No recession for Dodd

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | December 13, 2008 | Editorial

[Graybeard58]

With the 2006-08 election season quickly receding, it's time to take stock on how Chris Dodd did. To recap: While the housing and lending industries, overseen by the Banking Committee he chairs, were crumbling, Sen. Countrywide took 2007 off to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, eventually moving to Iowa to be closer to the voters he really cared about. Hey, with nearly $17 million in campaign dough, with his Senate pay and expense checks still coming in, and with all the money he'd saved on his mortgages, he could afford it.

The more than $16 million spent bought him 0.04 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses last January, earning him one of the 2,501 delegates to the Iowa Democratic State Convention.

Where did Sen. Dodd get all his campaign cash? Opensecrets.org, which compiles Federal Election Commission data, reports Sen. Dodd was the Senate's No. 1 recipient of grease from cruise lines; No. 2 from finance and credit companies; No. 3 from hedge funds and savings and loans; No. 4 from accountants, commercial banks, insurance, mortgage bankers and brokers, private equity and investment firms, the real estate industry, and security and investment companies; and No. 5 from lobbyists. (Among the top 5 in all those categories: Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.)

Taxpayers, too, chipped in almost $2 million toward Sen. Dodd's quixotic campaign. As of Oct. 31, he had $520,831 left over, which in due course he will transfer to his senatorial campaign to give him a fund-raising leg up for his 2010 re-election bid. In between, he has pledged to stay on as Banking Committee chairman in the next Congress. Why not? With all the bailout money the government is giving away to all the industries that give money to him, some of it's bound to make it into one or more of Sen. Dodd's pockets.

[Graybeard58]

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[lilylangtree]

I wondered how many and which of the congressional sleazerats would be benefiting from the taxpayer-funded bailout. Now I know one with the others yet to be i.d.’ed.

[Maxstake]

Note how the leaders in all Marxists controlled countries the leaders are extremely wealthy.

What can we expect with the ‘president elect the very Wealthy Marxist Imam Obama and the Marxist Congress.

Maxstake

[Gigantor]

Wasn’t Dodd the chairman of the DNC during the Clinton fundraising scandal years. How does he avoid prosecution, is the hair?

[kempo]

How does he avoid prosecution? Are Democrats ever charged and prosecuted unless they step out of bounds with fellow Democrat politicians?

[raybbr]

Dodd should really be in jail. He’s a disgrace to the United States. But. Just like Blagojevich in IL the idiots here in CT will re-elect him in 2010. It’s truly getting embarrassing to be part of the dumbest electorate in the history of man.

[nathanbedford]

If Mr. Romney wants to be the next Republican nominee for president of the United States (and he undoubtedly does) here is a wonderful opportunity for him. Let him go into Connecticut and make a speech excoriating Senator Dodd for the matters laid out in this article and for his egregious self interest in accepting sweetheart financing from the very entities he was supposed to be regulating as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

Shame on you Senator Dodd.

There Mitt, that was not so hard was it?

Is there a Republican anywhere who is willing to take the battle to the enemy? Why are we sitting on our hands letting these people shape the landscape? Senator Dodd is virtually a criminal yet he continues in his role as chief overseer? The whole economy is slipping into socialism as a whistle stop on the way to utter bankruptcy and we have no Paladin who can make the case and give people an idea of why we are in this situation? Are we going to lose the next election by default? Are the odds against us not already long enough?

[steelyourfaith]

One of the most contemptible of the congress critters.

[Rummyfan]

This crook Dodd along with that fat-**** hypocrite Barney Frank should be under indictment at the very least, and in jail under the best of circumstances.

[TheThinker]

In a recession or depression, the rich become super-rich.

[Rummyfan]

Is there a Republican anywhere who is willing to take the battle to the enemy?

I'm waiting. We're waiting....

[NTHockey]

Liberals cannot be trusted with money, legal or otherwise.

Can someone photoshop his picture onto a wanted poster? The caption could read: “Wanted for Impersonating a Human Being”

[Political Junkie Too]

I wonder how the cruise business is doing in Iowa these days?

-PJ

[rvoitier]

If memory serves, no.

I remember Mcauliffe, Fowler and one other guy not Dodd.

[MozarkDawg]

I remember Mcauliffe, Fowler and one other guy not Dodd.

David Wilhelm

[Cheetahcat]

Seems like the larger the Chit Bag the longer the term in the house, direct relationship. Most likely an inability to survive in the private sector without bankruptcy or Prison would be the reason .

[Free_SJersey]

"Is there a Republican anywhere who is willing to take the battle to the enemy?"

Short answer-no. Long answer- noooo.

The political situation in this country leaves me feeling that I have no voice. Too many of the Republican idiots spent too much effort trying to be seen as trying to reach out across the isle to the Democrat traitors (yes, I said it- they usurp the Constitution, that's what they are), when in fact they're desperate to hold hands with them.

I say throw all of them out.

[Bullish]

I say throw all of them out.

Starting with that Suckup, glad-handing liberal, John McLame.