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At the link: a letter to Liddy. I don’t think Liddy is the one the author should be pissed at. From what I could see, Liddy went to quite a bit of trouble to avoid pointing the finger in any specific direction, despite that barking moonbat Alan Grayson’s efforts to the contrary.
Grayson doesn’t have anything to lose. He’s a one-term Congressman, and he knows it.
The mendoucheousness of Barcky, the Congreecritters, and the MSM has been nothing short of breath-taking.
Here’s a link to a CNBC discussion yesterday, based on an AIG internal memo, of the AG Cuomo, extra-legal, angry-mob-driven pressure campaign, verging on blackmail, certainly depending on threat.
…Okay.
ACORN, like the “crisis,” and the looting and power-grabs that it excuses, is (among other things) a joint venture of the government and the “financial sector.”
They fund it. You think they don’t know what it does?
Prodding opponents into reflexively backing a side that they’ve defined — limiting “pushback” to unanalytical reaction that can easily be characterized according to existing stereotype, because it fits it — is how they “organize” their opposition (into futility).
They’re “freezing” AIG. For you, too.
Say they’re doing it.
Don’t play along.
AIG resignation letter guy is their useful idiot.
Don’t join him.
Is this a great country or what?
Stimulus cash goes to ACORN who can then fund trips for losers to protest outside the homes of employees of a company that can only stay open because they received stimulus cash. I’m sure there is some irony in there but it is way over my head.
Hey, it worked before.
The CNBC link simply proves that streaming video is just not quite here yet. I especially dislike sites that won’t buffer to your computer, but insist on live delivery.
I think he’s a pussy for not keeping the money.
Some (R) in the Senate should vote to repeal Obama’s stimulus plan so they can remove the offending legislation giving them these bonuses. For teh children.
We didn’t do a Presidential Prompter Speech thread, but this all puts in mind what I was thinking last night. All Mr. Teleprompter’s posturing that aid is on its way … bla bla bla. And, I thinking about a bunch of pictures I took of all the businesses that have closed in my small town. Many w/in the last few weeks. I’m waiting, and I’ll report as soon as I see ONE NEW BUSINESS open up.
The only new “business” you’re going to see is some kind of government office handing out jobs or largesse. Officially, anyway.
Look to the black market (I denounce myself). Lots of opportunities there.
Huh?
Something along the lines of not expecting the mob to denounce and turn on itself, I think, Rob. They’re going to stick with what they don’t know.
#7 Way OT, but yeah, I detest sites that make content hard to deliver. I like Ed Morrissey, but he has to get rid of that lousy Ustream interface. It likes playing live, but don’t hold your breath if you want to stream it afterwards.
I’ll bet DeSantis will find this letter more grief than it was worth, once the MSM proctological exam begins. I can’t agree with psycho entirely, however in support of his argument it occurs to me the reason the New York Pravda posted this letter was precisely because they think this man is hanging himself. I completely sympathize with DeSantis, and yet I would not tempt fate as he has were I in his shoes.
I’d say the same if he were giving it back. But he isn’t.
He should donate that money to the NRA.
I know but it’s a lot of money. He could buy really nice stuff with that. If I were his kid I would be like gee thanks Dad… what part of the work/get paid concept do you not understand?
You have to stick to your guns for real when socialists try to steal your shit. The principle is no no no you deranged socialist hungarian dildo, this shit is my shit and fuck the hell out of you.
well said, hf!
If he’s going to have a huge screen on the back wall, will the press simply start turning around to read his answers rather than listening to him? Easier to make notes from text.
If he’s going to have a huge screen on the back wall, will the press simply start turning around to read his answers rather than listening to him? Easier to make notes from text.
Supposedly, only the opening statement was on the prompter. I think Emanuel was sending text-to-speech messages to his earpiece for the answers. You didn’t think those were real ears, did you?
Wait, who’s hungarian?
Wait, who’s hungarian?
Soros, I believe.
psycho:
You lost me. I don’t understand finances and junk well enough to follow your allusions. Could you flesh that out for me?
CNBC should give this guy his own show…
[…] Miss Attila sums the situation up almost perfectly (via Jeff Goldstein): I think some in the administration/legislature just dug out old Nazi propaganda, crossed out […]
Let’s invest hundreds of billions of dollars in a company, and then piss-off the key employees…
O2 use tax on all democrats…
“Stimulus cash goes to ACORN who can then fund trips for losers to protest outside the homes of employees of a company that can only stay open because they received stimulus cash. ”
AIG cash isn’t from the stimulus.
I hungarian. I go eet dinar now.
I think Psycho is getting a little tin-foiled around the edges.
We can get so caught up in this that we are ready to condemn any public-private partnership.
To me, that’s missing the point–the kind of overreach that IMO Ayn Rand committed when she condemned altruism and religion. Yeah: when government meddles, it usually screws things up. But that isn’t what this is. This is far worse than meddling.
Banks were pressured into taking bailout money–even those that didn’t need it–so that those who did take it wouldn’t be stigmatized. Now the government wants to use this as an excuse to demonize and harass private citizens, and is ENFORCING the demonization by spending money on goons (via ACORN funds in the stimulus bill) that they know damned well didn’t do anything wrong–but will provide a convenient scapegoat.
I don’t give a shit what this guy does with the money; there’s no purity test I need to enforce. The fact is, he found a way to say “fuck you” to the government and to those in his profession who are voluntarily sewing yellow stars onto their clothes. That’s what counts.
The exact “phrasing” isn’t important (keeping the money, giving it to charity; whatever). The pivotal thing is that he said it: “fuck you.”