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May 18, 2011
Rep. Allen West Smacks Down Obama Bureaucrat During Hearing On Obama's Politicizing Procurement Process
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn a nutshell ... the Obama administration's executive order would create conditions for a political pay-to-play government contracting process, stifling political speech and creating an entirely new enforcement bureaucracy. And yet Obama's bureaucrat never actually responds to Rep. West's questions. So much for 'transparency'!
Rep. Allen West (R - Fl) questioned high ranking Obama administration official Daniel Gordon during a hearing on the administration's highly controversial executive order that would require companies with government contracts to disclose their political donations (in other words, trying to slip in his own version of the Disclose Act via executive order ... an order that Rep. Darrell Issa called "injecting Chicago Hardball Politics" into the procurement process). Gordon danced around the questions like a cat on a hot tin roof, but Rep. West refused to back off until he got his answer, eventually getting to the point of asking Gordon why he was even at the hearing:
What does Gordon's oft-repeated "I'm not in a position to comment ... etc." mean other than either the answer exposes the Obama administration's intention to politicize the procurement process or the answer to the question will embarrass the administration and it isn't allowing Gordon to speak on it? The answer is more likely than not - both of these possibilities!
Notice that although Gordon insists that contract officers would "never" actually use that information in weighing the awarding of contracts, he never justifies his ridiculous assertion ... it's as though we're just supposed to 'trust' the Obama administration to 'do the right thing', right? We're all suppose to just trust the single most corrupt and politicized administration - ever.
Hat tip to 'Stable Hand' at Jawa Report, who points out that Gordon's "The public may want to know" is word-speak for anti-war liberals, and/or all liberals in general.
Posted by Hyscience at May 18, 2011 6:42 AM
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