tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935867728643631497.post7448786221160693373..comments2023-10-19T03:02:58.843-05:00Comments on Beltway Progressive: What is Tom Davis Up To? Part III -- ICF in the GulfBeltway Progressivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06818512273606907378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935867728643631497.post-64755864333178143252007-01-31T23:59:00.000-05:002007-01-31T23:59:00.000-05:00Representative Tom Davis, the Virginia Republican ...Representative Tom Davis, the Virginia Republican who is the committee’s chairman, began his own remarks by charging that critics of the reconstruction “oversimplify, distort and prejudge the outcome of a complex contracting process to fit the preordained conclusion that everything goes wrong in Iraq.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14145">CorpWatch</a><br /><br /><a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935867728643631497.post-40675735021291964552007-01-31T23:52:00.000-05:002007-01-31T23:52:00.000-05:00More coming out on Oversight failures in Iraq by h...More coming out on Oversight failures in Iraq by <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/griff+witte/">here</a> and <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/articles/renae+merle/">here.</a>Beltway Progressivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818512273606907378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935867728643631497.post-68345361327536491612007-01-30T19:34:00.000-05:002007-01-30T19:34:00.000-05:00The current state of the Congressional ethics rule...The current state of the Congressional ethics rules reminds me of a true story involving some country's soccer officials. (This happened within the last two years as I recall.) The country's governing soccer body said it was okay for people to give money to soccer officials as long as it didn't influence their officiating.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935867728643631497.post-59628089734155249752007-01-30T00:23:00.000-05:002007-01-30T00:23:00.000-05:00Thanks for coming by! The District is going bluer...Thanks for coming by! The District is going bluer. In fact, Davis only kept his job because his usual $3.5 million in donations, which he usually spreads around to corrupt incumbents in exchange for other favors, stayed home this cycle. He spent it against a really exciting challenger in Andy Hurst. With no money from PACS or the National Dems he raised $300,000 and drove Davis crazy in debatesBeltway Progressivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06818512273606907378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8935867728643631497.post-16783262908994964102007-01-30T00:01:00.000-05:002007-01-30T00:01:00.000-05:00Hey B.P.
Thanks for dropping by Choosing Hope, wh...Hey B.P.<br /><br />Thanks for dropping by <a href="http://walkerw.blogspot.com/">Choosing Hope</a>, where I was celebrating Waxman's ascendency to chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In fact I was fairly ignorant about Tom Davis except to know that he had been chair of this Committee, and hence had to have acquiesced to his party's refusal to look at the legitimate dirt Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07043584417557166784noreply@blogger.com