Fellow Democrats:

Just in case you haven’t seen Alan’s new ad on TV yet, you can check it out on-line at the DailyKos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/25/155020/561/340/556978

An Out of Iraq Town Hall meeting in the month of April will be held in Tucson, Arizona - 7th Congressional District. The time and the date of the meeting to be announced. The actual topics to be addressed at the Town Hall meeting will be released about one week before the meeting. To be a part of this meeting contact info@harleymeyer.com

Contact Info: info@harleymeyer.com

Harley Meyer

Independent Candidate for US Congress

7th Congressional District Arizona

www.harleymeyer.com 

Let's just do it! It's our country and Mr Bush is the most un-American president that has ever disgraced the office. Cheney is not only un-American, he's a bigger criminal than Bush!

They fight for oil! They fight for the want of wealth to the detriment of our country. It's time to pull the rug out from under them. Impeachment is just not enough, it's not! One dead soldier was one too many!

Death for oil. To high of a price! So lets remove oil from our list of needs. Can we? Heck yes! Will we crash the oil industry? Yep! Will we hurt our incomes? we could but it would be very short term.
How? Google "HHO"
If by some unfair twist Bush and Cheney get off scot free, they'll go broke. So will their supporters. Justice can be ours! We don't need oil! We don't need natural gas or propane. We don't need coal or wood to smoke things up. Google HHO and take away their cash.

In yet another sign that a change has come to Capitol Hill in the form of a Democratic Congress that actually works for a living, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the new Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has introduced two bills to crack down on the war profiteers who have been fed so much money by the Bush administration.

Leahy wasted no time on the very first day of the 110th Congress last week in proposing both S.118, the Effective Corruption Prosecutions Act of 2007 and S. 119, the War Profiteering Prevention Act of 2007.

"Last year, despite the mounting evidence of widespread contractor fraud and abuse in Iraq, the Republican-controlled Senate would not act on it," said Leahy, in re-introducing the War Profiteering Prevention Act on the Senate floor. "Instead, the Congress took a terrible misstep in seeking to end the work of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction."

From our 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' file, we have news that Senate Republicans followed up their rejection of a bill last week to penalize corrupt companies like Halliburton, with a vote today against another measure that would have formed an oversight committee to investigate defense-contractor fraud.

With only 44 votes in favor, the second such bill -- also sponsored by Byron Dorgan (D-ND) -- went down in flames 52-44, with Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) the only GOP senator voting for the bill's passage.

I suppose it's old news at this point that the Bush administration lied us into the Iraq war and that the cost of this mess will be fully realized by the next generation when Bush leaves office with the biggest budget deficit in U.S. history. And, while Democrats have been complaining for years about the GOP-led Congress abandoning its oversight of the executive branch's wrongdoing, a vote that took place in the Senate last week shows how the Republican desire to ignore fraud and abuse extends right into killing legislation that would help stop defense contractors from ripping off the American people.

Perhaps Dick Cheney's battery is due for replacement; he's obviously powered down. He snoozed through Chinese President Hu Jintao official visit to the White House. (None of that nonsense about "drawing the pay and doing the day" for him.) After all, several of his primary missions have been accomplished: enrich big business and big oil. They are, after all, the people who count – it's certainly not the American people, who are now playing in a daily gas lottery at the pump.

September 22, 2005

The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Bush:

As Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, we are troubled by reports that the Bush Administration has already begun to direct reconstruction and relief contracts towards companies that have a proven record of waste, fraud and other contract-related abuses in Iraq and elsewhere.

As you know, federal acquisition regulations require the federal government to only contract with “responsible prospective contractors only.”

(UK Independent) Halliburton, the world's largest military private contractor, has made at least $8bn (£4.3bn) in war-torn Iraq - doing everything from washing American troops' laundry to setting up vital oil supplies. Now, a critically well-placed army employee says contracts were unfairly awarded to Halliburton, whose chief executive used to be US Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Bunnatine Greenhouse, the highest-ranking civilian in the US Army Corps of Engineers, saw the contracts handed to Halliburton pass over her desk. She objected to all of them on the grounds that the government was being too generous to the Texas-based company. Now she might lose her job.

[...]

Time and again, there was little or no competition for the huge contracts the US administration awarded, and repeatedly, it seemed that senior army people were stepping in to overrule her attempts to make KBR accountable.

(Aljazeera) An ex-employee of a Halliburton subsidiary and a Kuwaiti businessman have been indicted for defrauding the US government of more than $3.5 million.

Prosecutors said on Thursday the charges relate to a fuel supply contract for military operations in Kuwait.

The indictments came two days after the Pentagon said military auditors still had major issues with Halliburton and three days after Democratic congressmen released an audit questioning $108 million in costs by the firm.

Jeff Alex Mazon, formerly of Halliburton's Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), and Ali Hijazi, managing partner of LaNouvelle General Trading and Contracting Co of Kuwait, were indicted on 10 counts of fraud by a federal grand jury in Illinois, the Justice Department said in a statement.