Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Second rate reporter says what?

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

This really is a full service blog.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

T R E 4 5 O N

Republicans in disarray!

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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  2. 2.

    TenguPhule

    Another $700 mil pissed down a hole in Iraq because nobody thought to write oversight into the contract. We’re all Bill Murray now.

    Hah, that’s peanuts these days.

    $20 Billion pissed onto the fire of burning money that is BOA.

    Plus another $118 billion in the works.

    So yeah, $138 Billion for Bank of America, which is still constipated from Lynch and Country.

    Suck on that America.

  3. 3.

    Svensker

    Another $700 mil pissed down a hole in Iraq because nobody thought to write oversight into the contract.

    Well, thank God it didn’t go to workers in America who belong to unions. THAT would piss me off.

  4. 4.

    BDeevDad

    But, but, earmarks are the source of all budget problems. McCain and Glenn Reynolds told me so.

  6. 6.

    The Moar You Know

    From the linked article:

    Collins and some of her colleagues authored a law last year that prohibited the use of more U.S. money for major Iraq reconstruction projects.

    Never let it be said that I oppose Republicans just because they’re Republicans. Senator Collins has a damn good idea here and it’s long past time for such a law to be passed.

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    Brick Oven Bill

    Way Out There Conspiracy Theory based upon Paul Chefurka’s excellent website.

    There was little oversight because those pipes in southern Iraq were not only being installed to facilities that would have no output, which of course they won’t because we’ll let the Iraqis run them, guaranteeing that they will fall apart, providing cover for our sneaky plan.

    Some of those pipes in southern Iraq were extended to Saudi Arabia. The reason for this is because Saudi production peaked in the middle of 2005 (graph in link), and if this were to become widely known, then the API assumptions, which are total crap, would be revealed as total crap. So it is necessary to make it appear that the Saudis can continue to pump more oil.

    In the middle of 2005, Saudi oil output peaked at 9.5 MBD, then fell off in peak-like manner for no reason that I can tell to 8.6 MBD at the beginning of 2007. Saudi oil output in 2008 reached 9.7 MBD.

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    Bill Arnold

    $20 Billion pissed onto the fire of burning money that is BOA.

    That is a seriously broken metaphor.

  10. 10.

    bayville

    Evidently WaPo editors thought the story was very notable. They ranked it "Page A14" worthy.

  11. 11.

    Comrade Dread

    Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said yesterday, "The report cites a familiar and troubling litany of poor planning, insufficient security and the failure of the Iraqi government to protect and maintain facilities." Bush administration to be able to find their ass with two hands, a map, a compass and a bloody flashlight."

    Fixed.

    I need to lose my conscious, become an epic douchebag and start my own government contracting company.

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    Ash Can

    Another $700 mil pissed down a hole in Iraq because nobody thought to would ever in a million fucking years write oversight into the contract since it would prevent them from grabbing their own bucketfuls of the loot.

    There. All fixed up.

  13. 13.

    Reverend Dennis

    The KBR contract was based on costs plus a fixed fee and carried cash rewards based on performance. Although KBR did well in the areas of health and safety measures as well as property management, it was penalized in areas such as cost-overrun forecasts and project schedules. As a result, an evaluation board awarded the company $6.5 million out of a potential $25 million.

    They were "only" awarded $6.5 million? I will comprehensively fuck up any project you’d care to put me on for half that much.

  14. 14.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said yesterday, "The report cites a familiar and troubling litany of poor planning, insufficient security and the failure of the Iraqi government to protect and maintain facilities." Bush administration to be able to find their ass with two hands, a map, a compass, and a bloody flashlight and someone standing next to them tapping them on the shoulder and pointing at it."

    Fix’t moar. ;)

  15. 15.

    aarrgghh

    … because nobody thought to write oversight into the contract.

    is that like when steve martin winks at the camera and says "oops! i … forgot!"

  16. 16.

    grandpajohn

    … because nobody thought to write oversight into the contract.

    shit, with this bunch of criminals why would anyone think that it was accidental that there was no oversight

  17. 17.

    Rudi

    All the financial malfeasance is meaningless, the Iraqis are pro-life, love W and support creationism. Mr. Kate o’Beirn is doing a heck of a job…

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    jonas

    Ah, the incredible lightness of being KBR. You get a $50 million dollar contract to build a water purification plant. You spend $500 hiring some Iraqi truck drivers to offload a bunch of rusty drainage pipes in a big pile on the lot where the plant should be built. When the government asks how that purification plant is coming along, you explain that there have been some complications, you know, subcontractor delays and whatnot, but that due to the way the contract is written, you are actually owed $100 million if the project is not completed.

    Wash, rinse, repeat.

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