Hardball tactics backfire on Boeing

[La_Serpiente]

Hardball tactics backfire on Boeing

Fifteen months ago, the struggling Boeing Co.'s ambitious plan for a $17billion revenue boost was stuck deep in a Washington quagmire.

The aerospace giant wanted to lease to the Pentagon (news - web sites) 100 of its 767 airliners modified as aerial refueling tankers, and it had won over the Air Force and key members of Congress.

That's usually enough to seal a defense deal. But one person--a pencil-pushing former Capitol Hill staffer turned-pharmaceutical executive turned-White House accountant--didn't like Boeing's idea. Not one bit.

Mitch Daniels, then President Bush (news - web sites)'s budget director and now the Republican candidate for Indiana governor, thought the tanker deal violated government accounting rules.

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Hardball tactics backfire on Boeing

[gristy]

1. Exxxxxcelllllennnnt....

That is a NICE long article. But this paragraph is as far as I need to read for now:

Today, however, those hardball tactics have backfired. The lobbying campaign is the subject of criminal, congressional and Pentagon investigations

This tanker lease deal has been stinking to high heaven ever since I heard of it, and long before that in fact. I wrote a bunch of senators on this a long while back, including McCain, who has/had opposed it, I think.

And kudos to Mitch Daniels!!!! If I lived in Indiana, I'd have to take a serious look at voting for him!

[InkAddict]

2. Maybe not!

He who laughs last....12,600 jobs gone with the fallout being what?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=330766

[Jose Diablo]

3. Coke bros buy dirt cheap n/t

[Jose Diablo]

4. Kansas goes Democrat n/t

[GAspnes]

5. Boeing was going to outsource mfg. anyway

http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/48037.htm

This year marks the 30th anniversary of cooperation between Boeing and China. Boeing's partners in Shanghai, Shenyang and Chengdu can nowadays produce major plane parts.

"China's aviation transportation will grow at an average annualincrease of 9 percent in the next 20 years. We hope to enhance cooperation with China to achieve win-win success," said Fred Howard, president of Boeing China.

Surely you didn't think that Boeing was going to actually pass the illegal and exorbitant profits from this deal on to American workers?