Reports are that those AIG execs are trying to limit White House hostility by promising to only target Israeli civilians:

President Obama took that rhetoric in a different direction. He actually upped the ante explaining that AIG is like a suicide bomber. "We had to step in, it was the right thing to do, even though it is infuriating," Obama said, explaining why the government needed to bail out the troubled banks. "The same is true with AIG," he said. "It was the right thing to do to step in. Here's the problem. It's almost like they've got -- they've got a bomb strapped to them and they've got their hand on the trigger. You don't want them to blow up. But you've got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger."

Remember that time during the election when conservatives warned that Obama's utopian promises would inevitably run aground, causing his worshipful quasi-brownshirts to hysterically and perhaps violently target scapegoats? Here's a video from yesterday of Barney Frank - a guy who bullied and demagogued the country into a financial meltdown - all but threatening to unleash lynch mobs on AIG execs:

You know what will fix this? Hope.

References:
* Obama: It's like AIG has a bomb strapped to them [CSM]
* Top Obama Adviser Carries Obama Foreign Policy To Logical Conclusion - Meets With Hamas And Then Resigns So It Won't Be A "Distraction" [MR]
* Video: Guy who helped wreck the economy touts his "work" on the subprime crisis [Hot Air]
* Video: Barney Frank won't promise confidentiality to AIG despite death threats [Hot Air]

Previously:
* Dems: We'll Finance Health Care With Cigarette Tax That Will Cause People To Stop Buying Cigarettes
* Rham Emanuel: You Know What The US Needs? Higher Energy Prices.
* Could It Actually Be That Dems Have No Idea What's Trashing The Economy And No Coherent Plan To Fix It?