Posted by
Bob Wood aka TrekTek on Friday, March 20, 2009 8:35:04 PM
I am overwhelmed daily by the evidence that we are being governed by "The Gang That Can't Shoot Straight!" I just keep waiting to see what they are going to do next.
Let me see if I can make some sense of this weeks events...
Congress passes the $787 Billion Bailout-Pork Bill without anyone having a chance to read it (The bill was entered in Congress on Thursday night at 11:00pm and voted on Friday at 4:00pm.) Only the Democrats and the Three RINOs voted for it.
Christopher Dodd, D-CT, Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, added language to the bill to guarantee the "bonuses" to AIG at the request of TurboTax Geithner. This language was called "The Dodd Amendment." Then Dodd denies any knowledge of "who" put this language in the bill.
Democrats call the AIG CEO - a retired Allstate CEO whom they hired at $1.00 per year to straighten out the "mess" at AIG - and skewered HIM in front of a national TV audience for "allowing" the bonuses to be paid. That was Wednesday.
On Thursday, we find out that not only are Dodd's fingerprints all over this scandal, but so are Treasury Secretary Timothy "TurboTax" Geithner's. Dodd and Geithner admit their involvement.
And today, the House makes it "illegal" for the recipients to keep the bonuses that they were paid under the law and their employment contracts. Democrats and some Republicans passed a bill to tax those bonuses at 90%. So much for equal protection under the law!
And PrezBO finds time to tape Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" on the opposite coast. Does he realize that he can stop campaigning? He won, already! (I think I would have flown to Hawaii and skipped the taping.) Probably a very good idea to get as far out of town as possible.
And on his way to the taping, the Campaigner-in-Chief has time to spend on ESPN picking his Final Four "Barackets" and stops somewhere to tell us how disappointed we all are that AIG screwed up?
AIG screwed up? It looks like all of Washington, DC screwed up. And we are the ones who must hold these morons accountable.
I heard on the radio this week that Our Saviour was a carpenter, but this "saviour" can't even make a Cabinet!
As always, your comments are welcome...