Chris Dodd Chairs the Senate Banking Committee – a position that made him important enough to become a Friend of Angelo, and allowed him to influence the porkulus conference committee to allow AIG to award bonuses to senior employees. It led AIG executives to strong arm employees into donating to Dodd. It also gave Dodd disproportionate influence in killing efforts to clean up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before they collapsed. In other words, Dodd’s position on the Banking Committee is largely responsible for making him an underdog for re-election next year.
So what’s Chris Dodd’s plan to save his lucrative government gig? Remind people of his spot on the Banking Committee:
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), facing increasingly difficult odds in 2010, is spending the two-week recess barnstorming his home state to try to improve his political standing…
The appearances are part of a series dubbed “Banking for Change,” meant to highlight Dodd’s work on consumer protection issues as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Dodd thinks he’s helped by reminders of what he’s done with his Banking Committee spot? He might as well run television ads bragging about his Countrywide Mortgage and his wife’s former spot on the Board of an AIG company. Connecticut Republicans are being handed a golden opportunity to remind voters of Dodd’s ethical lapses, and his leadership role in the housing crash and current recession. They ought to attend Dodd’s events in state and ask him why he’s bragging about legislative malpractice and crony capitalism.
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6eorge Jetson (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 6:49PM EST (link)onYour Change ntOh. My. God.
Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 7:10PM EST (link)We can win this seat.
We really can.
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E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 7:32PM EST (link)This dude is running on “I helped cause a global recession by cheating and incompetence!” Hard not to laugh…..
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
laughable
jack leary Saturday, April 11th at 4:17PM EST (link)like the imcompetence that caused the global recession in the first plcee? is the last 8 years just a big cocktail party for conservatives? because i think you had the blinders on when the real people to blame were in office? stop drinking so much.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
—Harry S. Truman
What a pity, jack leering, that you won't be here
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 4:19PM EST (link)long enough to become semi-educated. You are obviously a product of the public educational system as evidenced by your inability to do anything other than spout lefty tripe in incomplete and poorly punctuated sentences.
stupid *is* bannable
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Sunday, April 12th at 1:55AM EST (link)as you now know. Moron,
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Hopefully Dodd's next slogan will be "Begging for Change" nt
Common_Cents (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 7:33PM EST (link)Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Dodd and those like him who have never been...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 7:39PM EST (link)in the real world literally just being a servent of the government NEED DESPERATLY to go home that goes for Republicans and Democrats…..THEY ARE THE PROBLEM! When you have been in DC to long you are all about YOU and screw the people.
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To be fair to the long term parasites
Hooah_Mac (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 9:36PM EST (link)Barack Obama was about himself and screw the people right from his first day in Washington. Maybe that’s just another indicator of what a prodigy he is.
-Priorities-
1. Mission 2. Soldiers 3. Everything Else
My thoughts
Hooah_Mac (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 9:34PM EST (link)It would seem anything with the word “change” is a poor choice for a 50 term incumbent(or whatever) seeking reelection.
On the other hand, President Obama already established that the word doesn’t actually mean anything at all, so…
-Priorities-
1. Mission 2. Soldiers 3. Everything Else
This is too good to let go...
Wing Zero (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 2:40PM EST (link)I hope whoever runs for this seat against Dodd goes for his political throat…
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
This is too good to let go...
Wing Zero (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 2:40PM EST (link)I hope whoever runs for this seat against Dodd goes for his political throat…
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
[W]ow[,] you morons. [Copy-edited.]
jack leary Saturday, April 11th at 4:12PM EST (link)[I]n case you guys did[n][']t know, here[']s a news flash: POLITICIANS ARE LYING[,] THIEVING CHEATERS. [I]t ain[']t [I actually accept "ain't" as being a real word. Sorry. - ML] like [D]odd is the first one [who has] take[n] money from special interests. [H]ell, the poster boy for [
the] conservatives right now is [J]ohn [M]c[C]ain,[...]
[What? - ML]
who had his dirty paws all tied up [I'd correct the metaphor, if I only knew which one he was trying to use. - ML] in [the] [K]eating [F]ive [scandal], so let[']s not be hypocrites here[,] people. [I]f you hate [D]odd, [then] you must hate [M]c[C]ain. [There, I] said it.
[I'll finish up by noting in passing that I suspect that there are quite a number of people reading this who have absolutely no trouble whatsoever with managing to hate Dodd and McCain at the same time. - Moe Lane]
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
—Harry S. Truman
Wow, jack leary, you really told us, didn't you?
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 4:17PM EST (link)And I’m not going to rehash the Keating 5 thing, other than to say that McCain was exonerated on any complicity there. As to your attempts to make Chris Dodd on par with John McCain—EPIC FAIL.
John McCain served his country honorably before going into politics. Dodd has never served anyone but himself with both hands.
And, oh by the way, you’re a tool. And not a very sharp one.
sharp like a fox!
jack leary Saturday, April 11th at 4:22PM EST (link)serving the country is now a prerequisite to be an honorable man? i think bush the second missed that memo when he was avoiding being sent to vietnam. and lets not get personal here bud. try to keep this civil.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
—Harry S. Truman
"try to keep this civil." Yes indeed. And this coming
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 4:30PM EST (link)from someone SO civilized that he called all of us “morons” on his first time out of the gate.
I apologize to tools everywhere for equating someone as useless as you with implements that enable us to complete many difficult tasks. In your case, the proper tool to be put into use would be a taser.
Why, janis, don't you know that a Republican is still guilty even if exonerated?
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 5:48PM EST (link)It’s the whole “seriousness of the charges” thing.
jack leary, I'm sure you'd be happier with the idiots at Kos. nt
Achance (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 4:26PM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
Jack Leary Nailed It - Jack You Are A True Conservative
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Saturday, April 11th at 4:36PM EST (link)Yes, Jack, POLITICIANS ARE LYING THIEVING CHEATERS and the further they are away from the people the more the more they lie, cheat and steal.
So you must support limited government, right? I mean, politicians are crooks and it would be stupid to entrust them with are tax dollars, right? And they are liars, so it would be stupid to entrust them with our health care, right?
I agree brother. Scale down all government, especially federal governement. Its the only way to stop all these abuses of power. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We cant trust them. Its time to cut off the tax revenue that enables their corruption.
Want less corruption? Vote for smaller government, less taxes and empower the people. Right on bro. I’m with you all the way.