You simply can't make this sort of stuff up:
President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state has earned more than $8 million in salary and bonuses since January 2009 as an executive at a Wall Street bank that received a federal bailout.
Thomas R. Nides, a six-figure fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 presidential run, disclosed his compensation from Morgan Stanley in a recent filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
Mr. Nides, the company's chief operating officer, also said he remains eligible for additional bonus money at Morgan Stanley, which repaid its share of the federal bailout last year.
As deputy secretary of state for management and resources, Mr. Nides would replace Jacob Lew, who is awaiting confirmation as Mr. Obama's federal budget chief and whose own nearly $1 million bonus at bailed-out banking giant Citigroup last year came under scrutiny.
Goddamn money-grubbing, crony-capitalist, Koch Industries event attending Republican plutocrats.
Oh... Never mind.
Anyway, I eagerly await expressions of outrage from those liberal types not fully involved in burning Juan Williams at the stake.
It's a perfect fit. He took bags of taxpayer cash and passed it around Morgan Stanley as COO. In this case he'll be taking bags of taxpayers cash and passing it around as foreign aid. What's not clear is how he's going to make his end this time.
Posted by: Allen | October 21, 2010 at 06:05 PM
Wasn't he the indicted Hillary fundraiser? Or am I thinking of another slimebag?
Posted by: richard mcenroe | October 22, 2010 at 12:57 AM
I would suggest you continue to respire while waiting.
Posted by: aelfheld | October 22, 2010 at 02:11 PM
You're being unfair to Obie, Dennis. What other kind of person does he know?
Posted by: richard mcenroe | October 22, 2010 at 03:03 PM