Oh their "poised" alright, poised to reap atrocious financial reward on the taxpayer dime.  Context, people, context.

This for me is so inappropriate.  What's the matter with Gassey?  Another stupid GOP remark.  They sure are full of them!  The mindless rhetoric spewing from the GOP.        

Grassley's remarks were fine...until he got to the "or go commit suicide."  That is not appropriate, whoever it is directed tooo...

SUICIDE IS TOO GOOD FOR THESE BOZOS.....LET'S PLAY MAKE-A-DEAL, DOOR #1"DRAWN AND QUARTERED",DOOR #2 "THE IRON MISTRESS" OR DOOR #3,"WATER BOARDING BY CHENEY"!!!!!

For the record, they hired Burson-Marsteller to rehabilitate their image.  The same Burson-Marsteller that rebailitates the images of despots and military juntas worldwide, and the same Burson-Marsteller that's just been put in charge of rehabilitating Bush's image (I'm not kidding).  Give it up, AIG, nobody believes you have anything in interest but the Almighty Dollar.

GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley's message to AIG executives: "resign or go commit suicide."

The remark is very disappointing, but AIG's employees continue to work with poise and professionalism to take care of policyholders and repay taxpayers."


well AIG you can start by paying us back right dam now!!! or i have a resulation to this, give the government the bonus money you were going to give the employees. if there are such professionals then they would understand why no bonus, what is AIG afraid they are going to quite. i usually don't agree with the GOP but this senator has got a point, he is mad as the president and everybody else is. so AIG if you don't like what he said, then don't give the bounses and if you do, then don't get so sensitive about what people are saying.

Here's how they can take care of policy holders and repay taxpayers.  The top 100 executives change their estate plans to make the US Treasury their sole beneficiary, then they follow Sen. Grassley's advice.

"resign or go commit suicide."

stands on it's own, and we all agree with it!

PLEASE,stop this garbage,you crooks have no honor,you pray to the greeny,you live in a world that thinks you are worthy,maybe of being fired,put in prison,and share a cell with bubba,and he lost a ton on his 401,maybe Chaney could join you,you could count you stolen money and play monopoly.See the people of Japan had pride,they died because of it,not like you thiefs.

The very idea that AIG executives will receive bonuses is disgusting and despicable. They should be tied to trees in a public place and let the American people pelt them with rotten tomatoes at intervals for the rest of their lives. Shame on them!

The answer is obvious.

Commit suicide.

It's okay to be angry or upset about a decision, but to tell someone to commit suicide is appalling!  I have no respect for something like that (and yes, I refer to him as "something" as I'm unsure how to properly describe "Grassley", (or, is it "Grossly" or "Ghastly"!!

Chuck Grassley should resign immediately. He won't but he should! AIG's actions are indefensible. But regardless of what any executive at AIG did or didn’t do for Chuck Grassley to publicly recommend that AIG executives commit suicide is indefensible. Yesterday Grassley in an interview on WMT radio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa about AIG executives said “I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they’d follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I’m sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or commit suicide.”  He continued “And in the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.”

I’ve never supported Chuck Grassley, and have often been embarrassed at his lack of command at the English language, but this morning was the first time I was so angry at anything the intellectual midget said to call his DC office, and to send him an e-mail. For any US Senator to suggest American executives should kill themselves, and to state he’d feel “a little bit better” if they did is beyond sick.  I would love to see anyone with AIG who broke any law imprisoned, I would love to see Congress pass legislation taxing the bonuses of any employee of a company that received bail out funds at 100% of the bonus received. I’m as angry as you can get with the corporate greed, and unlike Chuck Grassley I never voted in favor of deregulation that made this conduct possible.

However to publicly suggest anyone should commit suicide is beyond the pale! However, as usual Grassley had impeccable timing!!!!!!!! Not only would his remarks be indefensible at any time, they came at a time, and in a community that is reeling from 3 recent suicides. In the 10 days prior to Grassley’s radio interview 3 young men in Cedar Rapids committed suicide. The first happened on March 7th. A wonderful young 16-year-old boy hung himself. He was a 10th grade student at Xavier High School; my son in 11th grade at Xavier was his friend. I’ve known him since he was a kindergartener at All Saints Elementary School. His death has caused great pain to his immediate family, his friends their parents, his teachers, et cetera.  On Friday the 13th (3/13/09) two recent graduates of Linn Mar High School (one of 6 public high schools in the Cedar Rapids metro area) committed suicide. I don’t know these young men, but no doubt those who knew them are in pain.

