White House directed a $25 million no-bid contract to Checchi and Company Consulting, Inc.
Despite President Obama’s long history of criticizing the Bush administration for “sweetheart deals” with favored contractors, the Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.
The contract, awarded on Jan. 4 to Checchi & Company Consulting, Inc., a Washington-based firm owned by economist and Democratic donor Vincent V. Checchi, will pay the firm $24,673,427 to provide “rule of law stabilization services” in war-torn Afghanistan.
Full story: Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor – FOXNews.com
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Pay for Play, the Chicago Way! Nothing new here, business as usual……
It’s rumored that Checchi & Company Consulting is being purchased and will soon become a subsidiary of Halliburton.
Hey all you conservatives…a great read, “Rules for Conservative Radicals” by Michael Patrick Leahy. It gives us ammunition against the Saul Alinsky tactics used so effectively by the far-left!
“I listen to NPR and post here as well as the Huffington post. “
Wow, so you only go to pure unbiased news sources to get your information, huh?
Here’s how I got my information (so you’ll know where I’m coming from). I spent years on Liberal sites, watching MSNBC & CNN, reading columns from some of the finest Moderate and Conservative thinkers (I’ve given up trying to find Liberal thinkers to read), listening to all forms of talk radio (Liberal, Conservative, and everything in between), and debating endlessly with people from all ends of the political spectrum. I’ve migrated to Fox because MSNBC is so blatantly dishonest (I remember when Chris Matthews was actually semi-informative) and CNN can’t figure out if they want to be Liberal or neutral (but are more than happy to bash anyone who doesn’t tow the Liberal line). I read web sites that are Moderate to Conservative, but have given up on HuffPo (and the KOS is an abomination that’s not worth even considering) because it’s so blatantly hateful and ignorant (there were at least 15 columns defending child-rapist Roman Polanski in the first week after his arrest).
If you’d like to brag about learning everything from HuffPo and NPR, that’s your prerogative, but I’m embarrassed that I haven’t worked harder to be informed on the issues.
Des1, I got back to this post late after encountering the troll earlier. Your points are well-stated and suggest to me there is some informed passion to your views. That makes for good reading. You might be done with this thread for now, but I didn’t think merely giving you a ‘Thumbs Up’ for your comments would suffice. Thanks for sharing your views here.
“But I will chalk that up to even Obama has to play the game once in a while to get things done in our corporate government.”
You see, this is exactly what I’m talking about. You can’t site me a single instance of him ever standing up to corruption in his political career, but I can show you hundreds of him using it to his political advantage (including that lovely business with him getting millions for Valerie Jarret, Tony Rezko, and other supporters at the expense of the taxpayers and the poor people who suffered in the housing slums they ran). You are “surprised” by his being dishonest tells me you are completely uninformed about him. Whether that’s because you didn’t do any research or because you’re naive, I don’t know (or care). But you assume he has good intentions without a single fact to support it. At the same time you happily assume Fox news (or Faux as you so cleverly put it) are probably liars without a single thing to base it on.
Sorry dude, no Republican talking points here. Just an Independent who watched in horror as Liberal nitwits elected a 1st term Senator with practically no experience in anything other than playing the dirty side of the system to the highest office in the land. Every time it was revealed that he had unsavory friends or conducted shady deals, they called the people uncovering it liars or racists. Unemployment is at it’s highest in 3 decades (probably even higher than in 1981), we’re further in debt than we’ve ever been, we’re treating terrorists like shoplifters who shouldn’t be mistreated in any way, and Leftist special interests are stealing billions (strike that, hundreds of billions) of our tax money.
If that’s your definition of a good job, you and I definitely attended different schools.
Remember Obama taught and follows Saul “Alinsky’s rules” Alinsky said morals have no place in politics, the end is all that matters. Quite a far cry from our founding Fathers.
Hey all you conservatives…a great read, “Rules for Conservative Radicals” by Michael Patrick Leahy. It gives us ammunition against the Saul Alinsky tactics used so effectively by the far-left!
The complete lack of executive experience and nothing on his resume to indicate leadership were the two things that bothered me the most. Our country was stressed to the max over two wars and a crumbling financial infrastructure, yet voters wanted to take a gamble on a baritone voice and a big smile. Lordy, lordy, lordy……
Sure hope people have learned from this very expensive lesson.
Mr. Obama awarded American GM to the unions for their support, European bankers European GM for their support, Libya got the Lockerbie bomber released for oil, Syria for counterfeit money into the Obama campaign got Boeing contracts, ACORN they are still picking the nuts up to find out how much cash they got, so Obama awarding a few million in crony contracts is par of the Obama course.
Let us not forget that Patrick Fitzgerald got a job over all US Attorneys when he couldn’t see Emanuel and Obama were buying a Senate seat for Val-erie Jarrett which Rod Blagojevich was turned into a political prisoner over for daring challenge Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is a crook. He hires tax frauds like Geithner who manipulated the stock market for revenue illegally in 2009 and all of this is about criminal enterprises and not about profits.
That 25 million should have gone to US Soldiers as bonuses for being dumped into Obama’s slaughter pit.
Semper Fi
Having a business is all about making money…No one seems to have a problem with a movie theater charging 10 dollars for one popcorn and a coke..LOL But let a bank or an oil company make a profit and we are sicking the government on them to take their profits away..One good thing about America is that you can do the same if you want to work hard and make a business work. Look at Bill Gates…Once a hero now that he is accomplish he is called money grubbing Na_zi…Cant have it both ways folks..we are either free or we are NOT