Bartcop Gets It

[Cronopio]

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Dodd put out the following statement last night:

“I’m the one who has led the fight against excessive executive compensation, often over the objections of many.

What?

Rule Number One - when confessing your guilt, try to make sense.

"I did not want to make any changes to my original Senate-passed amendment but I did so at the request of Administration officials, who gave us no indication that this was in any way related to AIG. Let me be clear – I was completely unaware of these AIG bonuses until I learned of them last week."

So who is Dodd preparing to Judas kiss - Geithner or Obama?

Dodd told Wolf the Whore, "Treasury asked me to give those crooked bastards $160M."
And Wolf asked, "Who, specifically asked you to give the crooks $160M?"
And Dodd the clumsy, boneheaded liar replied, "Staffers, I didn't get their names..."

Really?

Unnamed, blank-faced "staffers" asked you to give $160M to the AIG crooks - and you did?
Unnamed, blank-faced "staffers" asked you to lie to Wolf the Whore Tuesday - and you did?
Unnamed, blank-faced "staffers" asked you to throw away your integrity - and you did?

What if some unnamed, blank-faced staffer asked you to dress up like Bo f-ing Peep and blow every dude at the Washington DC Greyhound Bus Station?

Folks, we might be in trouble.
Our Democratic administration seems to be lying to us.

Why can't they tell the truth?
What have they done that puts them in the position that being a clumsy liar on live TV is better than telling the truth because the truth - obviously - is so much worse?

[aldo]

1. Is Obama really the one calling the shots?

Or do the banksters have him by the short hairs? His economic team is nearly identical with Bush's.

[TheWraith]

2. Oh please. Peddle that crap elsewhere. nt

[Cronopio]

3. I think it was a colossal, well-meaning mistake on the part of several in the Obama admin.

It's another lesson in how political expediency at the expense of more important matters is *always* a bad idea.

Instead of trying not to offend their friends in their Wall Street "in group", they should have done the right thing to save the economic system.

This has given the GOP ammo they don't deserve.

[blm]

4. His economic team is a hybrid of Bush and Clinton. He shouldn't have bought into the DC hype about

competence in the 90s - it was an economic bubble, period, and Dems have to get used to that fact.

Obama had (and still HAS) the opportunity to put in progressive policies submitted over the years to counter the fascist agenda that dominated the last three decades. It's shameful that he bought into the idea that Clinton team players were economic wizards - they had similar policies to BushInc, but, they also had the good fortune to be in the WH during an economic bubble, which made the shit of the deregulation craze shine brighter a little longer.

[Cronopio]

5. Hopefully, this will convince Obama to stop straddling the fence and get serious ...

... about reforming the banking system.

Obama has some tough decisions to make now. He's got to get very comfortable about making a lot of powerful enemies or his presidency will be of marginal benefit at best.