might as well be about your back pocket.
It is interesting to see the ‘other side’ of this controversy.
“Franklin
Posted September 17, 2008 at 9:38 am | Permalink
Ever hear of “single issue voting”?
It is often a bad idea.”
You mean like voting for Todd on the single issue of helping his former employer?
What with the Bridge-to-Nowhere narrative turning out to be such a humdinger of an exercise in the truth coming out over time, perhaps the faithful can hang their hats on voting along those fictional lines.
The 17th century Jesuit Baltasar Gracian wrote, “Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.” (Maxim 146.)
Mainly like voting for a person because they have an R after their name, or because you think you can relate to them.
“Royall” –
Mark Twain said
everythingit best:“A lie can go ’round the world three times before the Truth can get its boots on.”
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