In a 328-93 roll call today, the House passed legislation for a 'recovery' tax on AIG employee bonuses and other firms bailed out by taxpayers. 87 Republicans and 6 Democrats voted against the measure. F.James Sensenbrenner was the lone congressman from Wisconsin to vote 'no.'
The 93 congressmen who voted to allow AIG employees to keep their bonuses should resign or commit suicide. Rhetorically speaking of course.
Story from Politico.com.
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Thanks for your continually excellent posts.
Another take on the Bailout gaining a bit of traction appears at SLATE, where Eliot Spitzer blogs about:
http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/ The Real AIG Scandal
and a companion piece I found at Alternet:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/132547/was_eliot_spitzer_taken_out_because_he_was_going_to_bust_aig/
Can Geithner, bring on Spitzer.
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