Pat Roberts was outraged following the Air Force's decision to award the largest military defense contract in history to a French company. He knows the bidding process unfairly favored Airbus over Boeing, costing Kansas 4,000 jobs.

Today he told us exactly what he's going to do to make sure this outrageous decision gets reversed:

There are several options, he said. But first, he said, "Let's let the system work."

Pretty weak coming from someone who just last week smugly claimed, he'd "be the pilot" on the Boeing issue. Well, Pat, your piloting skills are about to make us crash...again.

This consistent "do nothing" attitude is the reason we're in this mess. Pat should have spoken up for Kansas workers the day Sen. John McCain began meddling in the bidding process to make sure his buddies at Airbus would win the bid.

Roberts still won't acknowledge McCain's role in the fiasco, saying things like:

It was a "shoddy, if not shaded" procurement process

"I detect a very unpleasant smell of politics here."

The decision was "skewed in favor of one bidder, and that is wrong."

Nope, he alludes to McCain's dirty work but his loyalty to the Bush administration prevents him from calling it like it is.

And all he can muster for his home state is a plan to "let the system work."

Not surprising from a guy who's been out of Kansas for 40 years.