After twenty-four hours of denials, Senator Chris Dodd is admitting that he added a provision to the stimulus package to protect the bonuses AIG intended to pay executives.
Dodd, you will recall, is the single largest recipient of AIG employees’ campaign funds in the United States Congress.
Here’s the thing though: the amendment had to be added before it went into conference with the House. Senator Dodd was not one of the Senate representatives in the conference.
Inside Conference, the participants go over all the amendments. They have to in order to make sure the House version and Senate version are identical. Someone had to do Chris Dodd’s bidding in the Conference Committee.
Who was it?
The Senate representatives were Senators Reid, Inouye, and Baucus. Which of them worked with Senator Dodd to make sure AIG was protected?
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Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
I hope they all were involved
sconklin (Diary) Wednesday, March 18th at 9:51PM EST (link)Kill 4 birds with one stone. Not literally of course
Oh it gets better, dimes a flyin'
Hammer2008 (Diary) Wednesday, March 18th at 10:08PM EST (link)Now Dodd-lehead says Obama made him do it?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/aig_bonus_congress
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Yes its the Anointed ONE
antisocial (Diary) Wednesday, March 18th at 11:46PM EST (link)He got that in, in HIS bill.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Where's a good investigative journalist when you need one? (nt)
RJD (Diary) Wednesday, March 18th at 10:17PM EST (link)nt
If I understand Dodd correctly, that water may have been carried for Obama, too.
spainishirish (Diary) Wednesday, March 18th at 10:52PM EST (link)nt
Givven the porkulus last week
GregInFla (Diary) Wednesday, March 18th at 11:58PM EST (link)and the billions funneled to European banks via AIG, the $165M is chump change.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
True, but voters are focused on the bonuses
The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 11:36AM EST (link)not porkulous. They understand the bonuses-those numbers are small enough to understand, as are the misdeeds behind them. Porkulous is still incomprehensible to them. It’s one of those things all congress-critters do. So keep them focused on who enabled the bonuses – none of the Democratic leaders can escape responsibility for that. Either they conspired to help pass it, or they showed gross negligence in allowing it to be passed without their knowing about it. The voters are more than upset about this, and they intend to hold somebody responsible for it, and once they know who it is, they fully intend to make an example of that somebody so it never happens again.
Somebody will do it again anyway, but until their wrath has run its course, you don’t want to be in front of them, or even trying to divert their attention from it.
The difference between ignorance and apathy...
crux Thursday, March 19th at 12:01AM EST (link)I don’t know and I don’t care. Which is worse? That they ignorantly voted on the mechanism for the bonuses, or that they are deliberately lying about it. Either way, my schadenfreude abounds.
Adminsitration/Obama Officials
OccamsRazor (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 12:07AM EST (link)According to Dodd.
The four horseman of the apocalypse
Old_Crow (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 5:40AM EST (link)Obama, Dodd, Frank, and Schumer.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
One Big Sham
jeannieology (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 7:05AM EST (link)The whole thing is one big gigantic sham with ulterior motive
http://jeannieology.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/aig-ambush-invested-government/
C'mon RedState... help us become the reality party.
mainlandj Thursday, March 19th at 9:21AM EST (link)This is a perfect example of why you guys will never help win back the millions of Republicans who have left the Party.
1st– what’s with having the source of your information to be the exact same blog post in which you state your claim?
2nd– after I dug around (wasting my time to try to follow-up on whatever I was trying to “learn” on this site), I finally found a reference to what Chris Dodd has admitted to. Guess what? It’s not:
“Senator Chris Dodd is admitting that he added a provision to the stimulus package to protect the bonuses AIG intended to pay executives.”
It’s:
“Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., acknowledged that his staff agreed to dilute the executive pay provision that would have applied retroactively to recipients of federal aid. However, Dodd said he was not aware of any American International Group Inc. bonuses at the time the change was made.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/aig_bonus_congress
Criticize him for waffling for for trying to BS us, but when you try stretching the truth like this, you just lose credibility among those who’d like to believe in Republicans and the conservative movement again.
It's been two years, John Martin.
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 9:29AM EST (link)You’re a Democrat now.
Accept it.
Shoo.
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Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 9:33AM EST (link)…clicking that link to watch the twisting and flailing of a bunch of people who are slowly and reluctantly coming to the realization that they were lied to down the line; yet…
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Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 9:43AM EST (link)the scales are slowly falling from their eyes….at least for some of them.
Note to Erick though, I think he may have goofed up his link in the article…it really does go back to this same diary….I am pretty sure that Erick meant to link to this article.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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mainlandj: You ignorant ...
Martin Knight (Diary) Thursday, March 19th at 9:39AM EST (link)Do you know how poll taxes worked? They were for all intents and purposes racially neutral, but the “taxes” were carefully calculated to be just high enough in high minority (high poverty) population areas to make the majority black electorate have to choose between voting and eating for the next few days.
In other words, you dumb parsing dumbass, Chris Dodd here admits he deliberately inserted language into the TARP bill to strip out language that would have prevented bonuses from being paid to executives of failed companies being propped up by taxpayer dollars. Like the poll tax, he need not have mentioned AIG in particular, but it and companies like it, were very clearly the beneficiaries.
In other words, after this display of partisan hackery, it’s not Erick (or Redstate) that needs to be worried about losing credibility. You, I don’t really care about. Dodd, however …
I agree that
brandoncraig Friday, March 20th at 11:59PM EST (link)Mainlandj does make a good point in that we as conservatives need to start doing something to “help win back the millions of Republicans who have left the Party.” We can’t win national elections without a concentrated effort made to win these voters back.
While I certainly disagree with those Republicans who for whatever reason supported the Democrats in 2008, the reality is that millions did. We should make sure this never happens again.