Subscribe to Moronmeter!Senator Dodd: I Did It, But It’s Not My Fault
Two days ago, Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) was up in arms about the AIG executive retention/bonus payments, but he conveniently didn’t mention in his press release that he put the exemption into the stimulus bill that paved the way for the bonuses (more on that here).
He got called on it.
Now Senator Dodd is saying he is the one that put the loophole that allowed the AIG executive bonuses, but it isn’t his fault – it is the Treasury Department. He says the Treasury Department insisted on putting the loophole in.
The Treasury Department says it didn’t ask for any exemption.
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee (and one of the people on the conference committee to resolve the differences between the Senate and House versions of the bill) said most of the bill was written by Senate and Treasury staffers.
I have four questions:
- Do any of these people actually know what the heck is going on up there? None of them seem to take any responsibility for anything, but they sure like writing big checks on the tax payers’ dime.
- Do any of these people actually do any work? Sure, they are busy. You can’t give 20 interviews a day, telling everyone that nothing is your fault and everything is that other guys fault, and not be busy. What I’m asking is: Do any of them actually do the work we sent them to Washington to do?
- Why haven’t any of these jokers just blamed all of this bad government on George W. Bush? Have we finally gotten to the point where they realized that they can’t blame everything on him or have they just not gotten around to pointing the finger at him yet?
- How much longer are we going to allow these clowns to run the circus?
Link:
ABC News: Dodd vs. Treasury: Who Is Responsible for AIG Loophole?.
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