Posted by
John Dendahl on Friday, March 27, 2009 5:17:42 PM
What could be more disgusting than watching the Roman circus in what passes for the legislative branch of American government while contemplating the complicity of that institution's membership in creating the economic mess we are having to deal with?
One stumbles across Democrat Rep. Barney Frank excoriating certain corporate executives for having been paid bonuses explicitly protected by statute via an amendment thoughtfully provided by Frank's well-oiled-by-AIG-and-other-fnancial-giants'-contributions Democrat colleague in the Senate, Chris Dodd. One stumbles across Republican Sen. Charles Grassley suggesting hara-kiri as an appropriate act for some in the same executive class. (Has Grassley thought of hara-kiri for some who sit high, mighty and hypocritical beneath the dome of the U.S. Capitol?)