Today's rant on Hillary AND her latest attack as IMPERIUM QUEEN before election
The Next BIGGEST World Leader??
Hilary Clinton Rant of the Day
but your feet are showing
What happened? She's the new Woman of the Day for the mainstream media and for WALL STREET. Woman with an eye to seeing a woman in the White House, a leader of the alleged Free World, were so intent on seeing HiLIARy come to POWER, that she could do no wrong for many months.
You know, restore a little FDR fervor to the White House, while making the rest of the world think AMERICA was somehow back on track. WoW! SUPERWOMAN! Supermom! Superlawyer! Superdiplomat! Super-reformer! and she wears her plastic surgery so WELL, too.
In hindsight to those not in the know, Bill Clinton looks like a popular president. He was well educated. He was SLICK.
His huge economic blunders on behalf of "America" lay buried under worries people had about college tuition fees and CONSUMING. He had plenty of time to come up with an alternative energy plan for the US, but that lack of enduring environmentalism bothered no one; no one even put proper insulation into their homes, although his VP, Al Gore, had ample opportunity to help him out on this. Instead they set up consultancies in computer sales to the Chinese who know hack America's defense secrets and figure out ways that the team can make money off everyone trading carbon credits. But Hills and Billy keep on being The Couple.
He had the ever-faithful HiLIARy to rely on when his critics attacked him for his "indiscretions" as well as his lies. THEY played well to the Audience. They had choices which they blew to make America a better place but instead America was given Waco, Ruby Ridge, the attacks on honestly recovering drug addicts .fostering an outlandish attack on citizens known as the War on Drugs.
Sounds like their simple yet complicated life as a married couple could make people feel some identification as their common goal of raising a daughter, maintaining their power dreams and residences and electabllity would carry them through. Hillary's coronation as IMPERIUM QUEEN had been planned for over two decades. Now, that appears to be DEDICATION, doesn't it?
Ah, but the best-laid plans often come to NAUGHT.
Her bid for the throne has been shown to have WEAKNESS, which is not so cool if you campaign, not as a concerned wife and mother, but as an ICON of the Big Boys, the rough tough MURKAN Big Boys. She simply does not have the Oval Office experience. She has SECOND HAND power lust. Claiming that she can stump up the contacts to make her win her bid is not working out for her. She's just a fly on the wall in the White House, not the POWER.
The US executive class women who could SO easily get behind the sheClinton are not doing that. She takes questionable donations (Norman Hsui, Chinese busboys are bamboozled into contributing), but her Natural Audience goes begging. Where are the spiels to Rotary Club women, to Mothers Against Drunk Drivers? Woman executives in local governments? Women in Hollyweird? To women lawyers, for god's sake?? The picture of the male peacock has been criticized - but isn't that the role she decided to play??
Blessed with intelligence, she doesn't appear to be using it. She's run her campaign as if she was The Nominee -- everyone one else was merely playing their roles as Good Little Subjects - yet time and again, The Queenly touch has failed to touch love in their hearts of her minions
Unlike the Queen of England (or some other Crown state), she's gotten herself in HOT WATER. She's used America's military might to place an IMPERIAL Supreme Commander's hat, rather than wearing a crown of DECENCY.
She misses her cues . and the brittle face of authentic MURKAN authoritarianism and baffling COLDNESS comes to the fore, in place of HONEST ANSWERS. She waffles, she ducks, she votes for the wrong damned bills like the Kyl-Leiberman amendment, which threatens us all with WWIII implications!! The Queen hands out more wiretaps, more torture of foreigners, voting in an Attorney General who thinks WATERBOARDING is okay -- even IF it's not a tactic that elicits true information from a US detainee. She goes along with TORTURE.
As I've shown, she thinks she should be running any manner of things right down to the videogames, rather than relying on the Justice Department. Yesterday she got annoyed at OBVIOUS cronyISM in the Department of Homeland Security, but she voted for the Patriot Act.
For someone who graduated from law school, she doesn't seem to understand the US Constitution or know how to read case law on US Citizen's RIGHTS.
And this just highlights the difficulties she would have running the biggest military in the world, the biggest EMPIRE in the world, shouting out her message of FREEDOM around the world, and commanding respect. She isn't liked much anymore and certainly the respect is slipping by the day. Her experience packing lunches for Bill while he was President isn't standing her in stead as she tries to create her image.
Who is she running AGAINST? The Democrats or George BuZh? The American people?
The field of support she has is looking more threadbare by the day. Her campaigners make enemies at the debates and at political rallies as they elbow their way around and try to prevent other campaigners from having any ground to stand on. She's been accused of PLANTING proHilary forces in the stands .. this doesn't look too good for future leadership; if she were SECURE why would she be doing this ridiculously immature behavior and not trusting in her message? Because there is no message except this
The people are quickly getting fed up. With a campaign strategy that thin, who wants her running the WORLD? BuZh may be mesmerized, but WE are not.
Whatever base of enthusiasm in a base she COULD have built up is quickly drifting away ... the moms, the executive-class woman who hit the glass ceiling, the would be academic, the lawyer in a mid-sized law firm aghast she cannot be made partner - to them she doesn't offer much of a HOPE at all.
