Very few lawmakers know when to get out, says retiring Sen. Dodd

The Hill ^ | 5/18/10 | J. Taylor Rushing and Ian Swanson

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

Precious few politicians know when to leave the world of politics, according to retiring Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).

“We all know when to get into this business, or you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t,” Dodd said in an interview with The Hill in his office.

“I think very few know when to get out.”

Dodd, who describes life in the Senate and politics as “addictive in some ways,” chose to retire in January after enduring what he described as a “miserable” political situation.

The 30-year Senate incumbent faced poll numbers that suggested his party had a better chance of winning his seat without him. This followed a year of personal and political turbulence for the veteran senator, who led the healthcare bill through the Senate in December and is poised to complete action in the Senate this week on Wall Street reform, the second significant major legislative achievement of President Barack Obama’s first 16 months in office.

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

Lemee guess, the time to get out is just ahead of the cops.

[silverleaf]

Jaysus, Countrywide Dodd, just get over to your second house in Ireland and maybe ruin another country, me lad

[Diogenesis]

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AIG chiefs pressed to donate to Dodd
As Democrats prepared to take control of Congress after the 2006 elections,
a top boss at the insurance giant American International Group Inc. told colleagues that Sen. Christopher J. Dodd
was seeking re-election donations and he implored company executives and their spouses to give.
The message in the Nov. 17, 2006, e-mail from Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products chief executive, was unmistakable:
Mr. Dodd was "next in line" to be chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees the insurance industry,
and he would "have the opportunity to set the committee's agenda on issues critical to the financial services industry."

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"AIG's Small London Office May Have Lost $500B"
Ground zero for AIG's spectacular implosion, which has soaked up more federal bailout money
than any other entity, appears to have been a small London branch office
that may have lost nearly half a trillion dollars in bad deals."

[SMARTY]

You get out when you forget why you went!

[Mouton]

I guess he had amnesia the past three senatorial elections.

[From The Deer Stand]

Dodd and my congressman Dave Obey knew when it was time to get out.... not when they wanted to but when they knew they were headed for defeat in the election. Better to “retire” than to lose an election.

[maine yankee]

“We all know when to get into this business, or you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t,”

There’s the problem.

I never considered serving my country a ‘business’.

[LoveUSA]

poll numbers that suggested his party had a better chance of winning his seat without him

See, this is what I've suspected all along. Party leaders are telling these guys to resign so that younger, hopier candidates can go up against the Republicans.

[ontap]

And this asshat is one of them. You should have got out before you stole all that money!

[SMARTY]

By now in America, politicians have become a class of the most unprincipled, career a%$ clowns you will ever see!

NO ONE respects them or holds them to their word. They have the universal reputations of cheats, liars and worse (if that is possible) ...and I mean ALL of them.

Selling our a#$%$ down the river is incidental to THEIR personal, immediate and concrete gain.

[Pan_Yan]

Just in time to head off any indictments.

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

LOL

[bigbob]

Most especially, HIM. The pompous sack of shite!