100% Tax?

[70Chip]

This AIG thing continues to gather steam:

OpenSecrets | Before the Fall, AIG Payouts Went to Washington - Capital Eye

Dodd, Chris (D-Conn) $280,238
Bush, George W (R-Texas) $200,560
Schumer, Charles E (D-NY) $111,875
Obama, Barack (D-Ill) $107,332
McCain, John (R-Ariz) $99,249
Baucus, Max (D-Mont) $90,000
Kerry, John (D-Mass) $85,000
Johnson, Nancy L (R-Conn) $75,400
Sununu, John E (R-NH) $69,049
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) $59,515
Lieberman, Joe (I-Conn) $57,900
Rangel, Charles B (D-NY) $53,582
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R-NY) $50,250
Lazio, Rick A (R-NY) $48,600
Ensign, John (R-Nev) $44,569
Bayh, Evan (D-Ind) $43,700
Larson, John B (D-Conn) $43,000
Biden, Joseph R Jr (D-Del) $41,350
Baker, Richard (R-La) $41,032
Torricelli, Robert G (D-NJ) $39,000
D'Amato, Alfonse M (R-NY) $38,750
Carper, Tom (D-Del) $37,213

[saden1]

Everyone is on the Roster. Chuck Schumer is a weasel, always has been and will always continue to be. I'll reserve judgment on Dodd until we know more for sure.

[70Chip]

I've been following politics since I was but a child and this has all the "earmarks"* of a full blown press feeding frenzy. When they get like this they won't let up until they have exacted their pound of flesh and that means somebody loses their job. Dodd is the frontrunner from where I sit, but Geithner is a possibility too. Nobody knows him. Nobody will even miss him. Dodd is a cave-dweller in Washington-speak so he has some reserve of good will that might save him.

It's an old-fashioned populist tar and feather job and by gar it's been a while. Twain was so dead on with that scene from Huck Finn with the Duke and the Dauphin. The American people are pretty naive and they'll put up with a fair amount of bullshit, but when they've had it, they've had it and someone's going to get rid out of town on a rail.

*smug laughter