HUD on the radar (and other blips)

For all the rubbing, he isn't too bright.

The home and urban development Secretary Alphonso Jackson breaks out with this winner in a speech (!!)

After discussing the huge strides the agency has made in doing business with minority-owned companies, Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.

"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something ... he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'

"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect -- the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'

"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe."

Where does Bush get these guys?!? No wonder they hate government, if it is filled with people like them I want a government so small I can drown it in my bathtub too. What the hell was he thinking? Is D.C. really so insular and corrupt now that he feels like this would be considered normal? Not only is it not so smart in the first place, but he may have broken the law. Well, the Inspector General of the HUD is launching an ivestigation. Of course, now Jackson insists that he was just joking around, tee-hee, silly he, it never happened, it isn't true.

And just to keep up with the myriad of other alleged wrong-doings...

Noe intends to plead guilty to 3 federal charges of illegally funneling money into the Bush reelection campaign.

Apparently the whole Duke Cunningham thing is bigger than expected.

So many investigations, and the Democrats aren't even in control of any branches of the government!

One investigation did come to a stop however, the NSA wire-tapping probe. Looks like the NSA denied the DOJ super top secret passes and they have to shut down their probe. Who likes a probe anyway, sounds so invasive. I'll take an investigation anyday.