1.0 link 164544 <![CDATA[GOP Opposes Pay Limits On Bailed-Out Bankers]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/gop-opposes-pay-limits-on_n_164544.html Wall Street bankers, with their $18 billion in bonuses, private jets and gaudy conferences, are causing headaches for the GOP.

President Obama has proposed capping compensation for executives at banks that take taxpayer bailout money at $500,000. Republicans hate the idea -- a position puts them uncomfortably on the side of people currently about as popular as child-porn producers and subprime mortgage brokers.

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) blamed the "tone deaf" bankers for creating the political environment that allows Obama...

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