OK, now this is too funny...

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.

Sheesh,
R

On Mar 17, 1:25*pm, wrote:
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.

Sheesh,
R

My surprise of the week was . . .
1. AIG paid most of the app $175 billion of our money to . . . banks
and funds, mostly foreign. Thank you Uncle Sap.
2. The unit that put together the "credit default swaps" that papered
over the risks of value change in the securitized debt instruments
that have caused the disaster at AIG is . . . British, based in
London. No wonder Obama was miffed at PM Brown's prancing hypocracy.

Dave
Renegade Capitalism must go.
Greed as a political agenda has failed.

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,

--
Kevin Vang
reply to kevin dot vang at minotstateu dot edu

DaveS wrote:
snip
Greed as a political agenda has failed.

LOL !! In American politics greed never fails, right now
it's just taking a little siesta. You oughta read David
Brooks in today's Times. He gets it right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/opinion/17brooks.html

--
Ken Fortenberry

Kevin Vang wrote:
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,

Oh, he will. Rick dearly loves ruffling liberal feathers and
as much as you shutting him down with the facts in mid-sheesh
has to hurt he'll shake it off like a real trooper. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

wrote in message
...
Chris Dodd.....

.....is, perhaps, one of the truest ****-weasels I've ever had the misfortune
of meeting. Stupid as a tree, to boot. Nothing would shock me about him in
terms of either poor judgement or lack of ethics.
Tom

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
as much as you shutting him down with the facts in mid-sheesh
has to hurt he'll shake it off like a real trooper. ;-)

although pretty clear in my opinion of Dodd, it is stunning the recent turn
of the desperate to just make stuff up. That MediaMatters thing was
priceless.....
Tom

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:26:54 GMT, "Tom Littleton" wrote:


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
.. .
as much as you shutting him down with the facts in mid-sheesh
has to hurt he'll shake it off like a real trooper. ;-)

although pretty clear in my opinion of Dodd, it is stunning the recent turn
of the desperate to just make stuff up. That MediaMatters thing was
priceless.....
Tom

And _perhaps_ misleading or just wrong itself. I have no idea what Rush or
Drudge reported (I did see a story on FoxBusiness, which, combined with
Schumer's "100% tax" shtick and Dodd's idiotic comments about taxing, etc. and
knowing his status as a _BIG_ AIG contrib recipient, caused me to post), but I
based my post upon what was already "semi-reported" in weeks past by various
sources, including the NYT. For a Google-searched example from today:

http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/D...-41404342.html

compared with, also today:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/17/dodd/

Depending on you wish to believe, it may not have actually been Dodd, but
rather, Timmy and Larry. If that's the case, it's even worse. IAC, this gets
convoluted, because TARP and "the stimulus" are different, and even the
amendment citing in the mediamatters piece only restricted bonus money during
the period covered by TARP.

Whatever happened, it deserves some real reporting...but as a actual journalist
noted just today (in a online conference), "most of the real journalists have
been laid off..."

TC,
R

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.

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