If the Law Doesn’t Protect EVERYBODY, It Can’t Protect ANYBODY

This week I spoke to Mr. Blumenthal about his actions to block American International Group—AIG—from paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses. I’ve made it very clear that I don’t like the idea of bonuses being paid out to a company that needed your and my tax dollars to bail them out, but I also respect the law above revenge. Those AIG employees are contractually entitled to that money—I don’t like it any more than you do, but it’s true. Here’s a bit of the conversation I had with the Attorney General:

BECK: OK. You know, the one thing I was going through the interviews with you, and nobody has asked this question and I’m just dying to know. And I know you will have the answer - what law did the AIG executives break when they took those bonuses that were mandated by a legal contract?

BLUMENTHAL: The AIG executives did not themselves break a contract.

BECK: So then why were you going after them?

BLUMENTHAL: Well, we’re not going after them.

BECK: No, you were.

BLUMENTHAL: We’re going after the bonuses.

BLUMENTHAL: Well, you know, again, these funds belong to us taxpayers

Then later…

BLUMENTHAL: Well, you know, let’s be clear on what’s happening with the bonuses. These bonuses are actually increasing in amount. Going into next year, they will be $200 million…

BECK: Oh, my gosh. Is that against the law?

BLUMENTHAL: … in bonuses.

BECK: Is that against the law?

BLUMENTHAL: Well, it is against public policy and it is unsanctioned by law…

BECK: Is that against the law?

BLUMENTHAL: It should be against the law.

BECK: Is it against the law?

BLUMENTHAL: It’s against the public policy…

BECK: It is a yes or no question.

BLUMENTHAL: … and against the taxpayers - in my view, it is unrequired…

BECK: Counselor, it is a yes or no question. Is it against the law? Yes or no.

BLUMENTHAL: It is not against the law and I have never said that it is against the law, and I have never said that we would take action.

It took a long time to get there, but Attorney General Blumenthal finally admitted that his whole crusade has nothing to do with the law. He may be a lawyer, but he’s also a politician—this is little more than opportunistic grandstanding…seizing a moment for himself and his own career under the guise of serving the people of Connecticut.
It stinks.


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So Dems are going after AIG execs all though no one has done anything wrong.

 

That's right.They approved it and the denounced it. It now appears they wanted to create an issue. I wonder why? Could it be so that they could react this way and do what they are now doing?