The Bush administration, to date, has not prosecuted even one single case against contractors accused of defrauding the US government in Iraq.

However, they have pressed charges against subcontractors accused of defrauding Halliburton.

The cases that have actually come to trial were pressed by "outsiders" who were peripherally involved in these contracts and sub-contracts, people like whistleblowers, sub-subcontractors who were never paid, and etc etc.

Alan Grayson testified in front of the Senate on Monday, in case anyone saw that - if not, it's being rebroadcast on C-SPAN this weekend.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
Herbert Hoover

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover

All men are equal before fish.
Herbert Hoover

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover
this will soon change

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover

No public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert Hoover

Old men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Hoover

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert Hoover

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.
Herbert Hoover

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There have been wiser men than Diogenes
- but they were too wise to be noticed.

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Winston Churchill

non:

Poor George ain't gonna have no arse left when you get done with him!

Funny you would put Lincoln out there as he was one of the biggest corporate welfare / mercantilists of his time.

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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." ~Thomas Paine

Bushie is no Lincoln?

Well the Democrats are still racist vote pimps, like the were in the 1850's. Except the Democrats flip flopped from being anti-black racists to anti-white racists, thats the only change.