The Grievance Committee - LOL

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Angry. So very, very angry. Unable to speak due to mega-anger washing over every pore and fiber of my being. Anger is in. (Hope’s so ... January.)

I am extremely angry at Tim Geithner for being such a baby that he couldn’t scare a bunch of American International Group quants into forgoing their bonuses. We need a Treasury secretary so terrifying that if you were stuck in an elevator alone with him, you would just automatically hand over your wallet and credit cards.

Somebody as weird and tirade-prone as Hank Paulson. Although when he had Geithner’s job we hated Hank Paulson. Hated, hated, hated. Many people thought he was the worst Treasury secretary ever, although at this moment I am hard pressed to remember the name of any of the other ones since Alexander Hamilton. Except for Robert Rubin, who we used to like but now we don’t because he was a banker.

Hate those bankers. However, Jimmy Stewart seemed nice in that movie about Christmas.
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On Wednesday, Edward Liddy, the head of A.I.G., was hauled in front of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises where everybody was extremely eager to express their outrage about the $165 million in bonuses for employees in A.I.G.’s financial (Credit Swaps Derivatives R Us) products division.

This is the same subcommittee that came to our attention a year ago when then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York wheedled an invitation to testify about bond insurance so he could go to Washington for a night of hanky-panky at the Mayflower Hotel. I really hate the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

Liddy, a retired insurance executive who took over A.I.G. six months ago at the behest of the Treasury Department, said he had asked most of those who got a bonus to give at least half back. This did not seem to calm the subcommittee members down very much, although the fact that Liddy is working without pay while getting mail from people who want to garrote him with piano wire seemed to have a slight dampening effect.

It is not particularly satisfying to complain about businessmen who answer their country’s call for $1 a year. However, Liddy does have three houses, which is one above the new quota.
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If John McCain were president, you can bet that we’d be getting outrage 24-7. McCain would be so angry that we’d be scared that he’d have a coronary or invade a new country. The New York Post would be running “Calm Down, Mr. President” headlines.

Except, of course, the whole reason we elected Barack Obama was because when the economy started melting down, Obama seemed sane and calm while McCain appeared to be a loopy visitor from the Planet of the Overwrought.

I hate it when we make irrational, contradictory demands of our president. But, it seems as if that’s what he’s there for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/19collins.html?ref=opinion

:rofl: Let's just hate everybody and everything for a while and get some of it out of our systems.
(I want to know more about Liddy because he may have been involved in shenanigans. However, it would appear he's getting ALL the shit dumped on him about everything that's happened whether it concerns AIG or not. I'd take my $1 and leave.)