And yet Frank is now claiming to be ignorant to all this hoopla? Get real! It was years and years of wasted money (Bush included) and now we are seeing more spending (in fact more than even dumba** Bush did in a total of 8 years) bailing out flailing companies and no one in the house or senate really seems to have any long term grasp of what the future will hold to pay off all this monumental debt. And they continue to provide no strings attached “loans” to these companies…almost 2 months after we got GWB out.

The uproar os over BONUSES, not SALARIES. This is a spin of FACTS to make it look like hypocrisy when in fact there is none to be found in this particular instance.

I feel they need to cap BONUSES for bailed out companies but in now way should our government tell us how little or much we can make in a salary.

If this is the case, I say cap all congress and senate members and ask them all to take a reduction in pay during these tough economic times.

Anyways, nice spin on the facts there Think Progress. It’s bloggers and people like yourselves, that have driven this country apart with this he said she said attitude.

Good luck with that!

“Same politics, different party”

Bilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
The only thing that Chris Dodd did was not make his amendment regarding bonuses retroactive. Probably because that wouldn’t pass muster as being something like…legal.

What? The amendment protects bonuses contracted before a certain date. It is entirely retroactive, this being the only sense in which it exists.

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“The prohibition required under clause (i) shall not be construed to

prohibit any bonus payment

required to be paid pursuant to a written employment contract executed on or before February 11, 2009”
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So try as you might, you can’t pin this on Obama or even Dodd.

Clearly you’re either entirely ignorant of what you are talking about or a liar.

How many more articles about is TP going to write about “paying back these bonuses” while never once acknowledging this?

What are you taking Glenn Beck’s lead on standards of honesty in journalism?

I’ll get back to you after I’ve cleaned the guns.

What we do know for sure is Bush screwed us and the economy.
But he’s hot on the spin trail trying to revise history.

dbadass Says:

and all other the freaking place? What the f uck is wrong with these people?

just about everything.

Why else would someone imitate a troll?

Chris Dodd added in the loophole allowing the bonuses to be paid. and you all thought it was Bushes fault….go figure. thanks you
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Chris Dodd added in the loophole allowing the bonuses to be paid. and you all thought it was Bushes fault….go figure
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Dodd tried to put in an amendment to LIMIT bonuses. My GOD you are an ignorant brainwashed moron. So which of the screechmonkeys that do your thinking for you programmed you with THAT one? It is basically a LIE. Go figure.

It is ridiculous to put AIG into bankruptcy. Since we own 80% already, Obama needs to take it over and then break it up. And something needs to be done soon because it looks like their (supposedly healthy) insurance side of their business may just be in trouble too:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189917

The only thing that Chris Dodd did was not make his amendment regarding bonuses retroactive. Probably because that wouldn’t pass muster as being something like…legal.

You seem to be forgetting that it was Bush/Paulson who made the deal with AIG and didn’t put any restrictions on bonuses. That was the only time it would have been legal to do so, and they chose not to.

So try as you might, you can’t pin this on Obama or even Dodd.

It’s too much of a stretch to give an imbecile credit for the catastrophic implosion of a phenomenally corrupt situation.