Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter<\/a> to get mad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
…but he always looks<\/em> good doing it.<\/p>\n
As he watches the fury of ordinary Americans bubble up at those who continue to plunder our economy, he should keep in mind one of my dad\u2019s favorite Gaelic sayings: \u201cNever bolt the door with a boiled carrot.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the White House on Monday, the president read reporters some tough talk from the teleprompter about the chuckleheads at A.I.G., accusing them of \u201crecklessness and greed.\u201d<\/p>\n
But it was his own boiled carrots who acted shocked at bonuses that they should have known were coming, and should have dismantled before handing A.I.G. another $30 billion two weeks ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I don’t have a ton of time today to put my usual snark on this…but it’s a pretty good take on the veneer that is our President and his Cabinet, who have apparently been caught by this whole AIG debacle with their pants down (pun intended).<\/p>\n
For the first time since last fall’s election<\/a>, Democrats and the Obama administration are backpedaling furiously on an issue easily understood by financially strapped taxpayers: $165 million in bonuses paid out at bailed-out AIG.<\/p>\n
Gone are the days when they could merely bludgeon the Bush administration and promise to seek bipartisan solutions to the nation’s economic problems.<\/p>\n
Now, in control of the White House and Congress, they are struggling to come up with an explanation for what no one in either party seems moved to defend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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