Obama: Time To Keep Your Promises
Do you want to have a Republican House - and possibly Senate - come November? No? Then you better put a stop to this crap. The Fed is telling a bailout watchdog not to share documents requested as part of a House investigation into the bailout of failed insurance conglomerate American International Group Inc. A letter from the special inspector general for the financial bailout to California Rep. Darrell Issa says, the Fed “has directed us not to provide you with the documents it has provided to us.” Your own party is having none of this: Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he will issue today a subpoena to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for documents related to American International Group Inc. “This subpoena will provide the Committee with documents that will shed light on how and why taxpayer dollars were used for a backdoor bailout,” Towns said in an e-mailed statement. I know you didn’t solicit my advice, but I’m good at providing unsolicited advice in this regard. I tried to warn John McCain prior to the election that his standing with the TARP/EESA “bailout nation” BS would cost him the election, and it did.
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Obama: Time To Keep Your Promises
