Barack Obama has been starting his days in the Oval Office much later than his predecessor, a pattern that allows him to workout and read the papers before he sends his daughters off to school. This morning, during this routine, he got peeved by the New York Times. Not by the newspaper itself, but by a story in the middle of the front page headlined, "What Red Ink? Wall St. Paid Hefty Bonuses."...
"That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful," he said about the payouts. "And part of what we're going to need is for the folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint, and show some discipline, and show some sense of responsibility."...
[From Swampland - TIME.com » Blog Archive Obama’s Biting Rebuke of Wall Street «]
On this very day when your humble Cub Reporter grudgingly -- but most graciously and with amazingly few curse words -- accepts the news from the esteemed Curmudgeon-In-Chief that there will be no raises yet again this year, and then struggles through a rugged (and often humiliating) day on the golf course (and a close encounter with an alligator on No. 6, but a brilliant, first-ever par on No. 15, a vicious dog-leg right), comes news that those slimeballs on Wall Street who caused all this misery gave themselves billions of dollars in bonuses.
Simply outrageous!
The only good news here is that the Scold-In-Chief weighed in, calling those Masters of the Universe greedy, bottom-feeding pigs, or something like that. Let's hope he follows up by sending them all to the Gitmo Country Club.
-Paul Knue
1 comment:
So we wouldn't have to close that joint in Cuba after all.
Sounds like a plan to me.
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