Posted on 06/19/2009 10:48:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58
In the last Quinnipiac poll, 49 percent of respondents said Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd is dishonest. It's easy to see why. Sen. Dodd is one of the longest-serving members of the Senate Banking Committee, and as its chairman has been instrumental in arranging the multigenerational-taxpayer-funded bailout of lending institutions that have bankrolled his political campaigns for decades. By sheer coincidence, Sen. Dodd would have you believe, his wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd, co-signer of the sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial, serves on the board of CME Group, the world's largest futures exchange, which answers to Sen. Dodd's committee.
In February, Sen. Dodd wrote the amendment to the "stimulus" bill that specifically exempted executives at AIG Financial Services in Wilton from a provision capping compensation for the top brass of companies that got bailout bucks. By sheer coincidence, Sen. Dodd would have you believe, he is the No. 1 beneficiary of campaign contributions from AIG executives who must kowtow to him and his committee. And it's doubly coincidental that Mrs. Dodd once was a director for an off-shore company controlled by AIG.
Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy now has passed the universal-health-care baton to Sen. Dodd, the No. 2 man on the Senate Health Committee. By sheer coincidence, Sen. Dodd would have you believe, Mrs. Dodd sits on the boards of four health-care companies. For her service, she was paid $500,000 annually in 2007 and 2008, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Though he's in charge of shepherding Obamacare through Congress, he protests he and his wife have no conflict of interest because Mrs. Dodd is on the board of "research companies" that aren't "involved at all" in health-care reform. Because everyone knows pharmaceutical companies and Brookdale Senior Living Inc., the nation's largest operator of assisted-living communities, have no stake in the outcome of this debate.
"She never lobbies in Congress, never been up petitioning on their behalf at all," Sen. Dodd told Fox News.
But she doesn't have to lobby or petition or do anything more than wink or nod because with $500,000 a year at stake, her interests are his interests, and she literally is in bed every night with the senator in charge of Obamacare.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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The frustrating thing is, he’s sucking wind right now and is in the ditch with his poll numbers, but we have to remember he’s in CT. He’ll convince them (rather easily, I think) between now and 2010, that in this “time of need,” people CT absolutely NEED him and will shrivel and disappear if he’s not in D.C. “representing” them. It’ll be fun watching him squirm, but in the end, he’ll end up winning by 10+% and the media will crow in utter amazement how he engineered such an “incredible comeback.”
Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy now has passed the universal-health-care baton to Sen. Dodd, the No. 2 man on the Senate Health Committee. By sheer coincidence, Sen. Dodd would have you believe, Mrs. Dodd sits on the boards of four health-care companies. For her service, she was paid $500,000 annually in 2007 and 2008, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
There is nearly nothing in washington dc, other than historical artifacts, that is worth saving. It should be restored to the swamp land from whence it came.
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