This is the latest from Salon...
I'll ask you the same thing I asked Newby. What do you have to say about this story that broke last year about Bush/Paulson wanting zero oversite of these details?
The deal proposed by Paulson is nothing short of outrageous. It includes no oversight of his own closed-door operations. It merely gives congressional blessing and funding to what he has already been doing, ad hoc. He plans to retain Wall Street firms as advisors to decide just how to cut deals to value and mop up Wall Street's dubious paper. There are to be no limits on executive compensation for the firms that get relief, and no equity share for the government in exchange for this massive infusion of capital.
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We told you this was happening last year. Now you are telling us as if Obama came up with the idea?
I would commend the outrage you feel - it is justified.
What is now central to the justified outrage is how Geithner failed to fully explain these bonuses to the current administration - or did in fact explain them and this administration shrugged about it...or both Geithner and Summers actually pushed to have the bonus protection inserted into last month's stimulus bill at the direction of the president, or....
You see, while one can be upset over Paulson and Co. for their role in this mess last fall, the greater blame now lies directly at the feet of the Obama administration and the Democrat Congress.
Read that Salon article - who is setting up who? Was Dodd truly behind the scheme to protect his campaign contributor AIG, or was his hand forced by the Obama administration, who is now attempting to hang it around the neck of Dodd?? Is Obama playing a role in this, or is he simply a mouthpiece and the White House is being run by various advisors and czars...THESE are the questions you must now ask and seek to find answers for.
Finally we can start calling you guys the conspiracy theorists.
Prove it. Seriously, prove it.
Yesterday one of you even tried to pretend Dick Cheney didn't out Valerie Wilson, even though Scooter was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to prosecutors.
If they didn't do it, why lie?
So it is hard to take you guys seriously. Fox has been known to lie. They were even taken to court and the verdict was that it is ok for Fox to lie. So why should we believe them when we know they lie and it is legal for them to do so?
Example. They might truly believe what they are reporting, but the source of their information is bad. So they aren't obligated to have facts on their show.
So they use that to lie. "hey, that's the information we were given"
Very similar to the Yellow Cake from africa/WMD/Downing Street memo's information Bush got. He got to pretend that he was innocent and just got bad information. Now we know he chose to ignore credible information because it didn't help him with his reasoning for invading Iraq.
So I need verification of your story.