Comments on: Friday-night doc dump: Summers took millions from hedge funds, TARP recipients

By: History of the Barack Obama Official Friday Afternoon News Dump - barrypopik’s Diary - RedState

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:38:44 +0000

[...] When was it announced that Lawrence Summers, director of the President’s National Economic Council, earned millions from hedge funds and TARP recipients? April BOOFAND! [...]

By: I’m Outraged! Somebody Hand Me My Pitchfork! « Beltway Snark

I’m Outraged! Somebody Hand Me My Pitchfork! « Beltway Snark — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:47 +0000

[...] from working hedge funds and speaking fees. How else was the man supposed to make a living? The hypocrisy of having Summers around, especially after the AIG thing, is rather amusing though. Lawrence [...]

By: L.N. Smithee

L.N. Smithee — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:11:06 +0000

I think Summers would have made a much better choice than Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Unfortunately, Obama didn’t have the guts to face the flak over the silly controversy Summers inadvertently stoked at Harvard a few years back.

I don’t think Obama wanted Summers there because I don’t think Summers would have been Obama’s marionette. Getting over the hump of Summers’ overblown comments about females and their scientific acumen would have been forgotten by now if he was the selection and brought some competency to the table. Geithner, who has proved to be “Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius” with the constant explosions in his face, will NEVER live down being a tax cheat.

By: GeneSmith

GeneSmith — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:56:38 +0000

Larry’s ‘foibles’ don’t matter, like TurboTax Timmy’s blatant tax cheating. mr. 0gabe has told us that Larry is so smart that he’s The One to help set the economy onto its proper course. That course is 0bamist Marxism but Larry is desperately needed.

By: rhodeymark

rhodeymark — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:16:02 +0000

Ed, I’m so disappointed. At least AP would have known red meat when he saw it. I mean the raw stuff – still mooing. According to Drudge, the same disclosures revealed that new Deputy NatSec Director Tom Donilan sits on the steering committee of the Bilderbergs. I am now perusing images of the man to see if he has a propensity for holding his pinkie up to the corner of his mouth.

By: TN Mom

TN Mom — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:55:53 +0000

Cue the ACORN bus protestors.

All aboard?

By: TN Mom

TN Mom — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:54:34 +0000

It also makes a joke out of claims to “transparency”, but the Friday Night Disclosure has a long and bipartisan tradition. It’s not much Hope and Change, though, and Obama promised to stop doing business as usual during his campaign.

You can take the liar out of Chicago Politics, but you can’t take the Chicago Politics out of the liar….

By: Basilsbest

Basilsbest — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:32:20 +0000

Obama is the only person in the world who can separate Summers from pitchforks.

By: apco

apco — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:20:45 +0000

In keeping with the piano wired liberals, all that money should be confiscated by the goverment, Larry should lose his tax payer financed job and never allowed a goverment job again, and Obama should be impeached and sent back to Illinois. THESE PEOPLE ARE CORRUPT, BOYS AND GIRLS! And we have 4 more years of this crap!

By: platypus

platypus — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:18:16 +0000

Ed, when you say “Obama promised…”, doesn’t that make you throw up in your mouth a little?

SKYFOX on April 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM

No, actually it makes him do a full hurl. But somebody has to write it.

By: SKYFOX

SKYFOX — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:43:44 +0000

Ed, when you say “Obama promised…”, doesn’t that make you throw up in your mouth a little?

By: sven10077

sven10077 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:13:08 +0000

Otherwise…. we are screwed.

suzyk on April 4, 2009 at 8:04 PM

always keep rally points in mind and have an escape route planned…

when the leftbats figure out there is not enough wealth in the world to feed their vaunted desires they are kleptocrats for we’re gonna make the Soviets in the ’30s seem like humanitarians….

By: suzyk

suzyk — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:04:13 +0000

Ya know…. this is so wrong and out of hand that I’m beginning to be hopeful. Pelosi is trying to stick millions into the budget for her husband’s business deals because she knows she’s on her way out. Obama’s people know that he will never win re-election. People are going to be so fed up with what is going on here that if we get the right “conservative” elected, they will be able to say “okay, we need to get this mess cleaned up and we’re going to eliminate agencies, roll back regulations, cut taxes and restructure social security and medicare”.

