Lucille
04-08-2009, 05:06 PM
CHRIS DODD UPDATE (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/75919/): Lieberman: Dodd Will Eventually Win Re-Election (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvhEIf5kS3aUDGCcyw6YchqM_dAwD97DQPPO1).
Joe Lieberman predicted Tuesday that voters will re-elect his beleaguered fellow Connecticut senator, Christopher Dodd, for the same reasons he attributes to his own comeback victory.
Lieberman said he thinks Dodd, the Senate banking chairman buffeted by controversies about Wall Street bonuses and home mortgages, has enough time until next year’s election to rebound from low approval ratings. . . .Dodd has slipped for several reasons: his role in writing a bill that protected bonuses for executives at bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc.; his initial refusal to release documents about his two controversial mortgages with Countrywide Financial Corp.; and his financing of a vacation cottage in Ireland.
Plus this: Can Dodd’s Challengers Resist Poison Cash (http://www.courant.com/hc-campaign-money-dodd-simmonsapr07-column,0,4294739.column)?
I really liked this piece from last weekend:
A corrupt Washington is paying us hush money (http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/05/edi_517159.shtml):
Meanwhile, with the power to give out our money as they wish, congressmen take campaign money from lobbyists and industries they regulate. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is only the latest poster boy for that, but boy is he a good one. There may be no one who better represents all that is wrong with Washington. The powerful Senate Banking Committee chairman got a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide; he has received $280,000 in campaign contributions from troubled insurer AIG; and he made sure that AIG executive bonuses were untouched by Congress -- then claimed for 24 hours that he knew nothing about it, before reporters forced him to admit the truth.
Polls show Dodd is in re-election trouble. But don't hold your breath: Despite record-low approval ratings for Congress last year, we continued sending our congressmen back at about a 90 percent retention rate.
We have, sadly, been corrupted.
Joe Lieberman predicted Tuesday that voters will re-elect his beleaguered fellow Connecticut senator, Christopher Dodd, for the same reasons he attributes to his own comeback victory.
Lieberman said he thinks Dodd, the Senate banking chairman buffeted by controversies about Wall Street bonuses and home mortgages, has enough time until next year’s election to rebound from low approval ratings. . . .Dodd has slipped for several reasons: his role in writing a bill that protected bonuses for executives at bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc.; his initial refusal to release documents about his two controversial mortgages with Countrywide Financial Corp.; and his financing of a vacation cottage in Ireland.
Plus this: Can Dodd’s Challengers Resist Poison Cash (http://www.courant.com/hc-campaign-money-dodd-simmonsapr07-column,0,4294739.column)?
I really liked this piece from last weekend:
A corrupt Washington is paying us hush money (http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/05/edi_517159.shtml):
Meanwhile, with the power to give out our money as they wish, congressmen take campaign money from lobbyists and industries they regulate. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is only the latest poster boy for that, but boy is he a good one. There may be no one who better represents all that is wrong with Washington. The powerful Senate Banking Committee chairman got a sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide; he has received $280,000 in campaign contributions from troubled insurer AIG; and he made sure that AIG executive bonuses were untouched by Congress -- then claimed for 24 hours that he knew nothing about it, before reporters forced him to admit the truth.
Polls show Dodd is in re-election trouble. But don't hold your breath: Despite record-low approval ratings for Congress last year, we continued sending our congressmen back at about a 90 percent retention rate.
We have, sadly, been corrupted.