Will The Real Idiots Please Stand Up!

Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), the woman who was elected to the United States Senate via the sympathy vote in 2000, after her husband, who was the original candidate, died in a plane crash a few weeks before the election, made headlines on Friday (1/30) when she called Wall Street executives “idiots’.

McCaskill said “We have a bunch of idiots on Wall Street that are kicking sand in the face of the American taxpayer.” This hissy fit was bought on by reports of huge bonuses and lavish vacations taken by executives whose companies received “bail out money” from Washington. Later in her speech McCaskill screeched “they don’t get it, these people are idiots.”

The genius was only getting warmed up though. She then proposed legislation that would limit corporate pay for executives who received TARP money to $400,000 per year. She arrived at that figure because that’s what Obama makes, and she said that the executives in question shouldn’t make more than the President. Sounds like a political discussion in a public school kindergarten class!

The media of course, is going gaga over McCaskill’s simplistic populist class-warfare statements. I think that some of the things McCaskill said were pretty idiotic, but for now, I want to focus on something else.

Since we’re on the subject of idiots, would the brave Senator McCaskill also call out some, if not most of her colleagues in the Congress for being idiots as well?

Sen. McCaskill: is it idiotic to pressure banks to loan money to people who are unqualified for a mortgage just so more “minorities” and “poor people” could own homes? That’s what her pompous and idiotic colleagues were doing for years! Were the bloated Barney Frank (D-MA) and the wretched Maxine Waters (D-CA) idiots when they both vehemently claimed that there were no problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

Congressman Frank, the Porky Pig look-a-like, was actually against more regulation for Freddie & Fannie. Imagine that – a liberal Democrat against regulation?
During a hearing in 2003 on whether there should be more regulations on the two entities, Frank said ”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis.” He also went on to say ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” Is Porky Frank an idiot or just a pathetic liar?

Then in another hearing in 2004, the aforementioned Maxine Waters, who carries a chip on her shoulder the size of the Sphinx, and a puss that can scare young children and small animals, defended Freddie & Fannie when she said “We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and particularly Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.” Is this the same “Frank” Raines who was caught cooking the books at Fannie in order to get huge bonuses for himself and his cronies? Is Ms. Waters an idiot, or just a despicable liar?

There a dozens of examples of liberal Democrats and some Republicans fiddling while our financial institutions were burning, but I don’t want to get carpel tunnel syndrome pointing all of them out right now!

Senator McCaskill and her blow-hard colleagues in Washington should look in the mirror once in a while and see what stares back at them. These idiots never take any responsibility for their part in screwing things up! They pass idiotic legislation, and then blame everyone else when it inevitably blows up in the American peoples faces. They then try to fix the first idiotic mistake with legislation that’s even more idiotic!

Are there “idiots” as Senator McCaskill, puts it, running corporations on Wall Street? Of course there are, but it’s a mere anthill of idiocy compared to the Mt. Everest of idiocy that’s in Washington D.C.