There’s No Business Like No-Bid ness
The feeding frenzy has begun. Congress has been chumming for decades and now that the water is alive with sharks, they’re alarmed and surprised and ‘absolutely shocked,’ to lift a line from Casablanca.
If you’re a fisherman, you know what ‘chumming’ is. That’s when you throw lots of fish-bits overboard in order to attract other fish, which you are then (with any luck) able to catch. Government contracting been pretty much an uninterrupted chum ever since 9-11 and this administration has awarded more no-bid and cost-plus contracts than any preceding holder of the keys to the national purse. Lest I be accused of Bush-mongering, it would have been an equal-opportunity giveaway had the Democrats held those keys.
Happy Days Are Here Again and There’s No Business Like No-Bid ness are heard in the halls of a Congress giddy with money. Democrats and Republicans stumble over one another in their eagerness to get their own guys into the swim before there’s less blood in the water. Duke, from…