Posted on 03/23/2009 9:45:44 AM PDT by raybbr
We’re not going to mince words. Chris Dodd is a lying weasel. It is hard enough to swallow that the senator had no idea that he got preferential treatment on his home mortgages that saved him thousands of dollars. Or that, simply out of friendship, a wealthy New York man, who was later convicted in a huge stock swindle, picked up much of the cost of a condo Dodd bought in Washington; or that the stock swindler’s business partner out of a love of Ireland did the same for Dodd when the senator bought a waterfront house in Ireland.
Now, Dodd flat-out has lied about his role in legislation that is allowing employees of American International Group to receive $400 million in bonuses despite receiving $173 billion in taxpayer money to keep the failed financial giant alive.
We praised Dodd on March 9 for authoring an amendment to the $787 billion stimulus bill that barred the top executives and highest-paid workers at companies that took government bailout money from receiving bonuses. Sharply down in opinion polls, Dodd was riding the wave of public anger at Wall Street’s greed.
What Dodd did not reveal at the time was that there was a provision in his amendment that exempted any bonuses, including AIG’s, in contracts dated prior to Feb. 11. The exemption was cited by Obama administration officials as the reason they were powerless to stop AIG’s payment of the bonuses.
(Excerpt) Read more at newhavenregister.com ...
Here is one little thing. But it’s telling. No word on his wife’s complicity yet.
PLUS his wife WORKED for AIG!! LOL!!! TWO crooks for the price of one!
“I know this is a bit old. But. I never thought this newspaper would EVER question Dodd. “
I been writing the NH Journal for 25 years calling Dodd a liar. Nice that they finally caught up.
They’re greasing the skids....look for his to retire and not run again...who’s the likely Dem candidate?
A Lying Weasel? ROFLMAO. Finally some truth from a lib paper.
Could this be the beginning of the end for Dodd? I would be so pyched! Read today that NY Gov Paterson approval is at 19%. I’m praying that things shape up and continue for 2010!!!
Oh, dear God! You might be right. The guy who's been talked about for gov. is Blumenthal, our state's Attorney General. He'd be just as bad if not more so. He's an attorney that loves to sue companies and take money from anyone HE thinks doesn't deserve it.
Yes, we are watching a demonstration of the Democrats’ techniques and recipes for cooking their own goose. Yum. My only problem with this article is accuracy: he is not a lying weasel, he is a lying crapweasel.
bttt
It is easier to tell us what Dodd did not lie about.
It seems the pigs are taxying to the runway.
It will not matter one bit to liberals socialist moocher voters. He is their liar. I bet he wins easily.
Careful. Some of us FReepers are from CT. The prospects of getting rid of him look better now than they ever have.
All he has to do is get up and say. I will tax the evil wealthy and give it to the Moocher class.
I can’t help but think that the Obamunists have picked THE WRONG patsy here....
Dodd knows where ALL of the bodies are buried, and has been at the center of Democrat Corruption for DECADES.
Caroline Kennedy?
Does anyone know the name of one Congressman/woman on Capitol Hill of either party that isnt a liar?
Sad, but true. Just a little tiff between girl friends.
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