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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 21, 2009, 10:36:31 AM
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:39 AM
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NOW we are getting to the heart of the matter: Goldman Sachs lobbyist is Geithner's Chief of Staff
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/geithner-ai...
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One of Obama's opponents at that time was Mark Patterson, a lobbyist then for Goldman Sachs, the investment banking firm, which opposed the Frank-Obama initiative. Yet Patterson is now chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the embattled point man in the Obama administration's endeavor to undo the notorious AIG bonuses. That is, a Washington influence-peddler who worked against Obama's effort to limit excessive corporate pay is now a key member of the Obama administration team that is supposed to contain excessive compensation in the AIG case and in general.
We warned them. We warned them. We warned them. No matter how we tried to warn them they were too wrapped-up in A) their fantasies of Obama and B) their reflexive hatred of conservatives to listen.
Who would have suspected that our political salvation--the public hatred of Obama--may rest on the shoulders of a commie rag like MJ? Salon.com also broke the story that the AIG bonus fiasco was the admin's doing and that Obama and Dodd were the two highest recievers of AIG campaign contributions.
(TRIVIA: Michael Moore was fired from his position as an editor for Mother Jones because he was too radical for them with his support for the Sandinistas.)
marketcrazy1 (606 posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:42 AM
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1. LOL!!!!!!!
now THATS change we can believe in!!!!
dkf (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:42 AM
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2. Oh oh. This is not good at all.
burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:47 AM
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5. At least it makes some more sense now. n/t
seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:45 AM
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3. WTF
acmavm (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:47 AM
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4. ****, just put Wall Street on the public payroll, give 'em a
****ing office in the White House and be done with it.
burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:47 AM
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7. Goldman Sachs OWNS you!
msongs (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:47 AM
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6. "new democrat" acting like the old democrats. nt
acmavm (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:49 AM
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9. Where are the Bots on this? I cannot wait to hear their excuse for
this one.
You know, we're picking on poor naive innocent little Timmy all the time. Maybe they can put it all on this schmuck.
ihavenobias (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 12:33 PM
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26. I was thinking the same thing. n/t
Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 10:05 AM
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59. Geithner might need to go - anything else? nt
natrat (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 10:14 AM
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63. like wack a mole-if geitner goes another hopeful secretary will pop up
Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 10:15 AM
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64. Okay, but slowly it will be modified. It's like any job. Did any of us start a job and
do it perfectly from the get-go? No.
FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 10:17 AM
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66. I was also thinking the exact same thing. I think you'll find the True Believers in GD:DLC (GD:P)
DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 12:06 PM
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14. more like -acting like Republicans... n/t
enfield collector (802 posts) Fri Mar-20-09 12:24 PM
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20. too true, at least we knew the rethugs were going to **** us! n/t
Octafish (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:49 AM
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8. Mr. President, please clean house.
Wall Street has no business in running the White House.
burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:58 AM
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11. Someone must have their thumb on Obama. That is a scary thought but the
alternative explanations are scarier.
Ah yes...a conspiracy must be behind this. The notion that all of you we're so easily duped by a slick-talking Chicago pol in spite of the repeated warnings from conservatives is simply too painful to contemplate.
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Buyers remorse. How sweet it sounds.
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seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-20-09 11:45 AM
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3. WTF
This no less from one of the most utterly insane creatures to walk the planet. :lmao:
What`s the matter DUmmies?
You really thought you mattered?
You really thought you were being listened to?
You really thought that all the perceived inequities you obsess over were going to be done away with and the keys to the golden city were going to be handed to you?
You really are that stupid aren`t you?
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I thought this fitted in quite nicely here: :-)
biopowertoday (870 posts) Sat Mar-21-09 05:57 PM
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Obama Uneasy About Tax on Bonuses
Source: nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/politics/21bailout...
March 21, 2009
Obama Uneasy About Tax on Bonuses
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
WASHINGTON — The White House stopped short on Friday of endorsing legislation to severely tax bonuses paid to executives of companies that accepted taxpayer bailout funds.
SNIP
960 (225 posts) Sat Mar-21-09 06:01 PM
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1. Duh. The administration is who snuck the bonuses in to start with.
