[randog]

...Frank joked, arguing that the initial loans to AIG (totaling more than $173 billion) came from the Bush administration “without any Congressional input.”

Is he talking about TARP? If so, then I remember a lot of congressional input, especially since I called mine to stop that train wreck.

[mbraynard]

He’s actually incorrect. It was from the Fed, not the Treasury. The Fed is independent and can do whatever the hell it wants. Bush didn’t give them anything.