Quite frankly part of me is loving this after seeing the flat out bigotry shown by Seattle area politicians and residents towards NASCAR fans and drivers when they were looking at building a track in the area. I was offended by the snoby, ignorant attitude they had over it.
As I said before I think they need to see if the lower bid really provides a net cost savings seeing as how part of the jobs will be moved overseas.
All that being said I will now demonstrat the hypocrocy of the left using the story you linked to Zman.
"McCain said he is keeping an open mind on the contract, but in the past he has boasted about his role in blocking an earlier version of the tanker deal that gave the contract to Boeing. The deal was killed in 2004 after a former Boeing executive improperly recruited an Air Force official while she was still overseeing contracts involving prospective Boeing deals. The former Air Force official, Darleen Druyun, and a top Boeing executive both served time in prison, and the scandal led to the departure of Boeing's chief executive and several top Air Force officials.
McCain has run ads touting his role in fighting "pork" such as the tanker project and cited the deal in a recent GOP debate.
"I saved the taxpayers $6 billion in a bogus tanker deal," he said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., echoing the thoughts of many congressional Democrats, sees McCain's role in a less positive light. She said the earlier tanker deal was "on course for Boeing" before McCain started railing against it.
"I mean, the thought was that it would be a domestic supplier for it," Pelosi told reporters. "Senator McCain intervened, and now we have a situation where the contract may be — this work may be outsourced."
"Keith Ashdown, with the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, said Boeing executives who broke the law were to blame for the demise of the tanker contract — not McCain.
"This was theirs from day one," he said. "This idea that any lawmaker is to blame is a joke." "
I thought the Democrat party was going to clean up corruption in Washington DC? Now they are whining because Boeing couldn't win a fair bid process.
Odd how you didn't paste in the reason why the earlier deal was nixed Zman. I wasn't really aware of all the details of that deal. Makes me a little proud of the money I contributed to McCain now.