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,

From what I've seen and heard in the last 12-18 hours, several "mainstream" news
orgs, like ABC and CNN, are reporting that Dodd...well, here's a couple of
links:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/...uses.congress/

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...adminis-1.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/200...ngress-pr.html

And a wag might observe that Timmy might should read a paper or two:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009031500422

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111304446.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012903999.html

(Granted, it's just the Washington Post, but you'd think a guy like Geithner
might have at least HEARD of it...)

Maybe he could have at least glanced at the public filings of AIG with the
SEC...


TC,
R