Ken Lewis, chief executive of Bank of America, along with 7 other leaders of top financial firms, faced a grilling by Congress on Wednesday.Yet according to the Wall Street Journal, the politicians' lashing out at the "Big 8" was hypocritical, since they were so many members of the House of Representative's Financial Services committee who had evidently done "very little homework on the banks and showed an open ignorance of their businesses."

The WSJ is not alone to think this. The paper reports that brokerage firm Themis Trading sent out a note to clients describing what they wish had happened during the hearings.

Here is what Themis Trading had to say:

"Watching the televised tongue lashings, we here at Themis Trading were rooting for just one of these financial titans to take on the persona of Jack Nicholson's Colonel Jessup from A Few Good Men, and tell our lawmakers "the truth!"

"You can't handle the truth!

"Son, we live in a world that has leverage, and that world needs to have men that make loans. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Congressman Frank?

"I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for homeowners and curse the bankers. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that the taxpayer TARP money, while tragic, probably saved the economy, and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves jobs.

"You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties you want me taking on risk, you need me taking on risk...

"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a politician who has taken sweetheart loans, and consistently rubberstamped these questioned practices, and then questions my business practices.....

"I would rather you just said 'thank you,' and went on your way."Brokerage firm Themis Trading sent out a note to clients describing what they wish had happened during the Congressional hearings of the Wall Street titans.