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 ...
I don't think Dodd is that honorable. More likely it's worst than we know and he's trying to skate out of it.
I've had the pleasure of voting against Dodd twice now but he still keeps getting reelected. Things maybe be different this time around. The tide maybe turning for this POS.
Yesterday he said he wrote it but some “bearded stranger” changed it in committee without his knowledge.
Is it time to throw ‘under the bus’ under the bus?
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
By L.A. Johnson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08184/894024-51.stm
Tar and feather this turkey!
CNBC 3 minutes ago:
In a stunning development, Sen. Christopher Dodd said that Obama administration officials asked him to add language to last month’s federal stimulus bill to make sure the controversial AIG bonuses remained in place
Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, told CNN that Obama officials wanted the language added to an amendment limiting bonuses that could be paid by companies. He said they were afraid that without it, the government would face numerous lawsuits.
On Tuesday, Dodd denied to CNN that he had anything to do with adding the language, which has been used by officials at AIG [AIG 1.38 0.42 (+43.75%) ] to justify paying millions of dollars in bonuses to executives after receiving
“Re: “So does Leno have the balls to ask Obama about it?”
yes he will:
Leno, fawning:
Is this AIG thing bad?
BO: yes it is.
Will it get better?
BO: yes it will.
Leno resumes fawning
Dodd was on one of the news broadcasts a bit earlier.
He was saying that he didn’t insert the ‘date’ language in to the bill, that it was inserted by the compromise committee.
Good start .....now get out Dodd !
Next !
300 and 1 some odd socialists to go !
So what is going on here. It doesn’t look like he is falling on the sword if he is blaming Obama’s office for “making” him do it.
Top AIG recipients for the 2008 campaign:
1. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., $103,100
2. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., $101,332
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7110145&page=1
What a f’n liar! He’s still not telling the full truth.
Popcorn please, extra butter.
Nice spin but those AIG FP employees were generously compensated while they steered SS AIG straight into the iceberg. That they needed a payoff to stick around and try to mitigate the horrific damage their company caused is nothing short of blackmail. Some of them belong in government issued pinstripes for issuing trillions of dollars of junk paper and collapsing our financial system.
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