Today, John McCain he would fire Christopher Cox, Securities and Exchange Chairman, if he were president, accusing the former GOP congressman of betraying the public's trust. Because, for sure, it was the SEC guy who was carrying out the policies set by Congress and people like John McCain (who was a senator back in the good ol' days of the S&L crisis and the Keating Five) who should be held to blame. Let's see...
Choice A: Blame the guy who was in charge of carrying out the rules set by the congress, or...
Choice B: Blame the congress (and more specifically, Republicans), who had the concept that if people in charge of really huge amounts of money and who make their very large incomes by manipulating this money can be trusted to do what's right because otherwise they'll loose the money and so be punished for that loss.
Unless of course, they have the justice system tilted in their favor (stealing $5000 from a safe is a crime that'll result in a hefty jail-term, whereas "earning" $50,000,000 while loosing millions more that other people have investmented is just doing business, and failure will get you a "golden parachute").
Choice A: Blame the guy who was in charge of carrying out the rules set by the congress, or...
Choice B: Blame the congress (and more specifically, Republicans), who had the concept that if people in charge of really huge amounts of money and who make their very large incomes by manipulating this money can be trusted to do what's right because otherwise they'll loose the money and so be punished for that loss.
Unless of course, they have the justice system tilted in their favor (stealing $5000 from a safe is a crime that'll result in a hefty jail-term, whereas "earning" $50,000,000 while loosing millions more that other people have investmented is just doing business, and failure will get you a "golden parachute").
So, once again, the Republican candidate puts their greatest talent on display: the ability to find a straw-man to blame for their own bankrupt policies.
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