GOP Bludgeons Dems With AIG Hypocrisy
Posted by Bill Dupray
on Mar 19 2009 Filed under Politics.
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It’s on.
From Jake Tapper, first we have the two sticks with which the beating will be administered.
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was recently quoted in the New York Times saying that as angry President Obama is about AIG, “his main priority is getting the financial system stabilized, and he believes this is a big distraction in that effort.”
In today’s Washington Post, senior adviser David Axelrod is quoted saying, “People are not sitting around their kitchen tables thinking about AIG. They are thinking about their own jobs.” The Post described “the bonuses were a distraction from what senior aides called the main focus: getting the economy working and people back to work.”
The Republicans then strolled over to Louisiana Democrat Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s office, kicked in the door, and let her have it.
In an email, the National Republican Senatorial Committee tries to tie Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., up for reelection in 2010, to Axelrod’s and Emanuel’s comments and claims that by supporting the stimulus bill Lincoln was voting to allow “AIG to distribute huge bonuses with taxpayer dollars.”
“Does Senator Lincoln – who has railed against AIG’s handing out taxpayer-funded bonuses as ‘outrageous’ – agree with the Obama White House that the voters in Arkansas who have lost their jobs and their homes ‘are not sitting around their kitchen tables thinking about AIG?’” asked NRSC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson. “After her constituents’ hard-earned dollars were used to pay for these lavish executive bonuses, how can Blanche Lincoln agree with the White House’s assessment that people do not care?”
And when you have all the Democrats voting for this particular crap sandwich, there is no escape. It is not partisan spin to say the stimulus explicitly allowed the AIG bonuses to be paid. It is not partisan spin to say the Democrats rammed the bill through. And it is not partisan spin to say Lincoln and her cohorts are directly responsible for this debacle.
This is a well-earned beating.
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Bill,
Like most American’s I am angry about the AIG bonuses, but why isn’t anyone angry about the congressional “bonuses” that are awarded each year in the form of automatic pay increases? Congress is now paid $175,000 a year, and for WHAT? Good Americans are losing their jobs, while Reid, Dodd, Pelosi, Frank, etal, who are largely responsible for the financial mess we are in, still get their “bonuses”!
(Not to mention lifetime health care benefits, pensions, etc.)
And, might I add that now the congress has chosen to levy a 90% tax on these bonuses, I think we should tax the huge dollars that went to the politicians who recieved HUGE sums of money from the very company they are now berating.
Again, if these guys had simply read that crap sandwich stimulus bill, this would have been seen earlier. This administration and his minions are a worldwide JOKE!