Two more observations: 1. The REAL AIG scandal is the $93 billion they gave to Goldman Sachs and an unspecified number of European banks. That doesn't seem to begin to get anybody's panties in wad, yet the sum of money there makes the bonuses look like chump change.
2. This is similar to the manufactured outrage over Blagojevich's pay-to-play scheme. An analysis of how Obama got his campaign war chest, or why he can in the same speech praise AIG's president (an Obama supporter) and simultaneously paint the company as evil and greedy, would plainly reveal that Blagojevich's sin wasn't pay-to-play, is was gross sloppiness---the same sin they're trying to hoist on Geithner, now that Wunderbrain has proven he really can't single-handedly handle the banking system any better than he can handle TurboTax. - Bob > > http://tinyurl.com/cqh99h > > - - - > 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 > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
