He's outraged, I tell you.

He thinks it is OUTRAGEOUS that AIG and other companies are being forced to cut executive compensation, even though those funds would come from the federal government.

The companies received bailouts from the United States treasury.

He thinks it's intolerable that the very companies that were saved by the corporate welfare are being told to trim upfront compensation for their executives, even though the same executives stand to make out even more grandly, should they turn their companies around, so that their company stocks rise.

I'm watching this hearing on C-SPAN, and frankly, it's making me ill.

He's against making them earn their money, by making their companies more valuable. He just wants to shovel federal money into their banks accounts.

This is the same Dan Burton that bragged in the nineties that he did target practice on melons representing the President of the United States. You know, Bill Clinton, that murdered youths on Arkansas railroad tracks.

This is the same congressman that consistently opposes increases of the minimum wage for American workers. Yet he opposes making multi-millionaire executives earn their money.

Is this why I am cynical?