Well, in that case the entire thing comes down to the Obama administration worrying that making the regulations retroactive would have exposed them to lawsuits. I'm no lawyer, but I have a feeling these guys know what they're talking about. In any case, the "smoking gun" here is whether a given regulation is retroactive to Feb. 11th or whether it only applies after a certain date.
Not much of a nefarious motive here. Unless Obama somehow benefits from the AIG bonuses, which is a bit doubtful. Nothing to see IMO, except that they perhaps underestimated the political risk they were taking by protecting themselves from a lawsuit. No offense, Azure--but I sort of have a feeling that if he'd gone the other way, some around here (not you in particular) would be saying "look, government is interfering with corporations! How dare he! Socialism! SOCIALISM!!!"
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