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[farmertan]

i was going to watch leno but by the time i remembered garth was on garth is cool the pres not so much so i guess i didnt miss much.

[Pistol Gripper]

Waterhead was Leno asking what kind of dog he was getting.  But the real politically incorrect comment was:

MR. OBAMA: I bowled a 129. (Laughter and applause.)

MR. LENO: No, that's very good. Yes. That's very good, Mr. President.

MR. OBAMA: It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something.

My what an intelligent comment,

P.G.

[bb71challenger]

Waterhead was Leno asking what kind of dog he was getting.  But the real politically incorrect comment was:

MR. OBAMA: I bowled a 129. (Laughter and applause.)

MR. LENO: No, that's very good. Yes. That's very good, Mr. President.

MR. OBAMA: It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something.

My what an intelligent comment,

P.G.

Now attach that quote to Bush and see the uproar it would cause. The liberals probably had a chuckle and shared a small special olympic moment with their new king.

[torredcuda]

Interesting reading-
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/more-paycap-hypocrisy/

http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/18/2561535-republicans-who-opposed-wall-street-salary-caps-last-month-now-condemning-outrageous-aig-bonuses?commentId=6009840

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/18/flashback-it-was-bush-gop_n_176442.html

[bb71challenger]

Yeah there are hyprocrites in both parties, nothing new. Thing is the Republicans can do little more now than sit on the sideline and watch what the Dems do, they have control, they are running the show. Lets see if the media starts crucifying this administration like it did the last. Gonna be funny to see where the Dems run to shove blame for the mistakes they have already made and will continue to make. I will say that Obama has pretty much run out of gas riding the back of the last cabinets mistakes, its time for his balls to drop, be the man he claims he is and make something happen.

[71chally416]

Waterhead was Leno asking what kind of dog he was getting.  But the real politically incorrect comment was:

MR. OBAMA: I bowled a 129. (Laughter and applause.)

MR. LENO: No, that's very good. Yes. That's very good, Mr. President.

MR. OBAMA: It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something.

My what an intelligent comment,

P.G.

They are both words used by nine other than Larry the Cable Guy in his stand-up act referring to retarded people. It's obviously on his mind after dealing with Reid and Pelosi all the time.

The Huffington Post? Since when is that OR the NYT that it posts articles from a creditable objective news source? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200306/06/eng20030606_117782.shtml

[torredcuda]

I`ts not just the huffington post-just Google the republicans oppose the cap on compenstion from the bail out and see what you get.Like I keep saying there`s always two sides to the story and some of you guys need to take the blinders off and look once in a while.

[leithal]

This guy is a retard!

[71chally416]

I`ts not just the huffington post-just Google the republicans oppose the cap on compenstion from the bail out and see what you get.Like I keep saying there`s always two sides to the story and some of you guys need to take the blinders off and look once in a while.

Pelosi wrote the stimulus bill. Dodd's amendment that is in the stimulus provides an "exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before February 11, 2009."  Dodd's own amendment exempts the very AIG bonuses that he and others are seeking to tax and the Dems are pretending to be outraged about. The amendment is in the final version and it is law because the president signed it. 

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/government/dodd-does-face-exec-comp-wording-law/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/17/aig.bonuses.congress/

[lemming303]

Since we're not really talking about the pres any more, I'll put my 2 cents on the AIG crap.

A bonus is a BONUS! At my job we work for salary + bonus. That means that we get a salary and bonuses for work completed. I work in the oilfield in Well Services. We work on wells for completions, and usually a "job" lasts one day, sometimes two or more. For each day I am on location, I get one bonus. But ONLY if I don't screw up like break equipment, mess something up downhole, lose tools downhole, piss off the customer, screw up paperwork, no safety incidents, and so on. If something happens that is caused by "Head-up-ass", then I lose my bonus for that day.

So now explain where in the f--- AIG executives did a great job and deserve a 6 mil bonus? They had a 65 BILLION DOLLAR LOSS in the last quarter! Why is that worthy of a bonus!?!

Anyway, that is my opinion.

[71chally416]

I agree a bonus is a bonus.

If our brilliant Congress didn't want AIG and the others giving out millions in bonuses after bailing them out for their incompetence, then they should have made a clause in the bill they wrote forbidding it instead of adding a last minute exemption giving them permission to pay it. As in all cases, follow the money. Dodd and our President got over 100K from them to get elected and it was just payback. All of the phoney "outrage" is just a show for us dumb voters to either believe or reject, just like when they bring the Oil company execs in to grill them over high oil prices and then never do anything about it, while in reality their own blockage of domestic drilling for 30 years is the real root cause. For me, after the Fannie/Freddy collapse that Dodd was also involved in up to his neck (and also at the top of their political contribution list) I've seen enough of him. He has no buisness being as the head of finance in the Congress.
 

[torredcuda]

Like I said,two or more sides to every story-
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/17/dodd/index.html

http://mediamatters.org/items/200903170026

[wiiildcat]

      The sad thing is, we are debating if he did or didn't which is the strategy of this admin. Deflect interest away from the fact they are stealing your wallet with their left hand, while shaking your hand with their right.
     
      Nobody can convince me that what they are doing is right or just. This is down right scary, once this is opened it will be abused to the fullest extent of the admin. 

[lumpy]

The politicians are screwed no matter what they do in this situation. On one hand you have a company that gave bonuses to people that, IMO did not deserve them. Well, that's ok it's their money, or our money. So if you oppose the bonuses, you are a bad guy for trying to control AIG's decisions. If you don't oppose it, then you are the bad guy also, either way you lose votes.
  You knew this was going to happen, the govt. gives all these big companies billions, then they OWN you. So what's their solution to the gigantic mess that they have created? Well the answer is easy of course, tax the bonuses at 90%!! These guys are just F'n brilliant!! What a bunch of incompetent, overpaid, yellow-bellied, jerk-offs!! The whole bunch of them, Rep's, Dems, House, Senate. They should ALL Lose their jobs, next time around. This is just getting too stupid.

[bb71challenger]

I also dont think the AIG people deserved a bonus but what the government did was unconstitutional. They all at once wrote a law and passed it through congress and it was signed into law to tax a certain group of people at 90%. Now think of that and your own personal income tax. What if they decide to "roll up their sleeves" and tax us all at a higher level? Unlikely but a dangerous precedent has been set with what they did.