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July 1st, 2009

Today's "Yeah, what he said"

  • Jul. 1st, 2009 at 8:37 AM
mike says huh
Found via Balloon Juice. If you get past the dirty words in Matt Taibbi's blog post on True Slant, you find gems like this:

Anyway this teabag thing has really gotten out of control. It’s amazing, literally amazing to me, that it wasn’t until Obama pushed through a package containing a massive public works package and significant homeowner aid that conservatives took to the streets. In other words, it wasn’t until taxes turned into construction jobs and mortgage relief that working and middle-class Americans decided to protest. I didn’t see anyone on the street when we forked over billions of dollars to help JP Morgan Chase buy Bear Stearns. And I didn’t see anyone on the street when Hank Paulson forked over $45 more billion to help Bank of America buy Merrill Lynch, a company run at the time by one of the world’s biggest assholes, John Thain. Moreover I didn’t see any street protests when the government agreed to soak up hundreds of billions in “troubled assets” from Citigroup, a company that just months later would lend out a jet furnished with pillows upholstered with Hermes scarves to former chief Sandy Weill so that he could vacation in Mexico over Christmas.
I hear Fox Not-Necessarily-the-News is trying to whip up more teabag protests over the 4th of July weekend. Uh huh. Let us know how that goes, guys.

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