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BREAKING: I was responsible for bonus loophole, says Dodd (Dodd thrown under bus by obama)
CNN Political Ticker ^ | 3-18-09

Posted on 03/18/2009 3:35:37 PM PDT by utahson

Senate Banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told CNN’s Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer Wednesday that he was responsible for adding the bonus loophole into the stimulus package that permitted AIG and other companies that received bailout funds to pay bonuses.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 111th; aig; bailout; chrisdodd; connecticut; ct; democrats; democratscongress; dodd; dodo; dood; dud; dudd; dunce
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To: Danae
Yea, but is he going to retire? face indictment on bribery and/or ethics charges?

Nah, probably not in either of our scenarios. But a girl can dream.

181 posted on 03/18/2009 9:23:38 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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To: utahson

Oh does no one else read the bills they vote on? The responsibility lies with them all.


182 posted on 03/18/2009 9:31:18 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: SIDENET

New tagline...


183 posted on 03/18/2009 9:31:41 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: mountainbunny

Yes, yes I can. Often its about having enough money to afford a Maid......... (sigh)


184 posted on 03/18/2009 9:32:46 PM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

LOL.


185 posted on 03/18/2009 10:40:31 PM PDT by SIDENET (President Obama's teleprompter has issued a stern warning to corporate executives)
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To: fooman

Indeed. Why hasn’t this man been strung up already for his pattern of gross mismanagement throughout this whole affair? (D) - oh, that’s why.


186 posted on 03/18/2009 11:43:41 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: utahson; All

It smells like *hit all over this rat. First he lies, then he says the admin took part, now it’s all him!?

No one there to pull your strings at the beginning, Dodd?


187 posted on 03/19/2009 1:02:01 AM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: utahson

He has nothing to worry about. CNN stuck his name on the screen they left out DEMOCRAT. Americans are so stupid they’ll think he’s a Republican.


188 posted on 03/19/2009 2:11:04 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Lancey Howard
Dodd will be re-elected because Connecticut voters will see how “honest” he is by admitting he lied.

That's it. No confusion.

189 posted on 03/19/2009 2:14:37 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: All
Police in Conn. chase outbreak of cockfighting
Boston Globe, March 16, 2009 By Keith O'Brien
FR Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 by GQuagmire

WATERBURY, Conn. - From a garage near an abandoned factory in the south end of town - the sound of squawking in the night. It's an odd noise.... But police in Waterbury knew exactly what they were dealing with. It was another cockfight.(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...

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Rahm Emanuel instructed Obama to send a memo to Barney Frank: "Stay home, Barney. This is not what you think it is."

Too late......Barney had already left a message for Chris Dodd saying that he could not wait to see Dodd's (cough) package.

190 posted on 03/19/2009 2:30:07 AM PDT by Liz (I was like Snow White, then I drifted. Mae West (on liberalism.)
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To: Wpin

Our financial system has collapsed when the Fed is printing a trillion dollars to buy treasury bonds and mortgage backed securites.

I don’t dispute Dem deregulation opened this whole can of worms but that deregulation was heavily supported ($$$) by Wall Street. AIG was one of the main enablers in this whole fiasco along with the mostly dim politicians they bribed.

Without AIG and their ilk writing that CDS paper these banks would not have been able to sell their nicely repackaged crud liar loans in such large amounts. It’s great that these altruistic employees wiped that trillion dollars in liabilities off the AIG books. Too bad a similar amount and more has been transferred over to our books due to the negligence of their company.


191 posted on 03/19/2009 3:18:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

So, you don’t think that regulations calling for making loans to individuals who beforehand did not qualify for those loans had anything to do with the mess? And, you blame the banks for wrapping those loans (they were forced to make) up in huge packages, mixed in with good loans of course in efforts to spread the risk as something evil with the banks?

What governmental group can you name that in the past year removed a TRILLION DOLLARS of liabilities?

Personally, I think those people who helped do that deserve twice the bonus they got.

The reason we are going to lose our freedom in this nation is because good people simply do not understand what has happened, what is going on, and how it relates to freedom.


192 posted on 03/19/2009 4:31:07 AM PDT by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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To: originalbuckeye

“Zero is heading for a fall that he won’t be able to avoid.”

I hope so but I don’t think the MSM will let him fall.


193 posted on 03/19/2009 4:41:42 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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Dodd: Administration pushed for language protecting bonuses
(Dodd Throws Obama under The Bus)
CNN | 3-18-09 | Ed Hornick Kristi Keck
Posted on 03/18/2009 5:56:04 PM PDT by icwhatudo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2209577/posts


194 posted on 03/19/2009 5:40:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: caver
I hope so but I don’t think the MSM will let him fall.

A reporter got close enough to Zero yesterday to ask if he was going to return his $101,000 AIG bonus. He did not answer. Maybe there is hope for the LSM.

195 posted on 03/19/2009 5:56:33 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90

“A reporter got close enough to Zero yesterday to ask if he was going to return his $101,000 AIG bonus. He did not answer. Maybe there is hope for the LSM.”

Great! I hadn’t heard that.


196 posted on 03/19/2009 6:10:31 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: caver
“A reporter got close enough to Zero yesterday to ask if he was going to return his $101,000 AIG bonus. He did not answer. Maybe there is hope for the LSM.”

Hopefully that reported will connect the Dots and ask if Obama is going to give back the donations he got from all thos Firms AIG gave billions to with the 180 Billion given to them by the Treasury.

197 posted on 03/19/2009 6:12:23 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: utahson

Don’t believe this BS.

Obama profited from this which is why it is in there. he was taking care of his cronies who contributed to him
http://www.examiner.com/x-268-Right-Side-Politics-Examiner~y2009m3d17-Obama-Received-a-101332-Bonus-from-AIG

I bet that Dodd was TOLD to put it in there. yep he is falling on the sword, but not because he wants to.
Obama is racking up political enimies by the numbers now.


198 posted on 03/19/2009 9:04:20 AM PDT by Munz (Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
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To: utahson

Another willing martyr for the chosen one, the glorious messiah.


199 posted on 03/19/2009 11:25:39 AM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Kudsman

caption-THRILLED AT YET ANOTHER SCREWING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

I despise them all (to say the least)


200 posted on 03/19/2009 12:02:02 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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