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Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:00 AM

Republicans and executive compensation limits

The GOP's attempts to blame Dodd and the Obama administration for the AIG bonuses scale all new heights of deceit.
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  • Thursday, March 19, 2009 08:13 AM

    @frankly0

    ...the populist anger being fueled by these bonuses does present an opportunity for enterprising Republicans.

    Those enterprising Republicans might need to change their platform though. I'm not sure advocating unfettered capitalism (the very thing that allowed for this debacle) helps their cause.

    —mutex Read mutex's other letters

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