Even as President Obama’s tries to push through a number of neo-Marxist-flavored initiatives intended to, by force, create “social justice” (as he’s defined the term), some of his base is apoplectic that in addition to not having taken advantage of his mandate, well — he’s just not the Obama they thought was. Asks Jane Hamsher, without a hint of irony, “Who Stole Our Country, and How are We Going to Get It Back?”:
Yesterday we found out that Geithner made a $27 billion dollar gift to AIG counterparties, paying off credit default swaps at 100% of their value. Gretchen Morgenson in the NYT asks why these insurance claims “were paid off in full, even though widespread defaults on the underlying debt have not occurred?” Geithner has now reached a “deal” whereby AIG executives get millions more in bonuses by March 15, then more in July, and then September, but AIG has to show that they’ve made progress “selling off business units and repaying the government.”
American taxpayers now own 80% of AIG. They’ll be paying back the government, and paying off the bonuses, with our money. There is no reason to be tiptoeing around these people.
Are Geithner and Summers are just too aligned with Wall Street interests to do what needs to be done?
The bottom line is — nobody trusts them. Congress needs to use its subpoena power to get a hold of these AIG contracts and make their own analysis.
So. Who stole our country, indeed?
Writes Jules Crittenden, noting the peculiar nature of the question:
We just had an election, your side won, and your guy appointed the two people you’re complaining about, Geithner and Summers, the former having been confirmed by your Senate, the latter being a freethrow who presided over the dismantling of regulatory firewalls. Barney Frank, well that you have to take up with Nancy Pelosi and the 4th Massachusetts Congressional District. Cab’t help you there. But it sounds like FDL’s Hamster trusts Congress. Otherwise, I’d suggest looking for a Tea Party near you.
Jesus, people. CAN’T A MAN JUST EAT HIS WAFFLES IN PEACE…?
Ironic, the buyer’s remorse, when everything’s going to be free.
Err …gurgle, gurgle … RUSH!
ApacheTrout March 16th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Jane – I don’t want to knock petitions and calling our representatives, but the time has come to move into disobedience. We need to stop paying taxes in mass.
Who needs a fucking straight man.
Or a sock.
Jeff, it’s the reactionary left.
Take back the language.
Heh……
We’re all Chicago now. As if there were any other possible outcome, duh.
Jeff, it’s the reactionary left.
Take back the language.
They can have the word “progressive.” It’s already besmirched by their support for eugenics and the good fascism that had the trains running on time.
The Obamas should name their new puppy “Boy.”
Absolutely not. No. No Baracky can’t eat his waffles in peace cause he is a dirty socialist piece of shit, Mr. Goldstein. What did his demagogic ass say today? About AIG he said “How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?”* But he keeps his stupid dirty socialist mouth shut when on the same day it’s reported that…
Who does this dipshit think is keeping this incompetent dirty socialist third world shithole of a state afloat? Why doesn’t he ask his butt boy Arnold how he justifies this outrage? I’ll tell you why not. Cause he’s a hypocritical dirty socialist piece of shit is why not.
Great spectacles this winter. The administration farcically five times as incompetent as one would have thought last November. The wicked as they writhe in spasms of twee rage. Requires large buckets of the finest popcorn.
SHOCKER!!! Liberal Fascist voters unhappy with the liberal fascist gummint they chose!!
Shorter Hamsher:
“No!!!! I wanted Obama to steal money from other people and give it to ME! I didn’t want him to steal money from ME and give it to OTHER PEOPLE!”
Stupid bint. As if increased government power EVER winds up benefiting people other than the elites.
Man those are mighty expensive waffles, no wonder he wants to finish them.
They knew they were voting for a thief. They were just too fucking stupid to wonder why he’d bother sharing his loot with them.
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.”
-– George Bernard Shaw
(OT a bit) Just read about Barney Frank inveighing against rewarding incompetence at AIG.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Frank-assails-bonuses-paid-to-apf-14646988.html
I think I just sprained something in my brain related to irony processing. Maybe ice would help?
This reflects utter confidence, not to say bewildering arrogance, in control of the narrative.
Protein of the day: Myoglobin
Why myoglobin? Higher concentrations of myoglobin in muscle tissue would allow the heartachy to hold their breaths longer. Besides, it got a heme.
Maybe ice would help?
If it’s floating in enough bourbon, ice can do wonders.
HEMEIST!
