Quote from libertad:
FASCISM.....USA Style....
WTF.....this guy gets a piece of Bush paper that says there cannot be legal action .....for what is blatantly stealing ????? Or much worse ????
Anybody had enough yet ?????
I'm not sure why you are so surprised at yet another Bush appointee who failed the American people. So Paulson got a piece of Bush paper that waived any legal recourse that could potentially come his way . . . BFD. It's the same thing that Cheney did when he got his little "piece of paper" from the Justice Department - - - signing off on water-boarding. And now you are surprised at how FACIST the Bush Administration was because of Hank Paulson's lack of ethics???
Please.
What cave have you been living in?
Apparently you never heard of Pat Wood III, either? He was the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) who was recommended for the position to George Bush via Bush's good buddy, Ken Lay... CEO of Enron.
And people wonder why Pat Wood and the Bush Administration simply turned a "blind-eye" to Enron manipulating California's power grid during the Recession in 2003.
California was only the 6th LARGEST economic power in the world at the time, but hey... that didn't stop Bush and his cronies from Texas from totally screwing California and this Country over during a Recession.
Moreover, Bush and Lay's buddy Phil Gramm, then a Texas senator helped lay the groundwork for the Enron's of the world not too mention WTI crude trading unregulated over in Dubai and London, not too mention credit default swaps "trading" OTC without any SEC oversight or regulation by spearheading the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000" and making sure that it got attached to the FY-2001 Appropriations Bill so that it was a "lock" to become law. The legislation wasn't even subjected to a committee hearing, nor a recorded vote. How convenient. A few months later Phil's wife Wendy resigns from being Chairman of the CFTC to become ( of all things ) an Enron board of director who was in charge of the audit committee! I heard that she never saw an "off-balance" sheet transaction that she didn't like. Are you freaking kidding me???
People actually DIED during some of those rolling "blackouts" in California, but Pat Wood and George Bush didn't mind. That was simply collateral damage.
How about the incompetent Donald Rumsfeld, another Bush appointee . . . or Michael Chertoff at FEMA . . . or Christopher Cox, the chairman of the SEC who sat idly by doing nothing as the Bernie Madoff's and Stanford Financials of the world ripped people off to the tune of Billions!
It was an 8 year clusterphuck by an Administration that didn't give one crap about the American people.
And some of you are actually surprised about Hank Paulson not being on the "up and up"???
Please.
Spare me your blind ignorance.
