The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread - Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The EIB Network ^ | 03/17/09 | Rush Limbaugh

[Timeout]

I spit my coffee out yesterday when Obama coughed and Rush quietly said: “The teleprompter just told him to cough”.

LOL!

[Current Occupant]

I don’t get it Rush, I doubt many people are upset with the bonuses, they’re pissed about the bailouts to begin with. What a distraction. While we’re looking here O takes guns out of planes, nobody notices. I know you get it Rush but shine the light where it belongs.

[TornadoAlley3]

Bwany Fwank will hold pwess confwence in about 10 mwinutes per CNBC....about AIG.

[Dr.Deth]

The guy with the Vlad Dracula accent is hilarious.

[hattend]

God, nothing would please me more than to have every incumbent in the House lose their race next year.

Grassley, just STFU

[TornadoAlley3]

[RasterMaster]

[RasterMaster]

That reminds me of...

[TornadoAlley3]

[Danae]

LMAO!

[Tamar1973]

I demand that congress raises be rescinded..... Members of Congress Due to Award Themselves $4,700 Raise in 2009

Amen! If the rest of us have to put up with wage freezes, etc. so should they since they directly caused this mess.

[TornadoAlley3]

A senior U.S. senator on Tuesday warned American International Group Inc. employees to return bonuses they are receiving or face being slapped with a major tax on those payments.
“They should voluntarily return them (the bonuses). If they don't we plan to tax virtually all of it,” Senator Charles Schumer, a member of the Democratic leadership, said in a speech on the Senate floor.

Schumer noted that AIG lost nearly $100 billion last year and is now being propped up by U.S. taxpayer funds. Providing performance bonuses to employees “Defines Alice in wonderland business practices ... it boggles the mind.”

[listenhillary]

[TornadoAlley3]

LOL!

[TornadoAlley3]

McConnell: AIG Bonuses ‘appalling’
from the Office of Senator Mitch McConnell

Monday, March 16, 2009

‘Going forward, the American people need to have complete certainty that taxpayer money is not wasted in this way again’

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Monday regarding AIG:

“Many of us were outraged over the weekend to learn that AIG, which has already received nearly $175 billion from the American taxpayer, is planning to hand out $165 million in bonuses to its employees. This is appalling — and it’s particularly disturbing given the fact that I sent a letter to Secretary Paulson more than five months ago insisting that if taxpayers were going to help private businesses, then the Treasury would need to use its ‘full enforcement powers to prevent any misuse of taxpayer funds.’

“It is my hope that the Administration gets the message from the taxpayers on this issue. Going forward, the American people need to have complete certainty that taxpayer money is not wasted in this way again. It’s my hope that the Administration will continue to press AIG on these bonuses, and that it will pursue any and all lawful means of recovering these payments to the very people who were responsible for getting us into this mess.”

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[Enterprise]

That was the late Tom Lantos.

" CALIFORNIA Democrat Tom Lantos announced Wednesday that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term to concentrate on the newest battle of his courageous career: fighting cancer. We received this news with sadness, yet we know that if anyone can go one on one with cancer and win, it is Lantos.

Few members of Congress have been as passionately pro-American as the remarkable Tom Lantos. At age 16 he fled the Nazis, twice escaping labor camps after the invasion of his native Budapest. After teaching economics for 30 years at San Francisco State University, in 1980 he decided to run for Congress against an incumbent Republican so formidable that no other Democrat would take him on.

Tom Lantos

[Danae]

lol I did too! lol

[Tamar1973]

Dancing Queen, Winter Sonata

For those who want to wash the image of Barney Frank out of their mind.

[TornadoAlley3]

Cuomo has AIG bonus data in letter he has given to Bwany Fwank....(Fwank speaking now live on CNBC)top 22 AIG employees got at least 2 mil each, 11 who got bonuses no longer work there...per CNBC screen. Fwank says we are the owner of the company and we should exercise our right as owner of the company and say no, we am not paying you those bonuses....Fwank says it is time to assert our ownership rights over AIG.

[PogySailor]

Schumer is a member of the Congress that has put us at least $10 Trillion in the hole (at least whats on the books). Talk about a hypocrite.