Wednesday, April 26, 2006

War Profiteers

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog: "But I’m interested in kicking up a bit of a stink now and using it as a wedge to separate people who genuinely believe in small government from the authoritarian cultists who revel in the spectacle of greed, corruption and excess. As Digby notes, I’ve been lobbying for the Truman Commission on War Profiteering to be re-convened for a long time. Dick Durbin has been promoting it (with no success, small wonder) but I just don’t see how it’s a losing proposition for the Democrats.

Everyone who is paying even the slightest bit of attention knows that war profiteers are sucking the life out of the Federal budget and ripping off the taxpayers even as soldiers are stripped of medical benefits and denied adequate armor. It’s the kind of stuff that makes even the most tight-assed social conservative indignant with rage. Plus the Truman Commission has all those 'greatest generation' overtones that speak to responsible oversight and good governance. I think agitating for it now, even if there is no hope of getting it through the GOP stonewall, at the very least makes Bush force his Congressional sycophants go on the record and oppose it. No good way to explain that to your constituents in an election year, really."

No comments: