Spare Us the Hypocrisy

An excerpt from Michelle Malkin's article. This in lighht of Obama
receiving big money from AIG.

ALL the world's a stage, wrote Shakespeare, and in the world of
Washington, the curtains have opened on the most elaborate farce of
the year.

Welcome, taxpayers, to the Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage - where DC's
histrionic enablers of taxpayer-funded corporate bailouts compete for
Best Performance of Hypocritical Indignation.

Over the weekend, cloaked in their finest populist costumes, the
Beltway's hair-sprayed and powdered politicians and White House aides
took to the airwaves to inveigh against $165 million in
employee-retention payments made by the government-backed insurance
giant.

The checks were mailed Friday, but the March 15 bonus deadline had
been on the Capitol Hill radar screen since December.
But it wasn't until last week that the hapless court jester of the
Obama administration, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, scrambled
to rein in the payments.

AIG Chief Executive Edward Liddy basically told him to buzz off.
Geithner, the primary architect of the original $85 billion AIG
bailout last fall, "reluctantly" approved the bonuses.
And now his outraged boss has ordered him to scour every legal nook
and cranny possible to get the money back.

Spare me President Obama's finger-wag. He's "outraged?" Meh.