Reflection??!! Are You Kidding Me?

DOJ officials, at the very least, should answer for their war crimes:

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Outraged: CEO Pay at TARP $$ Recipients

Do you want to really DO something meaningful?

Well, go to: http://aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/tarp.cfm . There you will find that the largest corporate recipient (CITI Bank) of our TARP tax dollars through the scam foisted on us by Hank Paulson and George Bush was ALSO the CEO who had the highest compensation in 2008!

Yes, Vikram Pandit of CITI Bank received OVER $38,000,000 in compensation in 2008 while his company was apparently in imminent danger of collapse ... hence the need to accept $50,000,000,000 in TARP funds. (Oh, yea, and this guy was caught trying to spend some number of $millions REMODELING his offices!)

This is an outrage regardless of whether you are a 'Democrat', 'Republican' or ... whatever.

Please get involved!

(You do remember, don't you, that in October 2008 Hank Paulson came to congress on a Thursday and said he needed the $700,000,000,000 for TARP ... OR ELSE the entire American financial system would FAIL by the following Monday, don't you? Obama ... INHERITED ... this scam to defraud our country. He didn't create it.)

A Day in the Life of "Joe Republican"

I heard this again today on the Thom Hartmann radio show. It truly is worthy of thoughful consideration ... particularly by my "self-made" Republican blue-collar friends:

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Editor's note: This is an email that has floated around the internet since at least 2004. As many of us prepare our state and federal tax forms and pay our taxes, we should think about some things we take for granted.]

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Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.


All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.


He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.


In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.


Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.


He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.


Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union.


If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.


It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the (Republican!) Great Depression.


Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.


Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads.


He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans.


The house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.


He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to.


Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”

Help Gov. Siegelman

I received the the letter below from Gov. Siegelman this morning. Please read it. Then, look into your heart and help.

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I need your help on a critical issue. Time is of the essence. I'm asking that you email influential editors and Attorney General Eric Holder. Attorney General Holder recently abandoned the conviction against former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R). His decision had nothing to do with the merits of the Stevens case, but was based on misconduct on the part of the Department of Justice. Attorney General Holder did the right thing.It's been a long time since we have seen the DOJ act courageously.

Attorney General Holder's action gives me hope that justice can be restored and our democracy can be preserved.

An important difference between the Stevens case and my case is that I was not accused of taking even a penny for myself. In my case there are many instances of government wrongdoing. American Trial Lawyer Magazine tagged me as America's number one "Political Prisoner," Time Magazine said I was a victim of selective prosecution, and CBS's 60 Minutes exposed that the government used false testimony to convict me and withheld critical documents from my lawyers. The House Judiciary Committee even has sworn testimony that Karl Rove was involved in my prosecution as well as other serious prosecutorial misconduct.

Attorney General Holder threw out the case against Ted Stevens because the government withheld information that could have been critical to the outcome of Senator Stevens' trial.

There's far more prosecutorial misconduct in my case than in the Stevens case. Please read this letter from my lawyer to the Attorney General (PDF) which outlines some of those areas of misconduct.

After reading the letter, please email the following editors commending Eric Holder for helping to restore justice by dropping the charges against Senator Stevens but suggesting that the gross prosecutorial misconduct in my case far exceeds the misconduct in the Stevens case. Tell them the Attorney General should investigate my case and that, when he does, he will find it cries out for justice and should also be dismissed.

Please email your comments to:
Adam Cohen, Editorial Page Editor of the New York Times at adam@nytimes.com
Fred Hiatt, Editorial Page Editor of the Washington Post at hiattf@washpost.com
Bruce Dold, Editorial Page Editor of the Chicago Tribune at brucedold@tribune.com
Cynthia Tucker, Editorial Page Editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitutional at Cynthia@ajc.com

I am also asking that you write to Attorney General Holder at AskDOJ@usdoj.gov to express your support for his courageous step toward restoring justice and encourage him to help right the wrongs in my case as well.
Sincerely,
Don SiegelmanGovernor of Alabama 1999-2003

P.S. The cost of my legal defense has been an extraordinary burden on me and on my family. If you are so inclined, please contribute to my Legal Defense Fund by clicking here. Thank you so much for your continued support in these difficult times.