Posted on 03/18/2009 5:48:56 AM PDT by kellynla
ALL the world's a stage, wrote Shakespeare, and in the world of Washington, the curtains have opened on the most elaborate farce of the year.
Welcome, taxpayers, to the Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage - where DC's histrionic enablers of taxpayer-funded corporate bailouts compete for Best Performance of Hypocritical Indignation.
Over the weekend, cloaked in their finest populist costumes, the Beltway's hair-sprayed and powdered politicians and White House aides took to the airwaves to inveigh against $165 million in employee-retention payments made by the government-backed insurance giant.
The checks were mailed Friday, but the March 15 bonus deadline had been on the Capitol Hill radar screen since December.
But it wasn't until last week that the hapless court jester of the Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, scrambled to rein in the payments.
AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy basically told him to buzz off.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
She's not afraid to meet an issue head on and tell the story and a solution like it should be told.
I wish we had more journalist like her.
“did he even READ the deal we made with AIG”?
...nobody read ANY deals, bills or documents.
The Demobats voted these bafoons in; let them go broke with them as well. When there is zero money to support their government programs, let them deal with it. Personally, I can live on very little and will choose to make very little to be taxed on. Have a great day leaches.
“In February of 2008, 5 executives of AIG were convicted of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, based on AIG’s reinsurance deals.”
They should quit crying about the bonuses and start worrying about the bailouts. You know....The Reward Failure Act.
Geithner CHEATED on his taxes, he didn’t make a mistake. Then he lied about it, now people should wonder if he is lying about when he knew about bonusgate. This is why the Taxcheat should never have been confirmed.
Michelle is right on target. All one has to do is look at the hypocrisy of the RATS; Franklin Raines & Jamie Gorelick reaped millions and millions out of Freddie & Fannie.
She is a journalist. Most of the others are just anti-American propagandists.
“Franklin Raines & Jamie Gorelick reaped millions and millions out of Freddie & Fannie.”
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Yep!
They stole over $130M just between the TWO of them.
THIS IS THE BOMBSHELL THAT WILL HIT THE MSM IF THEY DON'T REPORT IT. Imagine if Senator John McCain had put in that Teeny Tiny Amendment. THEY WOULD CRUXIFY HIM
Don’t forget Chris Dodd, he’s up to his neck in this mess too. He should resign along with “Turbo Tax Tim”.
not interested in pix of married women...thank you..
Dods is trying to claim someone changed his amendment without him knowing it. What a loser!
Another article on FR this morning - from Salon - documents a case where Dodd is being made a fall-guy by Obama
...in fact Dodd attempted to retroactively curb thses bonus payments, and it was the White House that came back and insisted that the language be changed to allow payment of bonuses already commited too...
The Federal Government is laundering money via ‘stimulus package’.
Only one from AIG.
TY MICHELLE!
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