Posted on 05/08/2009 7:06:48 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Earlier this week, we ran a number of stories about how Steve Rattner allegedly threatened hedge funds that refused to drop their opposition to the Obama administration's Chrysler plan.
We asked the White House to comment, and after three days it has become apparent that they have no plans to respond. The White House has denied earlier charges that it threatened to use the White House press corps to ruin the reputation of a firm that was opposing its Chrysler plans.
By refusing to comment on our subsequent story about additional threats, the White House appears to be backing away from its earlier denial. If the threats weren't made, why not just repeat the earlier denial? That would be easy enough.
And we didn't even ask them about the even more serious charges that the financial blog Finem Respice has made:
Confronting the head of a non-TARP fund holding Chrysler debt and unwilling to release it for any sum less than that to which it was legally entitled without compelling cause, this country's "Car Czar" berated the manager of said fund with an outburst of prose substantially resembling this:
Who the f*ck do you think you're dealing with? We'll have the IRS audit your fund. Every one of your employees. Your investors. Then we will have the Securities and Exchange Commission rip through your books looking for anything and everything and nothing we find to destroy you with.
A totalitarian who would be more at home in the Storm Troopers.
Typical Chicago style tactics.
Is he part of the Rattner litter that includes the lovable Ellen?
There’s some more transparency.
tsk tsk
a more refined gangsta would have said “Gentlemen, I am the only thing that stands between you and the pitchforks...”
Yes we can, has a new meaning. This is the hope and change that we all can believe in.
BTW, Steve Rattner is good buddies with Pinch Sulzberger.
Good cop bad cop...the One plays the role you mention.
Wow.
I don’t wish to be unkind (really, I don’t).
But, why do you suppose most Democrats come across as physically ugly?
I suspect that it is their ugly personalities, oozing out.
I really do believe the Obummer administration threatened these executives and did so in a bullying mafia-like manner. But then this what the far left always does. And when they don’t get their way they throw tantrums and hissy fits. They are like very spoiled bratty children who need to be told “No!” and if they continue their bad behavior need to be swatted on the backside until they learn their lesson. I think a lot of swatting of these behinds needs to get started now.
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Exactly, this is how the thugs in Chicago do business.
Rattner is up to his ears in a NY pension fund kick back scandal.
I predict he will be in jail before the hedge fund managers he threatened.
Storm Troopers would not put up with the weasel. He looks like someone who got pushed inside his own locker in Junior High.
And yet, the corrupt MSM collectively yawns.
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