Jane had better be looking over her shoulder … I got my marching orders from David Plouffe on Friday to start drowning out the cynics
The One is demanding my pledge and that I
coercepersuade my family and neighbors to pledge fealty to The One, too. Jane better watch that getting a little too cynic-ie … she’ll get drowned out!Dr. Orly Taitz (3/14/2009) – “I Did It. Justice Roberts Agreed to read all of my documents.” http://defendourfreedoms.us/2009/03/14/i-did-it.aspx?results=1 –
excerpt: was the first to run to the microphone and told Roberts. “My name is Orly Taitz, I am an attorney from Southern California. I left home at three o’clock in the morning and flew and drove thousands of miles to talk to you and ask you a question”. Roberts seemed to be impressed by that and I continued. “Are you aware that there is criminal activity going on in the Supreme Court of the United States. I have submitted my case Lightfoot v Bowen to you. You agreed to hear it in the conference of all 9 Justices on January 23. Your clerk, Danny Bickle, on his own accord refused to forward to you an important supplemental brief, he has hidden it from you and refused to post it on the docket. Additionally, my case was erased from the docket, completely erased one day after the inauguration, only two days before it was supposed to be heard in the conference. Outraged citizens had to call and demand for it to be posted. On Monday I saw Justice Scalia and he had absolutely no knowledge of my case, that was supposedly heard in conference on January 23rd. It is inexplicable, particularly knowing that roughly half a million American citizens have written to him and to you Justice Roberts demanding that you hear this issue of eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro to be the President of the United States.” At that point I have shown to Roberts a stack of papers, that I held. Those were my pleadings and printouts that I got from WorldNetDaily. It contained your names, names of about 350,000 that signed the petition. (there were others that have written individual letters,) . Roberts stated “I will read your documents, I will review them. Give them to my Secret Service Agent and I will review them”. His Secret Service Agent approached me and stated ” Give me all the documents, I promise you Justice Roberts will get them”. I had a full suitcase of documents. The agent went to look for a box, he found a large box to fit all the documents, he showed me his badge, and introduced himself as Gilbert Shaw, secret Service Agent assigned fto the security of Chief Justice Roberts. I gave him
1.Motion fo reconsideration of Lightfoot v Bowen with all the supplemental briefs.
2. Quo Warranto Easterling et al v Obama et al
3. 3300 pages of your names, people that signed WorldNetDaily petition, demanding that the Supreme Court hear Obama elligibility case.
4. Copy of a 164 page dossier and all the other documents sent to Eric Holder, Attorney General, describing suspected criminal activity, associated with Obama and his supporters. It described a whole campaign of cyber crimes, intimidation, harassment, defamation and assassination of character, impersonation of a US army officer Scott Easterling and impersonation of me, …
I forget. Is Jane the Fire or the Dog or the Lake?
I think there has been a crazy-spill on aisle 20 there. Can someone call housekeeping?
Interesting, Lee. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
I must have missed the day in Con Law when they covered the “Door-to-Door Petition for Certiorari.” Probably it was on St. Patrick’s Day, because I preferred the Irish Pub on Walnut Street to Professor Goodman’s lecture hall.
Lightfoot v Bowen
Lightfoot for sure. That one song is so sad about the boat, the End of Miss Cheryl.
The comments section linked at 20, above, is almost enough to make one reconsider the Second Amendment.
So to sum up: The government keeps a company from going insolvent. Keeps the management that would have ran the company into insolvency. Give the company and that management a load of taxpayer money with out taking the company over. Then the management uses said money to award bonuses and now Obama is mad?
Dude, WTF are you mad about? I had my shares fucked over by your Freddie/Fanny pals and then you took over and jacked my taxes to give to them so I can get fucked over again? I could give a rats ass if Obama is outraged, he has no skin in the game. What a stupid noob.
I think Jane was POSITIVE she was one of the “elites.”
Get outta here!
(Psst, Hey, Jane, grammar police here. Your antecendent is plural hence you should have written, “…make their own analyses.” But what the hell do I know? I’m just another dumb hick classical liberal.)
Anyhoo, I’m reminded of something I read this past weekend, (paraphrasing): To do physics, or math, or chemistry, you need a pencil, some paper, and a wastebasket. But to do political science, you don’t need the wastebasket.
Darleen,
That would be David, the Fuming Plouffe.
“I could give a rats ass if Obama is outraged, he has no skin in the game. What a stupid noob.”
Just so. I’d be willing to wager a not insignificent sum he’s never owned a share of stock his entire life. Ever. But hey, I hear from this cat that stocks are cheap: they’re selling at low “profits to earnings ratios.”
At least grampa Sidney admitted economics were not his strong suit.
HOMOPHOBE!
But one can’t expect liarblogfakers to take responsibility for their reasoning today any more than they didn’t take intellectual responsibility for voting in November. It’s profoundly annoying but it’s not profoundly unexpected.
