Friday, April 03, 2009

"We Pay You Congressman. Act Like It." (Video)

From Gateway Pundit:

"The Constitution never gave you the damn authority of telling anyone what they should make... The Constitution never gave you the authority to blythely come in here and arrogantly set pay for people you don't even know. And, you don't have the guts to come back at me and tell me what you think adequate pay range is."

Neil Cavuto
Grilling Rep. Alan Grayson
On His Bill to restrict set wages for American workers
Rep. Grayson's amendement on setting bonuses will be voted on today in the US House.
The Orlando Sentinel reported:

The U.S. House is expected to vote today on a measure aimed at halting the payout of "unreasonable and excessive" bonuses to employees of financial companies that received federal bailout money.

The bill — a brainchild of U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando — would let the Treasury Department and financial regulators set standards to avoid a repeat of the outrage over AIG, the insurance giant that paid $165 million in bonuses to executives after it got more than $180 billion in bailout funds.

"We don't want people to get rich off taxpayer funds," Grayson said.
Grayson refused to answer Cavuto's questions on his bill last night on FOX Business Channel.
Cavuto lost it.
This was GREAT!



3 comments:

christian soldier said...

10 Rs voted for this--Bilirakis
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Cao
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Duncan
Jones
McHugh
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen

AND - an R whom I thought was a true conservative -supported him via blog and e-mails for the last election-have known him-politically for many years --Tom McClintock!!!-voted for the last debacle...guess what-he has lost this Californian's support!!!
The R party has lost many of us in the US...
C-CS

Epaminondas said...

These people are afraid of, or want to HARNESS public anger.

Cowards and demagogues.

If we elected 468 other people in 2010 could we really do worse ..just VOTE FOR THE OTHER GUYS AND GALS

Cavuto was up there with Oreilly/Frank and Oreilly/Rivera

You can see how REAL this was.

Pastorius said...

Yeah, no shit.

And, as far as I can tell, the profanity Cavuto used was the word "damn".

Too much for Grayson's tender ears? I wonder how the tar and feathers will feel?