Dodd yet to declare bid
By all accounts, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd is vulnerable.
With 20 months until he is up for re-election, Dodd has yet to announce whether he will seek another term. And the five-term senator’s prospects are by no means positive — he is suffering in the polls and is recovering from political scandal. But the uncertainty regarding Dodd’s candidacy transcends his career alone; many Democrats are anxious about the political ramifications of his delay.
“Chris Dodd’s poll numbers are of concern,” Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz ’83 said in a telephone interview with the...
Good Lord I hope Doddering Dodd is "vulnerable!"
As one of the primary architects of the collapse of the mortgage industry, by forcing Fannie Mae to accept worthless "sub-prime" mortages.
It's worse than ironic that he would now claim to be "working to solve" the crisis he and Barney Frank created.
Yeah, given that there's not much of a news peg here, I'm surprised by how little context we're given. There's so much Henny-Penny back-and-forth from various state experts about how much trouble he's in that we're left to guess at why Dodd's fortunes have changed so much since he stomped his '04 challenger. Did people not know about the Countrywide thing then? What makes Dodd a "prodigal" senator's son? Did the Qpac poll find that people still blame him significantly for the financial crisis? Were their views dimmed by his awful presidential campaign? Speaking of the financial crisis, can you believe Larry "Irrational Exuberance" Kudlow wants to run against him?
There's still an interesting story here. Try again.
"Although Dodd released hundreds of documents to the press last month..."
No he didn't. He briefly displayed some documents to a select group of reporters who were not allowed to make copies or take detailed notes.
Sloppy indeed. Dodd didn't release those documents by any reasonable definition of the word. He allowed a brief period for reporters to view them, but not to take any pictures or notes. Much less allowing copies to be made. Obviously this is completely insufficient to demonstrate Dodd's culpability one way or the other. This farce shows Dodd's disdain for the intelligence of the media and the voters.
"This farce shows Dodd's disdain for the intelligence of the media and the voters."
Based on the gullible acceptance of Dodd's slant on the situation by this reporter, that disdain is fully warranted.
We'll have to wait until 2010 to find out if his disdain for voters is warranted.
There exists at least one way for Sen. Dodd to easily get reelected....Actually it's a no-brainer.
Note: This would require the Senator to, shall we say, 'reinvent himself' & manifest all of the qualities of being an 'independent thinker' in contrast to some of his other senatorial colleagues.
That could be achieved via a couragious & sincere mea culpa--a 180 degree about face--on pro-life matters (i.e. by adopting a 100% 'sanctity of life' stance)#.
One would be quite amazed about how many citizens of the State of CT belong to faith communities that espouse just such a stance.
Should such a potential scenario take root, surely all would be forgiven concerning that CountryWide stuff (not to mention moving to Iowa etc...).
**Artists for Life**
# see Sen. Casey(D)PA
An Open Appeal to the Good People Of CT - from the remaining 49 US States.
Please DO NOT SEND Senator Dodd back to the US Senate. His involvement with Fannie/Freddie is a pure disgrace which has been much cause to the housing - economic breakdown...not to mention Countrywide. Now - as he 'fakes' being upset over the AIG bonus's...we are learning he is the main reason for it - adding verbiage to the stimulus bill that has guaranteed such payments? Now I ask you - why would he add to the bill via a ammendment "Bonus's will be reviewed - except those that were contractually obligated prior to February 11th, 2009"? Could it be he was paid top dollar from AIG...geez..what a go-wink-e-dink.....HE WAS. Please send him to retirement....Sincerely....the Good People of the Remaining 49 US States.
Dodd has made it crystal clear that he is in the pocket of the financial gangsters. If he had any respect for the people of the United States (never mind Connecticut!) he would resign IMMEDIATELY.
Dodd wasn't reelected in 2006...it was 2004. This piece is sloppy.