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Old March 18th, 2009, 01:56 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:59:01 -0500, Kevin Vang wrote:

In article ,
says...
Chris Dodd, who was among the first to call for taxing the bonuses received by
AIG execs, has been joined by Chucky Schumer, who suggests a 100% tax. Now it
is (widely/publicly) revealed that Dodd (who, as an aside, was the largest
recipient of AIG contributions in 2008, with something a little over 100K US)
added an amendment to the 787 stimulus that specifically exempted bonuses paid
before the February signing of that mess, and Chucky supported it.



http://mediamatters.org/items/200903170026?f=h_latest

Try again,


You might wish to take your own advice - apparently, Dodd (and now Geithner and
Summers) aren't out of the woods on this yet. There seems to be no doubt that
_something_, um, "odd" went on, just what it is remains to be revealed.

TC,
R
....and for the record, nothing I've heard yet seems to implicate Obama in any of
this, for better or worse.