This is progressivism: progressing past accountability directly into victimhood in a unique reality where sucking up to the collectivist eventually makes one uncomfortable with collectivism. In four month’s time.
MORE SKIN ON HBO!
Oh sorry, I only got as far as 20.
I’ll believe it when the Obama-in-blackface picture goes up.
Like Crittenden sort of says, this here
is in “If only the fuhrer knew” mode. And the “base,” all of it, will stay in that mode to the end.
No one who shouts about taking back what’s ours has a way out of it.
They’re not two different things. They’re a thing. A famous thing.
OT for happyfeet,
You asked about a link for a film posted by BRD at the pub.
This is it I believe, Christmas in Darfur.
Here are two links to PW posts about it also.
Is a Fuming Plouffe like a Flaming Poof, only different?
“Who stole our country”, indeed.
Well, you did ya feckin morons.
This sure is schadenfreudey and all, but does Jane realize what this reveals about her womanness?
Man, you’re gonna be scaring the crap out of the kiddies with that the end talk. Bunkers.
They have met the enemy, and it is them.
But in a hopey changey kind of way.
We need a Presidential Lemon Law.
Thanks geoff – I will bookmark at home tonight. Hmmm. OT: Me I think Charles Grassley is way way way overdue on the resigning or killing himself thing. Drudge really shouldn’t tell me things like this he has to know they give me a frowny face.
I’ve written thousands of words on AIG, most of them investigative and I’ve waited for the truth to come out.
Sadly, the media screwed it up. Shocking, I know.
the reason those CDS were paid off in full is that foreign governments, looking at the prospect of their sovereign banks being wiped out with their counter-party risk, demanded that they be paid off. Because if a couple or three of those banks like Soc Gen and a few other smaller guys took the great swim that required no towel, then this crappy situation would go nuclear.
this problem has a 100% US origin and so our erstwhile allies and comrades have something approaching zero tolerance for their own countries economies being collapsed because of US-originated contagion. the White House blinked, in other words.
also, Goldman probably couldnt take a 12bn hit.
O’Reilly just showed video of Jackie Mason using a term that a person was offended by. The person had a camera, and was asking Mason questions somewhat aggressively it appeared.
Very pertinent.
The interview after (with Angela McGlowan???) is essentially about intentionalism and nothing else.
Lightfoot for sure. That one song is so sad about the boat, the End of Miss Cheryl.
Actually, it’s “The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald.” Which is even sadder.
Obama will clear all this up in his monologue on Leno tonight.
“It…uh……..was……uh……so……..uh..hot..”
“HOW HOT WAS IT?!?!?”
“Uh……it…….uh….was…uh….so…..hot, yo….uh….mama……got……uh…….sweaty.”
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH BARACK OBAMA?
?
that’s ok you can still use spanish for black
He’s a sick in the head dirty socialist George Soros puppet, GMG.
Follow the Money!
Wasn’t it Deep Throat who said that? Maybe you are onto something Jeff with your favorite insult.
Take and eat, this is my body…
And so crunchy, juicy, and delicious too!
So what is the intent here? Obamessiah? Cheap commericial exploitation? Why chicken?
Jane misses the point: the US government now owns 80% of AIG. 80%…let that sink in a while. Not to mention all the other companies that are the government now holds a huge stake in. What could be more progressive, more leftist….more socialist?
This is the start of percisely what the proggies have been agitating all these years for. What the hell did they think it would look like.
Who cares-isn’t Jane the hot one? . . . . .
No, she’s the dog in firedoglake.
I agree: the left has its full-Euro sclerotic tilt boogie on. im not sure what their beef is. anyhow, for generations, insurance has been a good business.
The interview after (with Angela McGlowan???) is essentially about intentionalism and nothing else.
Yes! I caught pieces of it. Mason seemed to cover the ground, too, right on the spot. For those who didn’t see it, Angela is black, or at least she used to be a “real” black, probably back sometime before she learned to talk. She essentially advised Mason to use the allegedly offending term at every possibly occasion.
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The Petulant Left got all moist and light-headed for the Clean and Articulate One. But the cabal with its collective hand stuck up Obama’s ass is composed of black racists, hard-core Marxists, and machine pols, with Petulant Leftists nowhere to be found; they’re not being thrown under the bus so much as scraped of the sides of the bandwagon.
Sorry, Jane, but the cabal doesn’t need you any more. Now shut up before the Panthers show up at your door.
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According to the Racial Slur Database,
That is both incredibly funny and sad at the same time.