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- - - If not distancing itself from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the White House is placing firmly on his shoulders responsibility for how the government handled the $165 million in bonuses paid to about 400 executives and traders at American International Group Inc. "Secretary Geithner last week engaged with the CEO of AIG to communicate what we thought were outrageous and unacceptable bonuses," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Then he volunteered the answer to a question being asked all over Washington: Did Geithner still enjoy President Barack Obama's confidence, given the whopping bonuses the failed insurance giant paid Friday after receiving taxpayer bailout money? "The president has complete confidence" in Geithner, Gibbs said. - - - Trying to understand what all the manufactured hubbub was over the AIG bonuses was REALLY about, I could make no sense of it until I read this article. Plainly, it's time to throw tax cheat Geithner under the bus, thereby erasing one of Obama's more embarrassing mistakes, and this is their (pathetic) excuse to do it. The real culprit here is Dodd, whose amendment made what AIG perfectly legal and legit. But no, they're going to blame Geithner, as if he has any goddamn clue whatsoever where all the easter eggs are that Congress put in these asinine bailout bills to begin with. Even they barely know what they did, as this AIG scandal proves. Listening to Schumer yesterday on the floor of the Senate promise to make a law specifically to tax the bonus recipients literally made me ill. What the hell is happening to our once great nation, when a creepy ass-snarfing jerk like Schumer has this kind of power? But when McCain and Grassley chimed in with similar (Stalinist) thoughts, I finally lost my meal. The RNC called me yesterday to get me to renew my membership and I told them foggetaboutit. There is no freaking way I'm supporting what is effectively becoming a Menshevik party to Obama's Bolsheviks. What's going on is wrong on so many levels it defies description. There will be a reaction, I just hope the country can survive it. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
