My Outrage Can Lick Your Outrage [UPDATED]
You think you’re outraged?
Ha! You’re just ruffled, miffed, perturbed compared to my outrage. What I got—now, that’s outrage!
Okay. We get it. Every politician in Washington wants to show They Care by bashing AIG. Which almost all of them agreed to bail out. Repeatedly. But never mind all that.
This, however, is just too much:
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley suggested on Monday that AIG executives should take a Japanese approach toward accepting responsibility for the collapse of the insurance giant by resigning or killing themselves.
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“I suggest, you know, obviously, maybe they ought to be removed. … But I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they’d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I’m sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.
Bob Owens points out that Sen. Grassley took $26,250 from AIG in 2007-2008 alone. Is he ready to take a deep bow, too?
As long as we’ve got the courtroom booked, may I suggest a few other defendants for these show trials? Geithner, Paulson, Bernanke? Any and all members of Congress or either Administration who felt there was no time to waste, and that we should spend first and ask questions later?
I’ve already observed that the outrageous money in question is an outrageous 0.097% of the overall bailout of AIG. If we expend all our outrage now, will there be any outrage left for our children when they grow up and see the outrageous debt their guileless, gullible parents left them?
UPDATE
D’oh! How could I have forgotten?
Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group bonus recipients so the government could recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit. Within hours, the idea spread to both houses of Congress, with lawmakers proposing an AIG bonus tax.
While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd unexpectedly added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,” which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax. The amendment is in the final version and is law.
Also, Sen. Dodd was AIG’s largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100, according to opensecrets.org.
My friends, no one loves this country more than your humble correspondent. But it’s time you cut New England loose and went on without us. Dodd, Kennedys, Kerry, Frank, Sanders, Leahy, Snowe, Collins—they’ll just slow you down. Maybe a house divided cannot stand—but a house with these lardasses weighing you down will collapse.
Martino said,
March 17, 2009 @ 10:13 am
I suggest that every member of Congress who voted for this insanity put the blade in his stomach, then go up and to the left.
Hare kiri, it’s not just for defeated Japanese officers any more.
Carol said,
March 17, 2009 @ 11:32 am
Good plan, Martino, but Dodd has to go first. Did no one notice that many of the recipients of the bonuses are outside the US? How does he propose to go about taxing non-citizens?
I just purely hate Congress - there’s just about no one there worth his weight in manure, and they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing. They never heard of the lesson in “Economics in One Lesson” and if they had, they are not possessed of sufficient imagination to actually picture second and third level effects of their noxious behavior.
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HeckSpawn said,
March 18, 2009 @ 10:47 am
Don’t forget, these are the same Dimocrats that just weeks after getting into leadership of Congress and the Senate, hauled the banking execs on the carpet and demanded to know what they were going to do to get more “poor” folks into their own homes.
Then they cut the oversight of Fannie and Freddie…
Oh, then we have a crisis that’s “just too good to waste”, and we wind up with a Dimocrat in the White House along with control of the Legislature.
And now we’re going to tax ourselves into prosperity…AGAIN!
Neesi said,
March 18, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
Why aren’t they complaining about the contracts with the Auto Union? How many are making higher wages than the rest of us, has health insurance and a pension? The union voted for Obama and Biden, they remain strangely quiet.