Comments on: Bonus Limits Obama Cut From Stimulus

By: polemos

polemos — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:39:21 +0000

Wyden is my senator. Nice safe seat here in liberal left coast.

By: canary

canary — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:40:09 +0000

I’m a bit confused. Obama didn’t want any of the bonuses to be taxed? I thought an employer takes an automatic 1/3 out of bonuses given (meaning the employee doesn’t get the full amount) , and then the individual put’s in the amount allready taken out, as a deduction, to see if they can get more of the deduction back, that was already done.
Well, one thing I’m not confused about is a President making a terrorist joke about AIG committing suicide. What happened to good ole Lawyers and Preacher jokes.

Lawyer joke.
The Truck Driver and the Priest

A truck driver amused himself by running over lawyers as they walked down the side of the road. Every time he saw a lawyer walking along the road, he would swerve to hit him. There would be a loud “thud”, and then he would swerve back on the road.

As the truck driver drove along one day, he saw a priest hitch hiking, he pulled over and asked the priest, “Where are you going, Father?”

The priest said he was on his way to his church up the road.

“I’ll give you a lift”

The priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued down the road. Suddenly, the truck driver saw a lawyer walking down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. At the last minute, he remembered he had a priest in the truck and swerved back onto the road. Even though he knew he missed the lawyer, he still heard a loud “thud.” Unsure of where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors. When he didn’t see anything, he turned to the priest and said, “I’m sorry, Father. I almost hit a lawyer.”

The priest replied, “That’s OK, I got him with the door.”

By: Celina

Celina — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:41:12 +0000

I guess this is what happens when you sign something before you actually read it? Under the best of circumstances that is probably what happened. Honestly, he had to have known this was coming. I am amazed at how many of his acolytes still think the man craps sweet basil.

By: TwilightZoned

TwilightZoned — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:50:55 +0000

“And yet Mr. Obama insists he is not to blame.”

Hummm…Seems to me O make these campaign promises: 1. Everything would be out in the open, even being posted on a special website for 5 days for Americans to review. 2. He would go through bills/budget line-by-line to look for wasteful spending, etc.

Since both promises were broken it DOES make YOU, Mr. President, responsible. A REAL grown-up understands the phrase “the buck stops here.” Grow up!

By: Weasel

Weasel — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:55:23 +0000

So Obama, Dodd and the rest of the “dims” were for the bonuses before they were against them…

And I’m not a Constitutional law expert (and apparently neither is Obama or any of the “dims” in congress), but doesn’t Article 1 Section 9 say, “No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”???

This has unconstitutional written all over it. I sure hope the SCOTUS gives them a major league thumping!

By: proreason

proreason — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:10:39 +0000

“And yet Mr. Obama insists he is not to blame.”

It’s not myyyyyyyyyy fault. Georgey hit me before I hit him. And he took my toy too. And he called you a bad name. And he broke Sally’s doll yesterday.

By: Consilience

Consilience — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:48:18 +0000

Steve, as always, excellent and informative post. The rage being manufactured by TAO is geared toward the nitwits he’s is asking to “pledge” to proselytize his budget…this man and his co conspirators in Congress are a menace. The mindless nitwits who follow on TAO’s every word and don’t have real jobs and want the gov’t to take care of their every need—-they NEED something to hate to occupy their small, public-educated-minds—-these folks are to be pitied—but not so much as to allow them to wreck our Republic.