Watching Barney Frank today morph into McCarthy in demanding the names of the employees of AIG who got the bonuses, under threat of subpoena, even after the Obama-supporter-CEO of AIG expressed concerns about the safety of the individuals, was another blood-pressure-inflating experience.
These idiots are going to so overreach it's not funny. What am I talking about---"going to"?! They are a clear and present danger to the Republic because they think EVERYTHING is their business, and the size of their majority is such that they can with impunity go after private citizens with ex post facto legislation by whipping up fake media-fed scandals like this one ... feeding on a crisis to grab enormous swaths of power heretofore withheld from them by due process and Constitutional safeguards. Now with the Mensheviks under McCain chiming in like a kind of "Lite" version of the same thing, there is nothing to protect the people anymore. I cannot believe I'm watching this happen in the United States of America. - Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Michael Madigan > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:16 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: RE: [OT] Oh, now I get it > > > What about the $101,000.00 that Obama took from AIG in campaign > contributions? > > WHY DOESN'T OBAMA GIVE BACK THAT MONEY? > > > > ************************************************* > I'm Surviving The Obama Depression > > http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6535062 > > > --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Bob Calco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Bob Calco <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: [OT] Oh, now I get it > > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 11:42 AM > > 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.
