Your tax dollars at work

It's surprising to me that none of the no-tax wingnuts who want accountability for government spending are speaking out against the demotion of Bunny Greenhouse, simply for doing her job:

Congressional Democrats demanded an investigation today into the demotion of a senior U.S. military contracting official who publicly criticized a controversial no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton Corp. for work in Iraq.

With more than 20 years experience in government procurement, Bunnatine Greenhouse had been the Army Corps of Engineers' top contracting officer until she was demoted to a lower-level staff position Saturday. The military says she was demoted for poor job performance.

Greenhouse had repeatedly challenged the Army Corps' commanding officers on their decision in 2003 to give a contract worth up to $7 billion to repair oil infrastructure to Halliburton, the Houston-based oil services company once run by Vice President Dick Cheney.

""They went after her to destroy her," said Michael Kohn, her attorney, who added that the demotion was "absolutely" retaliation for her complaints about the Halliburton contract.

Democrats, who had invited Greenhouse to testify about her concerns at a June hearing, asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in a letter today to reinstate her pending an investigation.

At that June hearing, Greenhouse called the Halliburton case "the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career."

The Army secretary approved the Army Corps' decision to demote Greenhouse three weeks later.

This woman is trying to save taxpayers money by shutting off the spigot of money to Bushcheney Administration friends and cronies. This is OUR money she's trying to ensure is used wisely -- wingnut money as well as progressive money. And for doing her job, she's been demoted -- because she dared question the funnelling of billions of taxpayer dollars into Dick Cheney's pocket without any accountability.

One would think that the wingnuts would be singing her praises, but of course since she dares question Jesus H. Bush, she's anathema to them.