Just keep on cheating us, we love to be cheated

The Bush administration just loves it when Haliburton and it's friends and relations cheat us blind:

The White House has indicated it will not remove a loophole quietly inserted into a budget rule which allows contractors abroad to keep silent if they observe fraud or abuse on US government contracts.

The proposed rule, put forth by the White House Office of Management and Budget last year, exempts all companies who do work overseas from a new regulation requiring US contractors to report waste, fraud or abuse they encounter while doing work for the government.

Somehow, I picture a long hose running from the cheating contractors' directly into Dick Cheney's pocket. Of course, there's a large laundry somewhere along the way, but all the hoses come in from the Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater types and there's only one hose coming out of the laundry, direct to Cheney's pocket.