Reply #22: Why would anyone expect the Bushie TARP contracts to be better than their "legal" opinions? [View All]

[D-Lee]

It just looks like more of the same low quality legal work to me.

Likely the contracts left every barn door open to anything.

Remember, these were the same Bushies who insisted on not releasing TARP expenditures, notwithstanding that a report to Congress on disbursements was required by TARP itself.

These were the "signing memo" folks who thought they could do anything they wanted and apply virtual white-out to legislative requirements they didn't like.

These were the "free market capitalism" folks who ignored the prevalence of all forms of corporate payola, favoritism, kickbacks, "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" schemes and self-aggrandizement that took over major corporate decision-making.

My suspicion is that the results might scandalize the public but were not barred by Bushie-written TARP contracts.

We will see.