Comments on: Monday Hot Read – Jon Ward’s “Paul Ryan explains his votes for TARP, bailouts and tax on AIG bonuses”

By: Soapbox Jill

Soapbox Jill — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:16:44 +0000

With just 6 hours to decide about AIG, who could do better?
But let this be a lesson to Ryan and others that trying to “punish” corporations can easily backfire in house/senate dominated by capitalism-haters, and perhaps keeping it a bit more pure and simple would end up better, or not. (It’s a six of one, half-a-dozen of the other thing.)

By: Soapbox Jill

Soapbox Jill — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:14:34 +0000

With just 6 hours to decide about AIG, who could do better?
But let this be a lesson to Ryan and others that trying to “punish” corporations can easily backfire, and perhaps keeping it a bit more pure and simple would end up better. (It’s a six of one, half-a-dozen of the other thing.)

By: dad29

dad29 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:16:03 +0000

That AIG thing ‘splanation also makes it clear that “purity” is not so simple.

There was a lot of ‘inside baseball’ Congressional crap involved in that vote; Ryan had good reasons to go either way. IOW, it was not simply whether/not limiting compensation. It was also an issue of keeping the (D) rats’ feet to the fire.