Posted on 03/17/2009 11:12:37 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama, Dodd Outraged at AIG Campaign Cash by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · No Comments
(2009-03-17) — As the furor over AIG executive bonuses threatened to bring the current economic recovery to a halt, President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd today threw fuel on the fire, announcing their “fierce outrage” upon hearing that the insurance giant had given each of their campaigns more than $100,000 last year.
“While AIG was collapsing, and her executives crawling to DC with hat in hand,” said Sen. Dodd, D-CT, “my campaign, and then-Senator Obama’s were getting what can only be termed influence bonuses from the same firm. Naturally, I knew nothing about this, and I’m now seething with anger at the injustice.”
President Obama and Sen. Dodd were the two largest recipients of campaign contributions from the beleaguered company, and the only politicians to garner six-figure amounts from AIG in 2008 — $103,100 for Sen. Dodd and $100,332 for presidential candidate Obama.
AIG, which has received $170 billion in taxpayer cash from the federal government since September, gave more than $585,000 to Congressional and presidential candidates last year, favoring Democrats 3-to-1 over Republicans.
In unrelated news, Sen. Dodd proposed legislation requiring AIG political gifts to be returned to the U.S. Treasury, “exempting only those campaign contributions made before November 4, 2008.”
The senator’s office immediately issued a statement declaring that Sen. Dodd was not aware that he had proposed such the exemption.
Dodd has some gall to be throwing around outrage over people milking it.
satire
It’s getter harder and harder to distinguish truth from satire with the clown posse in DC.
LOL, I actually fell for it! I was thinking that they were covering their Arses trying to pretend they didn’t know.
When a route sales person, I learned you can ACT MAD, and I got good at putting on a good act of being mad....to get what I want. Yeah...WHY DOESN’T DODD AND OBAMA give back the money they took from them during their campaigns..HUH?
exactly, wouldnt surprise me if it was true.
Scott Ott nails it!
Cute. Rush is on this too.
They're all harrumphing like the useless sycophants to Gov. LePetomaine in "Blazing Saddles".
'spose aneurysm is just wishful thinking..
Maybe our President should go back and read the Bill he just signed.
How he is escaping scrutiny and responsibility for this most recent "OUTRAGE" [Bonuses to AIG execs] is beyond me since it is HIS AMENDMENT that allowed for and enshrined into LAW these AIG exec contractual payments.
Oh and BHO too is escaping blame, even though it is HE who signed the AIG BAILOUT BILL into law!!!
Say it isn't so! /s
It’s so believable....
Maybe a “waitress sandwich” will cheer Dodd up....Google the term if you’re not familiar with it.
Biden could take him to his favorite diner in Wilmington he’s a regular at(that’s been closed for 20 years)
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