White House Sneer from ‘Thug’ Barney Frank: Who Cares AIG Families’ Lives Are Threatened?
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 18, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Barney Frank, Congressman & House Financial Services Committee Chairman, doing what he does best: pointing fingers & protecting other Dems on the Hill
Not only is the whole debacle of the AIG bonus payments a contrived diversion of the Democrats, but the threatened lives of private citizens and their families is being treated with a “so what?” attitude. Kinda like the cocky criminals’ attitudes before Horatio Caine busts them on CSI Miami.
Democrats are scrambling and feigning outrage because NO REPUBLICANS approved this bailout. The mess is all theirs. It’s all Obama’s.
They don’t know what to do except attack AIG. Not Barney Frank, not Nancy Pelosi, not Harry Reid, not Tim Geithner, not Chris Dodd (who personally WROTE the AIG bonus protection loophole text), not Congress – they all screwed up in writing a proper bailout with proper oversight and ironing out problems. I can hear them now in my head: “We’ve really stepped in the cow patties with this one, what should we do to throw attention off us? Hey, let’s let AIG take the fall on this one, guys! ‘Big bad corporation’ sound bites could work? Unanimous? Cool, let’s feed this first to that sycophant airhead Katie Couric to see how it plays in Boston and Frisco. Get someone to whip up some good old-fashioned outrage for Obama’s teleprompter. Throw in a bit of ‘Ronald Reagan,’ if possible.”
And so, now, according to Obama’s ongoing, adoring mainstream media coverage, AIG is alone in the blame for this. They are scum and deserve anything that Frank and his minions dish out to them (Can you shift that knife in my back up a little, Barney? Hey, thanks, man!)
Audacious.
Let us remember: THEY wrote the bailout (with Obama’s favorite tax cheat, Tim “Wonder-Blunder Boy” Geithner, in charge of authoring it), THEY included in it that the AIG bonuses were protected, THEY are now running from this volcano of public outrage like guilty little boys and girls who broke a neighbor’s window while playing baseball in the street. “Not me, not me, I didn’t do it!” they scream when caught. Then the fingers start pointing wildly. And AIG is on the hot seat, a publicized witch hunt, even though they are honoring contracts to pay the bonuses (contracts were written in 2007), and, there is PROTECTION for the bonuses specifically included in the bailout.
Believe me, they’re trying to sneak that damning text out before the regular public notices. And Pres. Obama is being the Prince of Outraged Cluelessness, claiming he had NO idea about any of this. Liar. It’s been in the bill for months, AIG told Congress ages ago about the obligatory bonuses, and the bailout writers included protection that AIG could pay them out. But, now, HA! Forget everything we said and we did as we revise history to protect our butts from public outcry. And if you don’t get everyone to give back the bonus money, well… it won’t be pretty, my dear. We’ll invent scary new tax laws to TAKE IT ALL back… mwha-ha-ha-ha-ha! We’re the government… don’t mess with us, EVER.
When House Financial Service Committee Chairman Barney Frank demanded that AIG Chairman and CEO Edward Liddy provide a list of names of all the people who received AIG bonuses to him and his committee, assurance that those people would be protected and not have their names revealed WAS DENIED by Frank. Yes, DENIED. In fact, Frank was really enjoying this… the Spanish Inquisition ended before he was born, but he’s getting his jollies at role play now. Frank irritatedly dismissed the direness of a death threat letter to an AIG family. The letter said the family should be executed with piano wire around their necks.
Frank’s response to this horrifying threat? He sneered, scoffed, and shrugged, saying “everyone gets those kind of letters.”
WHAT??! He did NOT just say that, tell me he did not…
Maybe Barney Frank gets death threat letters all the time – Lord knows he and his weaselly cronies have earned them. But they are public figures. They have access to top-notch security and protection and the admitted lack of privacy that government officials and pop stars and major league baseball players all have in common – it’s part of the “fame and fortune” mantle. The AIG families ARE NOT public figures.
I have never gotten a death threat letter before. Have you? Believe me, I’d be freaked out. These people could just as likely be your own family or mine or a friend’s, with children and normal lives that have been crushed and turned upside down. Is it just me, or does it seem that Washington officials are getting more and more “Kremlin-like” or “Gestapo-like”?
Any death threat letter, no matter who receives it, must be taken seriously. Unless, per Frank’s flippant assessment, it’s an AIG family. Then, heck, who cares, right, Barney?
Barney Frank, you’re a nasty, despicable piece of work… hitting a stunningly new low. How could someone in such a position of entrusted power say such a dehumanizing thing to Liddy, or any US citizen, who is trying to protect the lives of his company’s employees and their families? A shrug and sneer? What in the heck is that, you cretin? You’ve shown more compassion for the treatment of murderous, drug-trafficking illegal aliens and other criminals (who are registered Democrats, of course) than for these innocent families.
Has our entire government become an arrogant group of sneering thugs, diminishing and devaluing the fears and very lives of its nation’s citizens? Is this another hefty, yummy scoop of the “hope and change” Obama promised?
This is NOT the way an elected official, a servant of the people, should address a public citizen in the United States of America. It’s like we’re watching The Godfather, Part IV. But Americans aren’t as stupid as Frank or Pelosi or Reid would like to think. Things are starting to look mighty grim for Obama’s team of inept, wastrel clowns.
Links to several Michelle Malkin’s blog posts, with more up-to-the-minute information as this debacle develops:
From The Hill: All of the people should be executed with piano wire around their neck
Liveblogging the public flogging: Liddy and the indignant enablers; will returning half of bonuses mollify?
Chris Dodd confesses: Yes, I slipped in the AIG bonus protection…’cuz Treasury made me
Frugal Café Blog Zone: AIG: Demons or Fall Guys with Those Exec Bonuses?
GayPatriot: The Best Thing Barney Frank Could Do For Gay People…
NY Times: The Case for Paying Out Bonuses at A.I.G.
Hot Air: Dodd: You know, now I remember adding that bonus language; Update: CNN says Dodd “lied”
The American Pundit: Bawney Fwank Dismisses AIG Death Threats
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Are You Kidding Me? Geithner Didn’t Know About AIG Bonuses
Vets On The Watch: Dress Warm, Hell Is Freezing Over
NORMAL, National Organization of Real American Men and Women Against Liberalism: Barney Frank – The Corrupt Congressman You Should Know About
Russ. Just Russ.: And by the Way…
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Well, it might be a good thing to put things in perspective for fairness’ sake. Such a majority of people in our Nation did not get a bonus last year, most did not even get a raise. Our worries and concern about AIG: they cheated. All of them. Those who wrote the loophole, those who let it pass and those who, in the end, are trying to take advantage of it at our expense and the expense of our children.
If the IRS collects our taxes and our Government (left and right alike) uses our money to bail out AIG, I expect, in return that AIG, via the Government, will give money to bail us out.
No. They keep our money and play with it, patting each other on the back “We done good”, ‘em taxpayer robbers.
We were brought up with values that AIG and the likes are trampling like cow dung: That is what is wrong.
This valueless attitude is rampant in recent years.
So maybe those of their employees who only make $85,000 a year could use a bonus… it still is our money and badly needed at the moment, by those of us who don’t even get $18,000, i.e., not enough money and no bonus to feed a family of four. Those of us who have lived, or are living, or are about to live the forclosure process do not have time to worry about AIG’s bonuses.
It enrages us and and we know there is nothing we can do about it.