The women journalists who might have been her BIGGEST fans of all, are not defending her nor writing those WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONderfulling articles about her High Highness expected to see.
And the funeral notices beginning to pour in ...
I could not care less.
Hillary Clinton: Senator Clinton Calls for Investigation of Homeland Security Contractor Bonuses
November 26, 2007 -- Washington, DC – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today called on the Inspector General of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand an investigation of federal contracting practices to investigate the practice of award fees by DHS, especially when it comes to no-bid contracts.
Senator Clinton’s call comes in light of a recent report by DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner that DHS improperly awarded a $475 million no-bid contract to Chenega Technology Services Corporation, which according to the report “likely did not provide the government the best value” and that DHS "did not comply with federal regulations".
According to the IG’s office, the agency also provided award fees to the company as part of its contract. In calling for the investigation, Senator Clinton underscored that despite federal law requiring DHS to link award fees with successful acquisition outcomes, there have been a number of reports of DHS providing award fees regardless of performance.
“This disconnect between performance and award fees appears to be part of a troubling pattern,” said Senator Clinton. “In too many cases, DHS appears to be awarding bonuses without evaluating work or, even worse, despite poor performance. Failing contractors should be rooted out not rewarded.”
The following is Senator Clinton’s letter to DHS Inspector General Richard L. Skinner requesting an investigation:
November 26, 2007
Mr. Richard L. Skinner
Inspector General
United States Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528
Dear Mr. Skinner:
I write regarding a disturbing report you issued last month that raises serious questions about contracting practices at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The report – Customs and Border Protection Award and Oversight of Alaska Native Corporation Contract for Enforcement Equipment Maintenance and Field Operations Support (OIG-08-10) – details how DHS improperly awarded a $475 million, no-bid contract to Chenega Technology Services Corporation to maintain X-ray, radiation and other screening machines at U.S. border checkpoints. Your report concludes the contract “award likely did not provide the government the best value” and that DHS "did not comply with federal regulations."
Additionally, your staff informs me that award fees were given to Chenega as a part of its contract with DHS. Given that your report did not focus on award fees to Chenega, the details of these fees are unclear. However, taken together with your conclusion that the Department improperly awarded the underlying contract to Chenega, it is disturbing to hear that DHS has provided an award fee to this corporation.
This disconnect between performance and award fees appears to be part of a troubling pattern. The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) state clearly that cost-based award fee contracts are intended to motivate excellent contractor performance in areas such as quality, timeliness, technical ingenuity, and cost-effective management. Despite this guidance, during the course of the past several years there have been a number of reports documenting how award fees are being doled out by DHS to contractors regardless of performance:
• Evaluation of TSA’s contract for the installation and maintenance of explosive detection equipment at United States Airports (DHS Inspector General, September 2004) – TSA awarded a contract to Boeing for the installation and maintenance of explosive detection equipment at airports. TSA paid more than $44 million to Boeing without any evaluation of Boeing’s performance.
• Transportation Security Administration Review of the TSA Passenger and Baggage Screening Pilot Program (DHS Inspector General, September 2004) – TSA awarded four pilot program contracts to determine whether private companies could provide and maintain passenger screening performance at levels equal to or greater than the TSA screener force. The Inspector General found the award fee determinations lacked performance criteria, were highly subjective and based primarily on contractor self-assessments and input from TSA officials.
• Observations on the Department of Homeland Security’s Acquisition Organization and on the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program (GAO-07-453T) (February 8, 2007) – GAO found that despite documented problems in schedule, performance, cost control, and contract administration throughout the first year of the Deepwater contract, the contractor had received a rating of 87 percent, which fell in the “very good” range and resulted in an award fee of $4 million.
In too many cases, DHS appears to be awarding bonuses despite poor performance, or worse, without even evaluating work. Failing contractors should be rooted out, not rewarded. Given your report of what appears to be noncompliant federal contracting practices on the part of the DHS and a pattern of providing award fees to contractors without justification, I request that you expand your investigation into the practice of award fees by the Department, especially when it comes to no-bid contacts. Specifically, I would ask that your investigation review the following questions:
• Section 3501 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (P.L. 110-28) states, “The Secretary of Homeland Security shall require that all contracts of the Department of Homeland Security that provide award fees link such fees to successful acquisition outcomes (which outcomes shall be specified in terms of cost, schedule, and performance).” DHS has engaged in a number of contracts in Fiscal Year 2007. How many of these contracts included award fees and were these award fees based on successful acquisition outcomes? What was the total amount of these award fees?
• Did the Department of Homeland Security violate P.L. 110-28 in providing award fees to contractors Fiscal Year 2007?
• Were award fees given to Chenega Technology Services Corporation justified and based on successful acquisition outcomes?
• What mechanisms are currently in place at DHS to ensure that award fees are awarded in a proper manner? Are these mechanisms enforced in providing award fees for DHS contracts? What can the Department of Homeland Security do to ensure that award fees are justified and based on successful acquisition outcomes?
Thank you for attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Source: Senator Hillary Clinton
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