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September 27, 2003
More about New Bridge Strategies, LLC
More details from Josh Marshall:
I should have known that a little digging into this Iraq contracting biz would bring me to uber-GOP-insider Haley Barbour. But I tend to be a touch naive about these things, as you can imagine.Barbour of course is former chair of the RNC, former chair of President Bush's campaign advisory committee in DC in 2000, and former just about everything else in the DC Republican party, as well being one of the priciest and most wired Republican lobbyists in town....
...when you look more closely at New Bridge, of which Allbaugh is Chairman and Director, you start to see that New Bridge looks an awful lot like an outgrowth of Barbour Griffith and Rogers.
For one thing, the Vice President and Director of New Bridge is Ed Rogers --- the same Ed Rogers who is Barbour's partner in Barbour Griffith and Rogers....
...Isn't it weird how that happens when you apply for a second job and all the dudes from your first job work at the new place too? Anyway.
Actually, you can see why it's so convenient to work at both of these two places since they both happen to be located on the 10th floor of 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Posted by Mike at September 27, 2003 11:28 AM
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New Bridge Strategies, LLC
the public good works in mysterious ways and this is just one of the many invisible hands at work.
Glad the market forces are busy filling the void as it seems to be getting voider and voider.
Check out http://scari.org/and_thee.html
And write Old Bridge Strategies to see where you fit in and what price you will pay. They are already crowding at the trough but with a team like Old Bridge you will be lead straight to the bucket of gold the pound of flesh is the cost of doing business.
Good Luck, Gus
Posted by: Gus O. Kahan at October 1, 2003 01:24 PM
"Keep you eye on the Ball"
http://scari.org/and_thee.html
We all should remember, we should. On the eve of Gulf War II during the Senate Hearing on war powers for the use of preemptive force. Joe Biden said again and again, "KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL." It was a simple request, keep your eye on the ball. But we, the public, watched as this, unfairly elected, administration double dribbled, clipped, barged at the mark and stepped out of bounds -- yes Joe Biden made a simple request of us and we let him down.
Now months later we are busy looking stupid. Bush looks dumb (as usual), Rumsfeld is talking of a slog and preemption engineered by Cheney and his supplicants have forced us to suffer babbling sycophantic platitudes and we, the willfully ignorant, allow the justice of Ashcroft to reign supreme while we send, get well, cards to Rush Limbaugh; the babbling talking head of heads. Meanwhile, like Dr. Henery Kissinger, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, the academic pragmatist, spins and spins a dervish credible to no one -- let her fall on here swords.
Why are we, the unwashed convinced we are in the final daze of Pax Amerika.
"Gee dad we saw the fall of Communism, what's next?"
"New Bridge Strategies, LLC my son that's where the smart money is."
W.E.T.
Posted by: Wendell Tately at October 27, 2003 02:45 AM
Man of Taste -- "When it comes to Perception Management, Ahmed Chalabi and Joe Allbaugh have the best of intensions for the future of Iraq."
Dick Cheney
The close friend of Dick Cheney has made over one of Saadam's Palaces as his own. Petit Pale Chalabi is lush with decor.
A man of sophisticated tastes, Ahmend Chalabi has brought in feng shui decorators from New York thanks to New Bridge Strategies, LLC.
Ahmed Chalabi, a Man of Taste and culture has the right balance of cultural refinement and business acumen to attract the confidence of the coalition's power brokers. After having the ear of Dick Cheney, Ahmed Chalabi has come some distance since his days of trotting around Washington with hat in hand. His vision for Iraq is coming to pass as we move from occupation to democratic independence. Ahmed Chalabi is the one central figure that has the confidence of both the Iraqi Expatriots and the Coalition. His ability with facts and their use are as malleable as George Bush; their respective uses of facts, an amalgam of theory and conjecture, has forged a new vision for the use of Iraq and its people. The Capitalist, free enterprise principle of financial dominance of all sectors resources is in accord with the Bush Administration's Ideal of Supply Side Wealth Formation.
Posted by: Stanley Goldburg at February 19, 2004 01:09 AM
Vulcans Unite under one Flag
When it comes to knuckle walking there are few so inspired
Fear of the other: The Xenophobic Usual Suspects, Neo-Cons use the uniting cry of hegemony for the sake of order; the same paranoid cry of the agents of The Office Of Special Plans. If Globalization is so compelling, why is our National Interest so pressient; one might think the marketplace of ideas would prevail to allow for a multitude of thought, a plethora of views.
http://scari.org/stuff_and_things.html
To Privatize War and let market forces (the invisible hand) determine where and when –– why and how is determined on a case by case basis: decided by O.S.P.
Accusation of Treason, is the most powerful tool in a skimpy kit of tricks. Tail gunner Joe McCarthy was a man before his time. The present cast of characters is the stuff of great theater; Neo-Cons as inmates, wearing tattoos behind bars, would not do well as correctional interdiction candidates; for these Hardened
Xenophobes the conviction of their rectitude drives their agenda –– their cast and lot seems preordained to behave as automatons programmed to repeat the same error message. A prolapsed anus may be the only cure.
Like quantum mechanics, the observer affects the outcome.
Game Theory and the Collective Subjective wags the dog.
http://scari.org/arnold_and_thee.html
warning
* In reality this image is a prolapsed anus that has been inverted to some dramatic effect. We hope you realize that xenophobic behavior can not be resolved by decapitation, however, xenophobia is not a phobia that concerns one who has experienced an anus prolapse. Anus prolapses affect homophobia similarly.
Posted by: Mickey O. Ganesh at March 13, 2004 01:20 PM
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