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Horribly inept Gulf oil spill response > Refudiate

Rally around the flag, boys!

Village idiot, Bill Maher, thinks the rhetoric of radio and television “entertainer” Glenn Beck is increasing “the chance for people to take horrible action” against President Obama. Like, not voting for him 4 years from now?

Meanwhile the hatred and fury Congress has whipped up to distract the public from their own incompetence has resulted in this:

The Connecticut Working Families Party this weekend has organized a bus store that will make stops at Wilton, Connecticut, AIG office as well as the security-patrolled homes of AIG execs who are fearing for their lives.

"We're going to be peaceful and lawful in everything we do," said Jon Green, the director of Connecticut Working Families. "I know there's a lot of anger and a lot of rage about what's happened. We're not looking to foment that unnecessarily, but what we want to do is give folks in Bridgeport and Hartford and other parts of Connecticut who are struggling and losing their homes and their jobs and their health insurance an opportunity to see what kinds of lifestyle billions of dollars in credit-default swaps can buy."

No, the fomenting has been accomplished already, Mr. Green. You lunatics are merely the result.

We can’t say how proud we are to have a body of elected representatives who have shifted blame for a mess they signed off on and which is now resulting in harassment and death threats. Makes us proud Americans.

Peddling "rage"

The “outrage” over the AIG bonuses is a smoke screen of the highest order - a veritable “hey, look over there!” by our esteemed leaders. Congress and this Administration now profess shock, dismay and indignation over the handing out of these bonuses – bonuses that they knew were in place and contractually- obligated last fall before any bailout money was even in place.

We’re wondering where this “outrage” was when people like Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick (the Zelig of turn-of-the-century man-made disasters) were receiving million dollar bonuses as they ran Fannie Mae into the ground?

And with respect to those lawmakers who defend their earmarks as being a mere fraction of the overall amount of the latest spending bill but throw grandstanding temper tantrums about the AIG bonuses: Are not these million dollar bonuses mere fractions of the billions that are being spent on the myriad of bailout packages approved by Congress and the President?

That this Congress and this Administration express “outrage” over anybody’s malfeasance and incompetence takes the definition of “irony” to an entirely higher level.

Just as the “Rush-as-face-of-Republican-Party” story started losing its legs with Big Media, this came along at just the right time.

But, that’s not even really the worst of it. KT has more, here.