Onward Corporate Soldiers.....
For some in Iraq, its going quite well. W. has made the world safe for Haliburton.

More Boeing
Winston misses the point on Boeing. The lease agreement is to Boeings COMMERCIAL business. Instead of going through their defense unit (Which by the way is financially sound.....) and selling us the tankers, they cooked up a scheme to get DOD to lease commercial planes from them at a ridiculous price.
None of Boeings defense contracts or the units that perform them will go under without this commercial business bail-out. Quit it with the false alarm bells.

Thank You, FOX
FRANKEN HITS #1 ON NYT LIST SEPT 7, 2003:
1 LIES (AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM), Franken
2 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Isaacson
3 KATE REMEMBERED, Berg
4 TREASON, Coulter
5 UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, Krakauer

No way Franken's book does this well or gets noticed by mainstream America without the ill-conceived suit brought by FOX. Nice job, Rupert.

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING NUMBERS
A reader points out that the media must think that John Kerry is as dumb as Arnold Schwarzenegger, because, like Arnold, he thinks that numbers aren't important for articulating policy. In explaining his energy plans last year, Kerry said that he didn't need to talk numbers because that would lead people to "focus on the numbers, not the concepts." I agree. Getting bogged down in minutiae usually causes inconsistent policy and bad law. See the forest, not the trees. And when Arnold complains about being taxed every time you take a breath in California, I think he has a good understanding of the big picture, and I hope it informs his approach to spending in Sacramento.

CALIFORNIA NUMBERS
Yes, regardless of what happens, Californians deserves what they get. During the dot com boom, California's tax revenues rode the waive of Silicon Valley's irrational enthusiasm, and the Democrats in Sacramento gorged themselves at that trough, funding their pet social projects, raising spending by a substantially higher percentage than their increase in revenue. Then, Gray Davis runs for reelection and substantially underestimates the budget deficit so the public want know the failure of the Sacramento Democrats. Yes, if Arnold Schwarzenegger is proven wrong and the people do, in fact, care about the numbers, they will still throw Davis out on his ass for lying about those numbers and tainting last year's election.

That's right ladies and gentlemen, on FederalReview.com, you get both sides -- unlike most blogs. From complaints about Bush's energy policy focusing on gas/oil/utilities (what should it focus on, pipe dreams like wind, solar and methanol "alternatives" that don't actually provide energy?) to demands that the Administration provide some leadership in Iraq, to the Democrat's hypocrisy regarding campaign finance "reform", we blog from both sides. Maybe this is fair and balanced^®*.

* FAIR & BALANCED is a registered trademark of Fox News Network, L.L.C., though we are using it in a legitimate way consistent with its meaning, unlike the boneheaded Al Franken who lost his ability to be funny long before Stuart Smalley.

NATIONAL SECURITY MEETS THE FREE MARKET
John complains about the bailout of Boeing, sounding like a free market, laissez faire libertarian. I'm no fan of corporate welfare, but I understand the importance of Boeing, not only to our national economy, but also to our national defense. Should we allow Boeing to go under, thereby sacrificing an important bidder for needed military equipment? I guess we could, and then we could rely on Europe's Airbus (and its employees) to fulfill Boeing's role producing the B-1, B-2, F/A-18, F-15, F/A-22. Sure, let's ship those jobs oversees. Or maybe we could let Lockheed do it at monopolty pricing.

Pro-Market vs. Pro-Business
The shameless Boeing bail out now looks as though it will cost even more than critics feared. This is another example of a GOP that works against the market it claims to favor so greatly. Market forces would not have the government bailing out Boeing's commercial business with an extra $5.7 Billion (that's with a "B", not an "M").

The market does not reward poor management and shoddy-to-illegal accounting. Apparently, however, the Bush administration (and the Washington St. delegation) want the US taxpayers to do just that.