Watching Morning Joe this morning my daughter and I heard Grassley’s comments, we could not believe he would say anything so horrible. I then read the AP story in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, where Grassley’s spokesman attempted to claim he wasn’t calling for AIG executives to kill themselves. The correct response would have been the Senator regrets his remarks; he got carried away, instead of attempting to insult our intellect. Apparently Casey Mills (Grassley’s spokesman) believes Iowans are as intellectually challenged as his boss.

Grassley should resign, but he won’t. At a minimum he should immediately apologize to all Iowans, and anyone who has ever been hurt by suicide, and this apology shouldn’t be a written press release, but on the public airwaves where he made the statements. A man with a minimum of heart, and any class would do so immediately, but Chuck Grassley has neither!

Are all you Demo-socialist going to be honest and bash Obama for his outrageous hypocrisy yesterday or are AIG bonuses Bush's fault to?  You give someone billions of dollars with no strings and then have the gall to deride them over how they spend the money.  I didn't think they should have gotten the money in the first place but to sign over a blank check to someone and then whine about what they write it for is political buffoonary at it's best. If you don't read the stimulus before you pass it then I guess that gives you the right to complain?

True Grassley's comments are inappropriate but the AIG chair is tone deaf, uninformed, non-responsive and contains more hubris than exists in Albany.

While watching Soccer on ESPN several days ago, i noticed on Manchester United's jersey's  ( AIG ). Don't know if it's the same AIG but MU is Bigtime Soccer over there in Europe.

Here's how they can take care of policy holders and repay taxpayers.  The top 100 executives change their estate plans to make the US Treasury their sole beneficiary, then they follow Sen. Grassley's advice.
Nat Turner

^^^^^^^^

To help the AIG staffers get right, Nat here will demonstrate the correct technique of the Grassley implementation.

"i usually don't agree with the GOP but this senator has got a point, he is mad as the president and everybody else is. so AIG if you don't like what he said, then don't give the bounses and if you do, then don't get so sensitive about what people are saying.
Jeff D Evanston IL."

Jeff he isn't right Chuck Grassley is wrong. I have no sympathy for AIG executives, but not only did Grassley support the deregulation that allowed the problem (the loophole doesn't excuse AIG's behavior, but Chuck's not innocent, either), but calling on people to commit suicide is never acceptable! NEVER! And claiming you would get satisfaction from their suicide is sick. It would be bad enough to espouse such sick remarks in private, but to do it in a radio interview is beyond belief. In the same city where these remarks were broadcast a funeral for a 16 year old suicide victim was held last Thursday, today a family is burying their 21 year old son who committed suicide last Friday, and tomorrow another family is burying their son who also committed suicide on Friday. The families, friends, and classmates of these 3 young men are in pain, and Chuck "if I only had a brain" Grassley actually suggests AIG executives commit suicide, and states he would find some satisfaction in their deaths! That is sick. People in pain from suicide of a loved one or friend, don't need to hear Grassley's sick commentary! Chuck Grassley should be ashamed! And those who say they agree, should think about what they are saying!

Now that Chuckles is in favor of disgraced executives committing suicide, will he change his opposition on assisted suicide of the terminally ill (i.e. Oregon's law) I doubt it!

The CEO's at AIG are still laughing, and do not care at all. In their economic eyes, Sen. Grassley is a little political bug. All they say to Grassley is talk to my lawyer. AIG CEO's have only one goal right now. To make more money, repay nothing, continue to "rip-off" their clients, and hide as much profit as possible. The CEO's are swimming in tax payer money right now, and using some of it to light their cigars.

If this were really a Japanese corporation, many of these executives would already have apologized -- and some would have already committed suicide for shame.

