Monday, March 30, 2009
Pitchfork time!
Today there is outrage over the Obama administration's firing of GM CEO Rick Wagoner. Justified anger! Incipient fascism! It's the end of capitalism, and I was reminded that these free-marketeers were equally outraged when the noted Marxist Bush also fired the CEOs of publicly traded American corporations:
Oooh, remember? And yet, strangely, I am having a hard time finding right-wing garment-rending over these events. Why is that?
The U.S. government has previously requested the replacement of chief executive officers at American International Group Inc., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when they received aid.
Then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson replaced Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and Freddie Mac’s Richard Syron when he put the two mortgage-finance companies into government conservatorship in September. AIG chief Robert Willumstad left after a government rescue the same month.
Oooh, remember? And yet, strangely, I am having a hard time finding right-wing garment-rending over these events. Why is that?
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