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Scheduled to appear on Fox & Friends for my regular Thursday morning segment at around 8:15am Eastern. Topic is Open-Borders San Fran Nan.

Fall, fall on your sword, ye Purveyor of Hypocritical Indignation. Via CNN, unscrupulous borrower and No. 1 AIG benefactor Chris Dodd admits that yes, yes, he did support AIG bonus protections before he was against them: Senate Banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told CNN’s Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer Wednesday that he was responsible for [...]

Update: Allah’s got video. Ditto what Allah says about Frank: “What a wretch.” I noted in the public flogging liveblogging below that Rep. Barney Frank rather flippantly dismissed the death threats against AIG executives. Edward Liddy read this threat, after which Frank smirked, “I am not persuaded:” All of the people should be executed with [...]

Code Pinkos scolded, Barney Frank on a witch hunt. Ackerman: “Cut your losses.” (Photo credit: AP/YN)

Ed Morrissey: If AIG’s retention bonuses are a problem, why aren’t Freddie Mac’s? Barney Frank was unavailable for comment…

As I noted yesterday, the next big shamnesty push is underway at the White House. And Nancy Pelosi is performing her own open-borders sideshow in the House circus tent. If her rhetoric trashing federal ICE agents sounds familiar, well, it’s because Barack Obama engaged in the same smearing during the campaign — when he accused [...]

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Boogie while the Beltway burns.

My syndicated column today looks at the award-winning performances of Washington hypocrites outraged by the AIG entitlement beast they nurtured through four massive bailout infusions. For added comic relief, be sure to read through the entire transcript of Robert Gibbs’ press briefing yesterday. (It’s been sanitized. Just add 25 “ums” during every exchange on AIG [...]

Homeland insecurity alert.

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti Fox News reports that ACORN will be one of a plethora of left-wing groups “helping out” with the Census. But of course. The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year’s count, raising concerns about [...]

Yes, they are.

Bob Owens keeps his eye on the ball and breaks it down: Barack Obama’s lack of leadership in a down economy has now hit crisis proportions, as his claimed inability to block millions of dollars in bonuses for executives of bailout recipient AIG has caused even his supporters to turn on him. But while the [...]

A suggestion from reader Richard W.: Michelle, I don’t understand why AIG doesn’t just borrow the same approach Obama took to defending the $410B pork-laden spending bill he just signed in private. Seeing as how the bonuses were earned for work done in 2008, AIG should just call the bonuses, “Last year’s business” and make [...]

Nice trick: Eleven AIG employees received $1 million retention bonuses — and then left the company after collecting the cash to keep them there. How do I get in on a deal like that? *** See comments below on timing of bonuses. Point taken. See also: A reader advises AIG to take a page from [...]

Boo-freaking-hoo.

Calling bull.

Kabuki Theater of Outrage, Act III. Unscrupulous borrower Sen. Chris Dodd struts on stage. Fox Business reporter Rich Edson turns on the spotlight: Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG: 0.9768, 0.1967, 25.21%) bonus recipients so the government could recoup the $450 million the company is [...]

The wear(y)ing of the Green.

Kabuki Theater of Outrage.

“Patriot or crackpot?”

Shake and bake.

Too funny. The Obama Message Machine doesn’t want the Tea Party movement showing them up. So, they’ve sent out a mass e-mail and YouTube video link urging their cultists to go out and gather pledge signatures to support the president’s economic plan. Yep, a top-down, “grass-roots movement” directed by the DNC/Team Obama “because we can’t [...]

“The monotonous repetition of guilty verdicts…”

Advance publicity team.

Rx.

How nauseating to hear the growing chorus of lawmakers on Capitol Hill inveighing about the AIG bonuses and the rewarding of incompetence. Spare me, Barney Frank: “These people may have a right to their bonuses, they don’t have a right to their jobs forever,” Mr. Frank said, charging that the bonuses amounted to rewards for [...]

For years, the open-borders crowd has argued that a) illegal aliens are not getting free health care and b) even if they are, they are not draining government budgets. Myth, meet reality: Graciela Barrios, an undocumented immigrant with few resources, has long relied on the county health clinic for the advice, medication and tests that [...]

The Kabuki Theater of Outrage.