Michael O. Allen

Tag: Halliburton

  • A Recurring Nightmare

    The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is a perfect Republican Party trap: Watch as a Democratic administration and Congress drown in the oil disaster while they clean up at the polls. Then Republicans return to office and begin the cycle by laying the bombs that’ll detonate under the next Democratic administration. Does anyone remember Dick Cheney’s…

  • October surprise *

    Trey Ellis in HuffPo thinks we should be afraid, very afraid of what Republicans might have up their sleeves for October: We taxpayers already have shelled out $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since 2003. They have 180,000 employees in country now building what they had assumed would be permanent bases for a permanent occupation…