At one point, a senator sought advice from investor Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest men, according to Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.).
For nearly three hours in the afternoon, Conrad and other lawmakers met with Paulson around a massive table in Pelosi’s conference room under an ornate portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Among lawmakers, Democrats outnumbered Republicans nine to two, an imbalance that so irritated Paulson that he called and complained to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), according to three GOP sources familiar with the call.
Reid told Paulson he would not pull any of his colleagues out of the meeting. A Reid spokesman, Jim Manley, said: “If the secretary doesn’t like it, that’s just too bad, because he is going to need the help of each and every one of them to sell the president’s plan to the Democratic caucus and the American people.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092800064_2.html?hpid=topnews
Evil, rotten people.
With a Congress like this, who needs al Qaeda....
It’s unbelievable considering that Buffett now has the potential to profit enormously from the Feds buying all of the bad assets from the Goldman balance sheet...