McCain: Bailout Deal Hinges on Length of Perp Walks
by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace
(2008-09-28) — Sen. John McCain said reluctant Republicans would sign on to a $700 billion federal bailout of “Big Finance”, as soon as Democrats agree “to require criminally-negligent Wall Street CEOs and their enablers in Congress to perform a videotaped and broadcast perp walk, of not less than 10 yards per million dollars squandered.”
You know you would pay to see that...and buy the DVDs and T-shirts....maybe a coffeetable book with photos. Begin in nice business attire, surrounded by family and all the good things that came with their lifestyle. Follow it by prison jumpsuit attire, new "roomies", and a graphic that represents how much tax payer money they were responsible for squandering.
Turn it into a soap opera reality TV show and I bet that there would be a rapid increase in financial crisis experts.
Posted by marybeth at September 29, 2008 10:53 PM PoliticsOne possible problem with this: Dressing up like a prisoner and playing with new roomies is not what Barney Frank calls "punishment." It's what he calls "the third Tuesday of every month."
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Posted by Planet Moron at October 1, 2008 11:50 AMI had only intended a comparison between (what I guessed are) typical families of politicians and fund-stealing CEOs (photogenic wives and children, neat, clean, and outwardly perfect) and the somewhat scruffier bunch that they would now be with.
As for Frank, I hadn't thought about the whole "one man's meat is another man's poison" thing. Or vice versa in this case.
Posted by marybeth at October 1, 2008 12:09 PM