Describing the Japanese way of dealing with shame, Sen. Grassley poured a little too much fuel on the building fire.
 I believe him when he said he didn't want anyone to commit SUICIDE, thing is, I'm not so sure of
the American public right now!

'Poised'? This isn't a DAR tea dance. 'Continue'?
'Professional'? Since when? If they had been
professional all along, we wouldn't own them.

I would have appreciated an apology even if it was hollow. These people are leeches, they are ruled by their id. They are no different than pigs who use all their cunning and instinct to feed themselves. This is not about a "war against the rich" as claimed by right wing Limbaugh non thinkers. It is a war against greed, anti-Americanism, putting self above all others and all law to gain, gain, gain for oneself. These people are akin to drug cartel leaders who would kill their children to gain power and money.

Professional THIEVES.

A.i.g.
Is
Greed

If they were "poised and professional", do you think they would be raping the American taxpayers like this? Pleeze.

Senator Grassley joins a chorus of many who are upset that AIG is giving bonuses to the top executives. Unfortunately they have contracts. The honorable thing would be for those executives to turn down the bonuses for now. They would look good doing so but I suspect the greed will get in the way of that.

I don't approve of killing one's self for any reason, however, I believe it does drive home the point as to how awful these bonuses appear to be in the public's perception.

Naming names and shaming them might be a way to get those guys to give the money back and not take a bonus until AIG starts seeing a profit and the taxpayers hare reimbursed. I would also not oppose the government, since we own 80% of AIG anyway, fire the executives and hire someone to repleace each of those executives. Let's see them try and work somewhere else after this. Maybe a deal that if they keep the bonus they lose their job if they give back the bonus they keep their job temporarily based on performance in getting AIG solvent again.

As a fellow Iowan (although a member of the opposing political party), I agree completely with the spirit of Senator Grassley's remarks.  There is no honor or decency in the way AIG has behaved. I find it completely amazing that AIG has paid bonuses to over-compensated employees while the company continues to accept tax-payer funding to ensure its own survival. The fact that they have no shame about this practice is really disturbing.

A very stupid thing to say on the record.  Not much fore-thought involved in that remark. Hateful commentary from a Republican is not unheard of, however, but rather can be expected.
As for AIG executives, they should be ashamed of themselves - they don't deserve death, but also DO NOT deserve a bonus and should be required to give it back (or not accept it) or have their names plastered on the internet.
I think most would decline the bonus.

This should in no way be debatable - AIG employee contract or no contract.  The funds should be recalled by the government immediately and AIG should be left to deal with the contracts. There is too much rhetoric being thrown around - something politicians like to do to get in the news - just get the money back and let the cards fall.  This is absurd.  If the US took care of the little people like they do the big corporations, we would be a nation to be admired.  I'm just tired of all the BS when the answer is so simple.

Predicated by the statement that I don't agree with the insane amount of bonuses discussed in this topic, I wonder if Mr. Grassley would suggest that the Senators and Representatives that rushed the bill through Congress, giving the money to firms such as AIG without proper sanctions or controls in the text to prevent this situation, should follow suit?  After all, any person with a pulse and an active brain cell knew that the people receiving the money mismanaged the money they had.  Why did the legislators believe that they wouldn't mismanage the bailout money.  Gosh, after all the people with accountability of mishandling the bailout money would finish diving on swords, there would be a good number of job availability at both AIG and Congress.

The next persons who should fall on their swords should be the AIG spokespeople who drop weasel-like apologia about the integrity of AIG bonus suckers. Ethics standards apply to them too. Their role is NOT to try and rationalize the unethical. When any company pays extra compensation to people who run their firm (and the economy) and the economy, the spokespeople should be like West Wing's C.J. Cregg and declare "You've got to be kidding, right?"

And, they'll be 'poised and professional' as long as those bonuses keep coming!

LMAO!

"They're poised to take their obscene bonuses for sinking their company and tanking the American economy, and the hell with all the rest of you!!"

I do not see anything professional about squandering tax payer's money. AIG violated the good faith the government placed on them to use the bailout to prevent bankruptcy, not to give a million dollars to former employees.

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