the hypocrisy is running really deep on this, they all knew, or should have known about the bonuses.
Chris Dodd now wants to tax away the bonuses when he himself put in an ammendment into the stimulus bill that specifically protected those contracts.
i guess actually reading the bill before you sign it might not be such a bad idea after all. Congress has already debated this relatively meager issue much more than the stimulus bill which is roughly a 5,000 times larger blow to the taxpayer.
and then there is the Republican senator who said those guys should take a deep bow and commit suicide. Grassley should be taken away in a straightjacket.
AIG should use the Obama's earmark defense.
"Oh those contracts are last years business, we've got to move forward now. We'll make sure it doesn't happen next year"
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