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These are Senator Mitch McConnell's boys:

Mum's the word at bailed-out banks
By Scott Kirsner

Mum's the word. A recent Associated Press story riled aviation
entrepreneur Philip Greenspun. The AP contacted 21 banks that had
received at least $1 billion of federal bailout money and asked how they
had spent it. All 21 declined to share specifics.

It seems that no restrictions were put on the money and that there is no
accounting mechanism in place. The fear is that most of this money was
paid out as executive bonuses. How could the executives of banks pay
themselves all of this money? I would think that a better question is
"How could the executives of banks NOT pay themselves all of this
money?"

http://tinyurl.com/axvbft

McConnell made SURE these corrupt assholes got hundreds of billions, in
tax money.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led the battle Wednesday to pass
a $700 billion Wall Street bailout package, in which taxpayers would buy
the failing financial sector's toxic assets.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/107/story/53375.html

But money to "the commoners?"
Fuhgiduhboutit!

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced skepticism today
about the emerging economic stimulus plan, applying a brake to
Democratic plans to quickly pass up to $850 billion in spending and tax
cuts soon after President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration.

"As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers
about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the
taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before
we consider passing it," McConnell said in a statement, which will be
publicly issued later today.

http://tinyurl.com/7rvv5r

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