Conservatives Suggest Torture Tactics For AIG Execs:

[stevedeshazer]

‘Exemplary Hanging,’ Guillotine Party, ‘Boiling In Oil’

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

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.

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Video at link

[DireStrike]

1. Does the liberal establishment not get it?

The public wants to hear these things. THEY should be doing it.

Thinkprogress should have long articles that compare these people to actual, caught-and-convicted criminals in an unfavorable light, with a recommendation for a sentence at the end, if they want to be nice about it.

But reason doesn't win arguments in American political discourse. Emotion does.

[SpiralHawk]

2. 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 archetypal replicas of the ugly, corrupt mugs of the AIG execs that you are now pretending to deplore staring back at you.