Conservatives Suggest Torture For AIG Execs: ‘Exemplary Hanging,’ Guillotine Party, ‘‘Boiling In Oil

[jefferson_dem]

Conservatives Suggest Torture Tactics For AIG Execs: ‘Exemplary Hanging,’ Guillotine Party, ‘Boiling In Oil’

Politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle have expressed outrage at the recent news that bailed-out insurance giant AIG will be paying $165 million in bonuses to the same executives who “brought the company to the brink of collapse.” President Obama and members of Congress are trying to figure out a way to revoke the bonuses while others have called for top executives to be fired.

While conservatives have joined in the mass discontent with AIG, some are taking their anger a bit too far. Yesterday on a local Iowa radio show, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) suggested that AIG executives consider committing suicide. And last night on Fox News, far right pundit Charles Krauthammer and his milder counterpart Mort Kondracke argued that some should be put to death:

KRAUTHAMMER: I’m all in favor of keeping this heaping opprobrium. I would deny them the bonuses if possible. I would be for an exemplary hanging or two. Have it in Times Square, invite Madame DuFarge. You borrow a guillotine from the French and we could have a party. If that’s what it takes to maintain popular support, let’s do it. But it’s not going to change anything economically. <…>

KONDRACKE: I was going to recommend boiling in oil in Times Square, but look, because these are the people who invented these crazy credit default swaps that are leading to the whole disaster.

Whether it’s terrorism, international crises, domestic crime or, in this case, excessive corporate greed, some conservatives seem unable to see problems as anything other than a nail for which the only solution is a hammer.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/17/conservatives-aig-death/

[SpiralHawk]

1. Take a good look in the mirror, you so-called 'conservatives'

Because undoubtedly the AIG clowns also number themselves among the so-called Republicon 'conservatives' and have been acting EXACTLY that way.

You 'conservatives' are the self same Latter Day Pharisees who employed radical borrow-and-spend policies that have driven the USA in a phenomenally deep debt and deficit hole, trashed the environment we all depend upon for sustenance, and smirkingly lied the nation into a war that has cost thousands of lives and trillions of our collective treasure.

So take a good look in the mirror you so-called 'conservatives' and you will see the ugly, corrupt mugs of AIG archetypes staring back at you.

[tekisui]

2. The RWers are getting damn kooky.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Integrity and capitalism?...I didn't know you cared, Pubbies

Sniff.

[depakid]

4. Just expressing the same thing that plenty of DU'ers do

in seeming seriousness whenever there's some egregious act posted. Interesting how those threads devolve.

The difference of course being that Krauthammer is a syndicated sociopath (whose delusions appear in papes all across America) and Grassley is still (a none too bright) US Senator from Iowa.

[Raine1967]

5. I just heard Chuck Grassley on the news

(on the AP radio during the SMS show) Say that we should use the *Japanese Model* and bring these people in front of congress and let them kill themselves. .

[NewJeffCT]

6. Wasn't Phil Gramm one of the pioneers in allowing this stuff?

would Republics be so quick to call for hanging/torture if their Pied Piper on the economy was the first one to go/

[GoCubsGo]

7. Why, yes, he was!

And, THEY enabled him by passing the laws deregulating the banking industry. Do we get to boil them in oil, too? Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please! Oh, please!

[zbdent]

8. they must have found one who donated to a Dem ...