Mommypundit

They know that, and this is why they throw out this red herring (bonuses) to distract the public from their crimes while they keep trying to buy your vote with your own money.
Bread and circuses, as has been aptly noted by previous commenters.

And looking like the “Keystone Kops”, as Kanjorski accurately describes the Bonus Baloney, will make that result even more likely.

It’s the Keystone Cops, Ed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops

I’m a little confused over Kanjorski’s thinly-veiled threat towards Edward Liddy. First, Liddy got brought into AIG by the government after the first bailout; he didn’t run AIG when it ran itself into the ground, and he’s just beginning to figure out what to fix, as Liddy himself explains in a WaPo column today.

You’re confused, Ed, because, good-hearted person that you are, you’re still expecting any of this crap to make sense. This government is Chaos–the opposite of order.

The Arugula King provides cover for Congress by “feigning outrage” over the AIG bonuses pointing the finger exclusively at Wall Street greed and the previous administration while Congress backs the Arugula King’s agenda as necessary to save the Republic.

If we don’t like the way the board runs the company, why don’t we replace them?

Because then Obama would become responsible for them. He could no longer stand around and call them “evil” whenever they did what he told them to do.

And that’s all that matters to him.

WTF?

These clowns on Capitol Hill are using Liddy as a whipping boy, so they can pretend outrage. That helps them take the eye off the fact that all those jerks signed a bill they never read!!!!!!

joedoe on March 18, 2009 at 2:00 PM

After this faux outrage, I would bet that not many exec’s would come out of retirement to help government.By the way, S___w barney franks.

I’m agreeing (in principle) with Kudlow? The world’s gone topsy turvy. Stop, I want to get off.

DeathToMediaHacks on March 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM

Scoot over Joan of Arc, we may have a couple more to join you. I hope.

Lincoln Cadillac on March 18, 2009 at 2:40 PM

I know the gutter and I know the stink of the street
For too long now I have pressed through this festering heat
All those beauties who towered above me
Those who gave me the smack of their rod
Soon now I will give them the gutter
I give you the judgment of God!

The world may be ugly, but each man must do what he must
Give in pretty dears, in a year you will be pretty dust
Now come let our lady possess you
In her breathtaking, hair-raising bed
She will tingle your spine
As she captures your heart and your head

the American electorate will resent the bailouts and clean house (and clean the House) in 2010

But with who?

Incidentally, has anybody asked Team Obama why it is more than willing to break mortgage contracts with a bankruptcy-judge cram-down, but won’t cram-down compensation agreements for AIG, despite the fact that the U.S. government owns the company? Kind of odd, don’t you think?
- Lawrence Kudlow

I’m agreeing (in principle) with Kudlow? The world’s gone topsy turvy. Stop, I want to get off.