Otherwise…. we are screwed.

By: sven10077

sven10077 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:48:25 +0000

Ed, as we both know, those promises both expired on Jan. 21, 2009. Obama is a hardball Chicago politician, and to expect anything else is folly. Unlike some on the right who drank his Kool-Aid, my predictions are coming to fruition. He is turning out exactly like I thought he would.

simkeith on April 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM

He has not let me down yet…I have assumed the worst and he has reached for it every time…

Crap’n'Trade will be next year.

By: Larry Summers Took Millions from Banks, Hedge Funds | The American Pundit

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:54:16 +0000

[...] could’ve been in Zimbabwe and would’ve seen that excuse coming. As Ed Morrissey says, “You know, the same argument could be made with, oh, AIG and the people they need to retain [...]

By: simkeith

simkeith — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:38:05 +0000

It also makes a joke out of claims to “transparency”, but the Friday Night Disclosure has a long and bipartisan tradition. It’s not much Hope and Change, though, and Obama promised to stop doing business as usual during his campaign.

Ed, as we both know, those promises both expired on Jan. 21, 2009. Obama is a hardball Chicago politician, and to expect anything else is folly. Unlike some on the right who drank his Kool-Aid, my predictions are coming to fruition. He is turning out exactly like I thought he would.

By: Johan Klaus

Johan Klaus — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:11:15 +0000

getalife on April 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM

After voting for Obama, are you angry because Obama’s recession has ruined your 401K?

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:58:11 +0000

Tell us again how you “support the troops”, kid. Oh, that’s right-you never did.

Tou’re dismissed.

Del Dolemonte on April 4, 2009 at 5:55 PM

Sorry, that should be “You’re dismissed.”

I had a momentary getalife brain seizure.

By: Del Dolemonte

Del Dolemonte — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:55:48 +0000

Stay out of my voting booth cons.

getalife on April 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM

Translation:

“I voted for Jean-Claude Kerri” -getalife

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

The Boston Fog, 2006

Tell us again how you “support the troops”, kid. Oh, that’s right-you never did.

Tou’re dismissed.

By: ddrintn

ddrintn — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:27:02 +0000

Stay out of my voting booth cons.

getalife on April 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM

Think of it as the blog’s card check. I thought most moonbats love the idea.

By: capejasmine

capejasmine — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:07:56 +0000

You folks really shouldn’t pick on getaclue, he will start to cry and go running to poptart and tell how mean you all are……

clinker46 on April 4, 2009 at 4:22 PM

ROFL!!!

By: capejasmine

capejasmine — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:06:07 +0000

It’s unfettered capitalism cons support.

Stay with your priciples and don’t be hypocrites.

getalife on April 4, 2009 at 2:19 PM

By simply using “cons” in your comments, and not bothering to research truth….you show your true color. It’s BLUE!!!

As of Septemer 2008….

5 Richest Members of Congress
Four out of the five richest members are Democrats
Posted September 26, 2008
1.Rep. Jane Harman (D, Calif.): $215.11 million
2.Sen. Herb Kohl (D, Wis.): $215.85 million
3.Sen. John Kerry (D, Mass.): $213.8 million
4.Rep. Darrell Issa (R, Calif.): $158.58 million
5.Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, W.Va.): $79.4 million

http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/09/26/5-richest-members-of-congress.html

Now what was it you wanted to say about Republicans, being capitalists? They’re all rich. You don’t get where they are, by living by the principles, you espouse. What they say, and how they live, are to vastly different things.

By: CK MacLeod

CK MacLeod — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:50:13 +0000

This one, from the same document dump?, was just as good:

Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, disclosed earnings of between $1 million and $5 million from lobbying firm Downey McGrath Group, Inc., where her husband, Thomas Downey, is a principal. She states $450,000 in “member distribution” income, plus retirement and other benefits from The Albright Group, a lobbying firm whose principals include former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879462053487927.html

How familiarly green of her. Learned a lot from Al Gore, that one.

By: afotia

afotia — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:33:05 +0000

For those of you who would like to comment on the MSNBC creep…..

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/fire-keith-olbermann

By: clinker46

clinker46 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:22:02 +0000

You folks really shouldn’t pick on getaclue, he will start to cry and go running to poptart and tell how mean you all are……