A new level of low

I disagree with the current administration and the politics that back it on virtually everything. I think the campaigning for this election was underhanded and graceless and I think that the American people are not only being fed, but also eating lies. But I watched scapegoating on TV today and I think this is a new level of low from our current “leaders.” I don’t intend to go off on the AIG “scandal” for too long or to dissect or quote people on the subject. But has anybody been watching Congress tear Liddy apart on the subject of AIG? Congress has turned AIG (and its questionable integrity) into a scapegoat to hide its own huge mistakes which involved:
1) throwing bailout funding (money that, incidentally, doesn’t even exist in America)around like it’s Monopoly money when they shouldn’t have approved any money to go out to begin with, and
2) not explicitly stating what the receivers of the money were and were not allowed to do with it.

AIG’s use of bailout money is not the problem we are facing; the problem is the bailout itself. And everyone (some with excruciating slowness) is beginning to notice. Now, realizing their own horrendous mistake, Congress has decided to find a conveniently big name like AIG and try to bring it down with the support of the taxpayers by framing it to look like it is AIG’s fault that the government stole and negligently used taxpayer money. It’s a beautiful thing: a whole slew of Congressmen against Liddy, asking him obscene questions that he can’t answer because if he does they will tear him (or his associates) further apart for the way he worded something or for some promise he made that he didn’t actually make but that they can make it look like he made. Liddy actually said (okay I am going to quote) “I’m sorry to be so evasive, but…” (and he went on to explain his concern for his associates’ safety if he revealed names and other information). When was the last time we heard a politician or corporate head or any other big shot ADMIT that he was being evasive and then explicitly explain why he was being evasive for good cause? It indicates to me that Liddy is still a human being which is more than I can say for the majority of Congress sitting “stone cold dead” on their high horses trying to make AIG look bad so that nobody will notice their own failures. And the bald guy yells at Liddy (actually interrupts him with), “YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE EVASIVE…” And all I can think is that this guy must have done something really terrible because anyone who is that passionate about bringing someone else (who is not even guilty) down must have a lot of his own hide resting on it.

So President Obama’s stimulus crap continues to fail (Caterpillar is still laying off tractor-loads of people) which is no big surprise to any rational human being; Congress is too stupid to insert a small clause that says, “you can only use this money for the following ten things…;” and AIG gets blamed. It’s very convenient. Because Obama stands up there comparing himself to Lincoln and people keep swooning over him and AIG is the type of Big Bad Business that everybody loves to hate. Well played. This game is a great test of the public’s intelligence.