Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was in fine flip-flopping form during a speech today at the Heritage Foundation, as the Washington Independent reports.
“The problem started when we bailed out AIG,” McCain told the conservative crowd at Heritage. “I would have let AIG go bankrupt. If they have to fail, they fail.”
It’s been well-noted in the blogosphere that McCain originally supported bailing out AIG in September, when his presidential run was in its, er, last throes. But what’s most interesting, per the Independent, is that McCain came out against “controlling the salaries and bonuses of TARP-taking executives.”
But I thought McCain wanted to let AIG fail exactly because that would deny bonuses to “greedy execs”! He told us so on his Twitter feed!* Sounds like it’s time for some Straight Talk TM on AIG executives: Do we let the company fail to deny them bonuses, or let the company fail and make no attempt to prevent them from grabbing bonuses on their way out?
*This is the first and last time Twitter will appear in any of my posts.