Talk about faux outrage.... the WH claiming they didn't know and were angry about the bonuses is the faux outrage. They knew all about it because they put them in the bill.
Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 06:32 PM
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4. Pastiche Uneasy About Obama
rollingrock (425 posts) Sat Mar-21-09 06:40 PM
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5. I'm uneasy too
about this administration being in the pocket of Wall Street.
AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 10:04 PM
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11. Obama knows it is unconstitutional
He hopes it will blow over before the bill passes the Senate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3793840
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This no less from one of the most utterly insane creatures to walk the planet. :lmao:
What`s the matter DUmmies?
You really thought you mattered?
You really thought you were being listened to?
You really thought that all the perceived inequities you obsess over were going to be done away with and the keys to the golden city were going to be handed to you?
You really are that stupid aren`t you?
What the Little Goons actually think (thought) was that every single person, real or fictitious, who voted for The Big Zero thinks EXACTLY like they do. They are so absorbed inside their ideological daydream/nightmare that any confrontation with reality drives them to say "WTF?".
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 10:04 PM
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11. Obama knows it is unconstitutional
He hopes it will blow over before the bill passes the Senate.
Ah! The All-Wise Zero! He's playing it "close to his vest". He's "getting his ducks in a row".....sound familiar?
If Zero was a true leader, a man of character, an American for gawd's sake, he would come right out a say it is UNCONSTUTIONAL.
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The stupid must hurt daily for this moron. :thatsright: Oh and DUmmie we have a Representative Republic and NOT a Democracy.
CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 02:21 PM
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68. That's what I sense too...
I believe in Obama. He's a moral man.
I think the cabal that has taken over our democracy--installed Geithner, Paulson and several
members of his cabinet. I don't think they were Obama's choices.
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A corrupt, narcissistic, incompetent, affirmative action person as president, what could go wrong?
Everything.....100% of all.
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 02:21 PM
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68. That's what I sense too...
I believe in Obama. He's a moral man.
I think the cabal that has taken over our democracy--installed Geithner, Paulson and several
members of his cabinet. I don't think they were Obama's choices.
Yeah, better some ridiculous conspiracy theory than have to face the fact that 0 is weak and stupid.
Cindie
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 02:21 PM
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68. That's what I sense too...
I believe in Obama. He's a moral man.
I think the cabal that has taken over our democracy--installed Geithner, Paulson and several
members of his cabinet. I don't think they were Obama's choices.
"I believe in Obama. He's a moral man." << Then you are an idiot X2. Obama is about the least "moral" person to ever take the oath of office. He's a closet homosexual and out-front Godless liberal. He'a a liar and an anti-American puppet.
"I think the cabal that has taken over our democracy--installed Geithner, Paulson and several
members of his cabinet. I don't think they were Obama's choices." << Thanks for proving my point, Little Goon. If what we say is true, then what good is Barrack Obama to anyone except his puppetmasters? He certainly isn't any prize for you DUmbasses.
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The stupid must hurt daily for this moron. :thatsright: Oh and DUmmie we have a Representative Republic and NOT a Democracy.
CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-21-09 02:21 PM
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68. That's what I sense too...
I believe in Obama. He's a moral man.
I think the cabal that has taken over our democracy--installed Geithner, Paulson and several
members of his cabinet. I don't think they were Obama's choices.
That is in the top 10 most stupid things I have read at DU. :lmao:
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Yeah, Bijou, I thought I had the winner picked this morning, but this quote takes today's prize. It has it all: conspiracy, denial, "sensing" (vs. fact), sheer blindness. It should be dropped into the hat for the year-end prizes.
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Yeah, better some ridiculous conspiracy theory than have to face the fact that 0 is weak and stupid.
Cindie
Occams Razor is a completely foreign concept to the DUmmies.
KC
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The stupid must hurt daily for this moron. :thatsright: Oh and DUmmie we have a Representative Republic and NOT a Democracy.
they just cannot admit that Obama is doing this. It must be something else!
He is a Facist. period.
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That is in the top 10 most stupid things I have read at DU. :lmao:
We should have a "How far can a DUmmie stick it's head up it's ass" prize.
Damn these "people" need to go away.