And now the Congress of the United States which allowed all this is grandstanding to beat the band. Are you kidding me? Had this Congress not changed the rules this would not have happened... The Congress did this... What's going on in Washington?
It was this Congress that said go ahead with your bonuses... and now they're up there putting on a show for us... They're distracting us.... Top of the list, Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee... protecting those corporate bonuses... He is closing in on a quarter million dollars in donations from AIG.... They [Congress] did not read the stimulus bill and they admitted they didn't read it, so shut up!... You know what the Fox News Channel oughta do? We should send them a bill for all the commercial breaks we've missed all day long because this thing is on!
(1) The actual figure is $103,000 NOT "closing in on a quarter million" and Dodd is returning it.
ReplyDelete(2) AIG's money was NOT part of the stimulus bill. The first part came from the Fed (under Bush) and the rest of it is part of TARP.
Oh how magnanimous of the Senator to give it back...Give me a break. He was Busted and his and all the other feigned outrage is an outrage.
ReplyDeletedon't you love how all of these little crooks give it back, after they are caught. don't you wish you could get a 'do over" for all of life's little fuck ups like the pol's get.
ReplyDeleteI am still waiting to see who the blame falls on for the addition of the AIG bonus clause. Lets see, Dodd denies, Obama denies, Treasury denies. I doubt that the News agencys will pursue this much further in an attempt to find out the truth. Most of us already have a good idea who it was.
ReplyDeleteHey let's put Chris Dodd on Jon Stewart's Show. I'll bet he likely could find out or make C. D. look like an asshole.
ReplyDeleteClassic Shep Rant.
ReplyDeleteI like Glenn Beck's little spiel about how this AIG thing is really just a distraction to keep us from noticing the other things that are going on. And he has a point. Much more money is being dumped elsewhere that should make us outraged. But of course, politicians are masters at using the media to direct (or redirect) the public's attention simply because not many in the public pay more attention to what's on the surface, meaning what the media pushing to the forefront.
This stuff gives me a headache.
Anon: Dodd's AIG 2008 contributions were $223,000 and change. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000581&cycle=2008
ReplyDeleteCitigroup has usurped Dodd's former #1 donor: Bear Stearns.
Amy, I think NOW the overstimulated media are now focusing in on the trillions we don't have that Obama's "spending."
We don't need those trillions. Not as long as we've got lots of paper and printing presses, and big vats of green ink over by the 14th street bridge. And not as long as we've got kids and grandkids to pick up the tab.
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