Posted on 08/12/2009 3:35:12 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
In the political surprise of the summer, Chris Dodd—cleared in the Countrywide scandal and fresh from cancer surgery—is on the verge of saving his career. An exclusive interview with Lloyd Grove.
Ailing Connecticut senator Chris Dodd, who underwent successful prostate surgery Tuesday at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, appears to be on the mend politically as well. In what might be the political surprise of the summer, Dodd is on the verge of saving his career.
“I think so—we’re getting them back,” the 65-year-old Dodd told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview the night before he went under the knife, when asked if he feels like he’s making headway with voters still angry about his various missteps of the past 18 months. “It was getting back even before last Friday. I got a sense that the hemorrhaging had stopped
"Chris Dodd said he that even before he was cleared in the Countrywide imbroglio, he was mounting a political comeback. “I got a sense that the hemorrhaging had stopped.”
On Friday, the Senate Ethics Committee cleared Dodd of wrongdoing in the Countrywide Financial imbroglio with a wrist-slap, saying he should have been more careful about appearances once he realized he was getting VIP treatment for a couple of 2003 personal mortgages as a so-called “friend of Angelo” Mozilo, Countrywide’s beleaguered CEO. “We got some good news on Friday, so we got a monkey off our back.”
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A miracle made in hollywood.
Is this a lying contest of some sort???
just came here for the CZJ photos. Guess I’m too early
What? CZJ and Chris "gimme a free mortgage" Dodd did the dirty? Wow, I really should have gone into politics.
Warn the waitresses.
Well, we’ve gone this far astray on this thread, someone may as well go ahead and post the pic. I would but I don’t know how!
Ahhh. There we go. You fixed the thread!
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