Posted on 03/21/2009 1:29:27 PM PDT by lt.america
Who would have thought 55 days into this administration we would be asking the question, what did he know and when did he know it? Word that a provision in the stimulus bill gave the green light for AIG to hand out bonuses using taxpayer money sent the media bloodhounds hot on the trail of whoever is the culprit. For a time, it looked like Senate Banking chairman Chris Dodd would take the fall, but after 24 hours of twisting in the wind, Dodd said the change that exempted past agreements to pay bonuses was made at the request of the administration.
President Obama likes to remind voters that he inherited a mess, and that's true, but this one is of his own making. And until he comes up with a satisfactory explanation of who did what when, and why, his credibility will suffer. Forty-eight hours ago, I didn't think Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was in trouble, but if the transaction with Dodd turns out to have Geithner's fingerprints on it, his job could be in jeopardy. The deadly chain of events may have started innocently enough, with Treasury Department lawyers raising questions about the government retroactively curtailing private-sector contracts, but did Dodd, who authored the restrictive language, capitulate to some Treasury flunky, or did someone more senior lean on him?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
He inherited it alright. From Democrats.
The country should wake up and arrive at the conviction that we are not going to let the Left take over.
I love the smell of failure in the morning...
If Eleanor Clift is piling on, he in big trouble.
Left eating it’s own. Excellent.
Everything was going good until the dems took over in 2006 then downhill all the way.
I think what Obama needs right now is a good, old fashioned military crisis. That would unite everyone behind him, put the AIG fiasco and all the other missteps in the past, and his handlers would make sure he looks like he’s got the Right Stuff. Watch for it....
Oh to hear the words ‘hit the wall’ as Rahm responded to this one. . .
(a.)a Liar with evil intent
(b.)a sub special olympics level retard
(c.) all of the above
choose one
I like it.
**The country should wake up and arrive at the conviction that we are not going to let the Left take over.**
Funny you should say this. I was thinking about donating to the Senate Committee.
**If Eleanor Clift is piling on, he in big trouble.**
Yes, LOL!
Like Clinton bombing Bosnia to distract away from Monica...
This really surprises me. Newsweak [sic] is a shadow of a “news magazine” in that it always falls toward the left. It really is odious; it shows up in my mailbox weekly owing to my support of our local Public Radio (classical music) station. It goes pretty much directly from the mailbox to the out box.
From Right Wing News )http://rightwingnews.com/#post14857):
“Some little boys denied taking the cookie; others, caught with their hands in the jar, insisted they were actually putting it back in. And got away with it. When the man from Hope, Arkansas showed us how that was done, we were impressed. The one who sits in our White House right now, though can change the subject around mouthfuls of cookie. You just stand there and think ‘damn, I can’t remember what I wanted to talk to him about, but what he’s talking about sure sounds important...wish I hadn’t bothered him while he was in the middle of eating something.’”
Cannot be stated often enough. . .but oddly, we are not often reminded.
That said; this blast from Newsweek may be the best news. Maybe there IS hope. . .
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