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Congress Does Something
The Mahablog — ... At the Washington Post, Brady Dennis writes about the bonus babies of AIG, huddling in their office building feeling misunderstood. ...

Inside AIG
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] The Washington Post's Brady Dennis went out and got the other side of the story : A sense of fear hung in the room the palpable, unsettling kind that flashes across people's eyes. But there was anger, too. No one would express it publicly, of course. Who wants to hear a wealthy financier complain? And yet, within those walls off Danbury Road lies a deep sense of betrayal first by their former colleagues, now by their elected leaders. The handful of souls who championed the firm's now-infamous credit-default swaps are, by nearly every account, long since departed. Those ...

AIG Circling the Drain?
Daily Pundit — [Editor’s note: This comment, posted by Alfred Centauri, deserves a post of its own, so I’m giving it one.] It’s essentially academic now, IMHO. Bill, in an earlier post you wrote that the affected AIG employees should all just leave. Apparently, they feel that way too. A sense of fear hung in the room — the palpable, unsettling kind that flashes across people’s eyes. But there was anger, too. No one would express it publicly, of course. Who wants to hear a wealthy financier complain? And ...

INSIDE A.I.G., A SENSE OF BETRAYAL: Who wants to hear a wealthy financier complain? And yet, with…
Instapundit — INSIDE A.I.G., A SENSE OF BETRAYAL: Who wants to hear a wealthy financier complain? And yet, within those walls off Danbury Road lies a deep sense of betrayal — first by their former colleagues, now by their elected leaders. The handful of souls who championed the firm’s now-infamous credit-default swaps are, by nearly every account, long since departed. Those left behind to clean up the mess, the majority of whom never lost a dime for AIG, now feel they have been sold out by their Congress and their president. “They’ve ...

Friday morning links
Maggie's Farm — ... what if not saying "God" is offensive to me? Where are the war crime accusations against the Palestinians? Discussion of the quantitative easing. Cowen. My ignorant view? Banks will take the money and hoard it to recapitalize. Who wouldn't? Not in my neighborhood. Admin considers releasing Gitmo guys in the USA. Just one more reason to have an armed home. The WaPo took a ride to CT to get the other side of the AIG story. h/t, NRO In case you don't know ...

Mine Was A Scientist’s Aurobiography That Went Out Of Print In The 60’s, But I’m Weird That Way
Balloon Juice — ... Sadly, yesterday I spent most of the day looking for time to write a four paragraph post and still almost got in trouble with the boss twice. In the end I decided that it was pedestrian and deleted it (shorter version: I wonder why UAW line workers who saw their contractually guaranteed pensions hosed did not get a front page tongue bath at the Washington Post). It looks like these days the best that I can do is steal quotes from around the internets. ...