Grassley has suggested that AIG executives should commit suicide. That is an inexcusably irresponsible comment. He should resign.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-aig-grassley0317,0,752276.story
I think the juxtaposition between arguments like this saying individuals should take personal responsibility for something, and the government’s huge new programs absolving individuals of ever more responsibility for their own lives, is funny.
Seppuku…sounds about right.
The shame is that someone had to jump in to clarify his statements. Up until then he had me at hello.
I have opposed the bailouts from the very beginning and I agree that these fools who argue for personal responsibility while bailing out those “too big to fail” are foul.
What troubles me most is that Grassley is a member of a very limited club in whom we place a tremendous amount of trust and responsibility. We should be able to do better than this moron who thinks suicide is an answer, even if he now tries to back away from it.
So in a fit of anger he says the wrong thing…give me a break. I don’t know anything about him personally, but it sounds like to me he is human. The fact that you are making such a big deal about this is very telling.
What we need is many more people to get angry. What did G. Liddy call it, the “pussification of America”.
When was the last time you got so angry you suggested anyone should commit suicide?
I find it telling that you think someone could legitimately get so angry over the AIG bailout that they would suggest that people commit suicide? It is even more telling that you think it is OK for one of the 100 most powerful people in our federal government to be so constituted.
Grassley has suggested that AIG executives should commit suicide. That is an inexcusably irresponsible comment. He should resign.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/...y0317,0,752276.story
I should quit too because I was thinking they should be hanged as an example to the rest of the Wall St. crooks.
What if you think that if it is good for the Goose at AIG it is good for the Gander of many in Congress?
He needs a giant Iowa corn cob in his big fat pie hole.
Hell, if everytime somebody said something stupid they lost their job, Joe Biden would be perpetually unemployed.
I’m not seeing how that is irresponsible at all.
It is a bit obnoxious, but I like it.
Grassley has suggested that AIG executives should commit suicide. That is an inexcusably irresponsible comment. He should resign.
Hell, if everytime somebody said something stupid they lost their job, Joe Biden would be perpetually unemployed.
And that would be a bad thing?
your rightousness is as laughable as the comment itself. However, when presented without context - as you have - it does sound pretty bad. When you throw in the rest of it…hari-kari, honor resignation, etc. then it softens it, albeit only it a limited way.
If you are so concerned about the members of this ‘very limited club in whome we place a temendous amount of trust and responsibility’ then you must have a very long list of Senators - both sides of the aisle, past and present - that should/should have resigned. I’m guessing, however, that your list is limited to Republicans who say stupid things…
The real problem is that our senators and congressmen played a role in the mess that AIG is in, among other issues. Senator Grassley should probably kill himself first to set a good example
your rightousness is as laughable as the comment itself. However, when presented without context - as you have - it does sound pretty bad. When you throw in the rest of it…hari-kari, honor resignation, etc. then it softens it, albeit only it a limited way.
If you are so concerned about the members of this ‘very limited club in whome we place a temendous amount of trust and responsibility’ then you must have a very long list of Senators - both sides of the aisle, past and present - that should/should have resigned. I’m guessing, however, that your list is limited to Republicans who say stupid things…
I’m guessing, however, that your list is limited to Republicans who say stupid things…
No, not really. I am a registered Republican. Last Democrat I supported was Jimmy Carter. Learned my lesson then. It is more that I have been to three funerals of people who committed suicide in the last five years. One was a father of four who lost his executive position with a national shoe chain. The other two were teens who were having troubles beyond what any of us could comprehend or recognize. So, yeah, maybe I am more sensitized to this than others. Couple that with the report that at least one person committed suicide over the Madoff scandal, and I maintain that Grassley was dangerously irresponsible with these comments and should resign. Making political points at the risk of sending someone over the edge is foul.
Just wait for the first AIG employee to kill themselves, and then see how quickly and how big the law suit is that the family files against the Senator.
The remarks were tasteless, and even if he was thinking them, a professional politician should have known better than to say them out loud.
The remarks were tasteless, and even if he was thinking them, a professional politician should have known better than to say them out loud.
I agree. And what is likely worse is that he probably is not even all that angry. This was a chance for him to make a grand stand move and he took it. I hope it backfires.
What is so bad about sending someone over the edge? We have plenty of people.
and yeah, I’ve had friends who have committed suicide too. It sucks be I’m really not going to cry if Grassley manages to start a culture of ritual suicide in this country. It is crude but better than ritual theft and greed =)
I’m guessing, however, that your list is limited to Republicans who say stupid things…
Couple that with the report that at least one person committed suicide over the Madoff scandal, and I maintain that Grassley was dangerously irresponsible with these comments and should resign. Making political points at the risk of sending someone over the edge is foul.
What is so bad about sending someone over the edge?
I am assuming that you don’t know how to use pink font. Based on that assumption, I won’t bore you with why it is bad to send someone over the edge. And I won’t bore you with how difficult it is to explain to a fifth grade boy why his best friend’s dad hung himself in the basement. Or how to console the father of a 19 year old young woman I used to coach who put a bullet through her head on the family’s front lawn. Or what to say to the parents of a 20 year old young man I volunteered with who killed himself at school. Instead, I will just assume that you don’t know how to use pink font.
Pretty stupid comment, by a Senator who is generally well respected on both sides of the aisle. Is he your Senator? He’s mine, and my hope would be that he continue to serve in that role.