All the rage and outrage directed at AIG over the bonuses given to the very people who had a big hand in this financial meltdown has one interesting feature. It is shared by Dems and Republicans, libs and conservatives, alike. I find this curious, interesting, intriguing, and awfully convenient.
Convenient for Obama. Now he is proclaiming that he will do whatever he can to stop these bonuses, and Barney Frank is saying that if they can’t stop them, they will just take them away by taxing them at almost 100%. I don’t have any inside information about any of this. I’m purely speculating here. I have a suspicious mind sometimes.
Geithner and Larry Summers, Obama’s Treasury sec and economic advisor respectively, supposedly knew about these bonuses weeks ago. Sen. Chris Dodd, during the debates and discussions over the pseudo-stimulus bill last month, inserted a small amendment that provides for an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,” which I can only speculate as to whether he was for them before he was against them, or whether he was merely setting the stage for future outrage of the people that could be useful.
Is it remotely possible that this is all just drama, just one big play, to get all of us together for once, for our (conservatives) rage to be directed at someone other than the Obama administration? I kept having this thought and apparently I’m not the only one. I was happy to hear Mark Levin discussing this last night on his radio program, and Michele Malkin has written an excellent piece on the “Kabuki Theater” going on in Washington D.C. these days.
I’m not sure if this is all theater, or if our current policy-makers are just unbelievably incompetent bumbling fools.
Read the links below for more information about this staged (IMO) fiasco.
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Remember Rules for Radicals #13…….
#13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
I had to get up off the couch and write about this today too (though with not as much detail as your post), Pup…great minds thinking alike…again. We have to keep exposing the hypocrisy, while they try to “first rub raw the resentments of the people”–Saul’s rule #1. And the MSM just follows along like a puppy.
“I’m not sure if this is all theater, or if our current policy-makers are just unbelievably incompetent bumbling fools.”
I think the far left has been so pent up and restrained for so many years, that they are taking this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go all out. This may be their last chance.
They are shooting themselves in the foot and the American people will “hang them out to dry” very soon. I have been wondering why they are acting like there will not be another election, like there is no reckoning….I think their plan is to set up government so that they remain in power indefinitely. That’s the only answer I can think of for this kind of madness.
Kathy,
Bingo! I think you have hit the nail right on the head! A friend and I were discussing this shortly after the inauguration, that we hoped we would get to vote again for a president. Sounds far-fetched I know, but, not impossible. More likely, with finagling the census, using ACORN every election, and making millions more people dependent upon government, they won’t have to worry about staying in power.
They think. I hope that with God on our side good will win out. More than hope, I believe this. Have to.
Thanks for the great comments.
Eh, eh, eh, while the right hand was creating all the smoke and mirrors and hoopla about compensating those employees of AIG who were doing their job in a failing company, the left hand was printing out a trillion $$$ from the Fed yesterday to dump into our economy. I think we just “borrowed” from our debt, if I understand that correctly. Whoops, there’s goes the dollar!
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