Should the main feature of the Tickle A Vickle booth,* Vikram Pandit? They all came out of Wednesday lunch date describing the event as a beautiful, life-altering, orgasmic experience, so it’d certainly come as something as a bitch slap for Obama to turn around and fire them, but The Deal is thinking Rick Wagoner’s canning is indication Obama is finished playing Mr. Nice Guy with TARP recipients. Obviously with the shelving of his private Zen garden, Pandit has little reason left to want to keep this gig, but he probably also isn’t looking to get thrown out on his ass. As for Ken Lewis, he’s already sworn we’ll have to drag his dead lifeless body out of the place, so there could be some friction there, as well.
*Like a kissing booth, but with more jolly elfin’ fun.
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Rick Wagoner wasn’t willing to play ball.
Think of this as the Obama equivalent of Capone’s lecture on baseball in “The Untouchables.”
I bet Blankfein and Lewis become team players.
If any of “those guys’ offered to resign I would say nuh uh buddy you keep that job eh
“If any of “those guys’ offered to resign I would say nuh uh buddy you keep that job eh”
Isn’t that what he is saying to tim?
@3 um yeah…ya see the joke started over here *pointing to the left on the blackboard* then it meandered over here *pointing to the trash can*
but it wasn’t funny so I move on
Yeah, just what we need. The Govt telling businesses who should be running them.
I can see Barney running Goldman; Chris Dodd running BAC, and Rangle “I don’t pay taxes” taking over for boy toy Dimon.
One Big As* Mistake America.
This is not widely known but Ken Lewis is actually Lucifer, the Prince of Darkness, and therefore can’t be fired.
Obviously this idiot, were he a mere mortal, would have been fired 1000 x for is series of epic blunders.
When did this place turn into a forum for the same people that call Rush at noon and Hannity at 3pm? I guess that’s indicative of the intellect and viewpoint of people who have time on their hands.
@5 Dude, seriously did you just wake up from a coma?
@7 About the same time people who watch MSNBC and read the Huffington post started running the country.
@7- you don’t have to be right wing to know the gov’t running banks is a horrible idea.
@7- with the gov’t spriting wildly to the Socialist end of the political spectrum, most Americans now appear to be right leaning (or as I’m sure you would say, neo-con.) Rush and Sean are more in-line with the majority of Americans polictically than King Obama.
While I am not a fan of Rick Wagoner, his error was merely failing to turn General Motors around.
Ken Lewis, however, brought an immensely profitable institution to its knees.
Ken Lewis cannot be removed.
In order for Ken Lewis to be removed, the board members would need to acknowledge their complicity in destroying the company. That is not going to happen.
Any members added to the board as the result of acquisitions understand that the circle-jerk must continue.
@7… you sound like a Californian (no offense to the rare, but existent, Californian with a head on his/her shoulders); did you vote for Mad Max or Fancy Nancy?
Rhetorical. You probably found a way to vote both “dedicated public servants” into the Congress.
Let me know how I can be enlightened by your doctrine…. and how said doctrine will improve my life.
@5 you tard. Yeah, Stan O’Neil and Jimmy Cayne had their sh*t wired tight. People used to say government should be run more like a public company – now that is an insult.
Get a clue.
I’m just curious why Sarbanes & Oxley haven’t gone after all these guys head under the act they came up with. Between lax/poor managers and BoD’s that were at-best asleep at the wheel, the fun has surely only just started