Republicans Were Against Limiting Exec. Pay Before They Were For It!

[Facial_King]

Fun stuff:

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_...-were-against-it-before-they-were-for-it.aspx

Excerpt:

"I really don't want the government to take over these businesses and start telling them everything about what they can do." Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told ABC News in February, when asked about Obama's proposed limits on executive compensation. Senator Jim DeMint, who attacked the original bailout bill as "pure socialism," characterized executive pay caps as a dangerous government intervention. "I think it's a sad day in America when the government starts setting pay, no matter how outlandish they [sic] are," DeMint told the Huffington Post. "This is just a symptom of what happens when the government intervenes and we start controlling all aspects of the economy." DeMint's right-wing compatriot, James Inhofe, also equated limits on compensation with the demise of the American way. "As I was listening to [Obama] make those statements I thought, is this still America? Do we really tell people how to run [a business], and who to pay, and how much to pay?"

A mere six weeks later, DeMint and Inhofe are now attacking the administration for failing to curb these executive payouts. In a long diatribe delivered on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Inhofe abandoned his earlier defense of businesses to make their own decisions about compensation to express his "deep anger" over the pay. "I don't know how someone at AIG giving out or receiving a bonus right now can look at themselves in the mirror," Inhofe thundered on the floor. "You can be sure that we will do all we can to right this wrong and get these bonuses back." DeMint has also found ways to channel his newfound anger against corporate pay.

 

[marquis2]

Times change, situations alter and only a fool maintains the same stance while it happens.

 

[Torre82]

::goes over to my mini-library and dusts off a copy of the Republican Handbook::

Lessee.. page 1. Open mouth very wide. Say something the conservatives will agree with. Keeping mouth open, put your own foot in it. Repeat.

Well. That sounds about right. Okay, now..

Page 2: In case foot will not reach mouth, You Might want to consider taking up some of those commie liberal yoga classes to enhance your flexibility. During these classes you will have to alter your views to mix in with the democratic state of mind. You will get practice lying and keeping your mouth shut, so it is useful for the republic of Amurrica.

Page 3: When foot is in mouth, make sure it is all captured on some public medium.. press conference, interviews.. so long as the public hears it and rallies around you. While they're celebrating an earlier comment, you say the second part of it.. which only the bleeding heart liberals will hear and rip you a new one. But only in a pacifist... nonviolent way. Blogs and message boards, mostly.