{"id":944,"date":"2009-03-18T18:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T02:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=944"},"modified":"2009-03-19T06:31:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:31:36","slug":"congress-offers-entertainment-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/congress-offers-entertainment-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"I couldn&#8217;t make up &#8220;Congressman Lynch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynching_in_the_United_States\">party<\/a> CEO Liddy thinks he was invited to today.<\/p>\n<p>From today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/AIG-bonuses-Some-repaid-apf-14684169.html\">WTF?<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., angrily told the witness the contract read like &#8220;the captain and the crew of the ship reserving the lifeboats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Liddy replied that he was not at the firm when the contracts were negotiated, and said, as he has before, that he would not have approved them.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch said the terms had been put in place in December, after Liddy arrived at AIG.<\/p>\n<p>But Liddy disputed that. &#8220;I take offense, Sir,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well you take it rightly. Offense was intended,&#8221; shot back Lynch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this case, the offense is so nonsensical that a defense is hardly warranted.\u00a0 It was like watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VO87KW-jM9A\">Michael Scott<\/a> going after his nemesis.\u00a0 What is it about Massachusetts that creates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2wTE4e4sSXU\">batshit crazy congressmen<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what kind of party CEO Liddy thinks he was invited to today. From today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;WTF?&#8220;: But Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., angrily told the witness the contract read like &#8220;the captain and the crew of the ship reserving the lifeboats.&#8221; Liddy replied that he was not at the firm when the contracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irrationality","category-politics","tag-lynch-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}