Some Significant No-Shows:
"It appears that Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein, John Mack of Morgan Stanley, and Dick Parsons of Citgroup will not be able to make the meeting today with The One regarding executive pay and the failure to lend by the Wall Street Welfare Queens.
The excuses are not the usual: end of year performance reviews, too busy with the office redecorators, trying to settle the tab at Scores, on hold with the Neiman Marcus trophy-wife and office-chippy department, making plans to fix the Superbowl."
It looks like that old saw is as true today as ever -
"When you don't want to do something, any excuse is a good excuse." My personal favorite was "I'd love to attend, but I have to go shopping at Job Lot that day".
Seriously, I wonder when President Obama and his band of merry men are going to realize that you can't go around demonizing people and then expect them to roll over and do what you want. Bankers, like most of the American public, are not psychopaths like DC politicians. When you insult them they take it personal and do something about it. I wish we could go back to the old days, when a Senator insulted or slandered someone they fought duels to defend their honor. Today they appear on the Sunday talk shows and hurl "sound bites" at each other, what a bunch of pansies. We need more Congressmen with Saber scars and bullet holes. Come to think of it, some of our Congresswomen might benefit from that same new look.
