BREAKING: Senator Chris Dodd Will NOT Seek Re-Election
Politico broke the story about an hour ago. Bail world headquarters has been in celebration mode with adult beverages, dancing girls and low 'fives' for 59 minutes.
One of the true, captured, Capitol Hill scumbags is on his way out the door after a 30-year career built on the sturdy foundation of Father Nepotism as well as tens of millions in career campaign contributions (bribes) from Wall Street investment banks.
More coming shortly; I've got a drink to finish.
New video on the way from Dodd earlier this year that will have you stoked for his departure.
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Update: Found the clip (below); the dish is Jane Hamsher, founder of Fire Dog Lake.
Democrats lose Byron Dorgan (actually one of the few Democratic voices of sanity on debt and deficit issues) and Captured Christopher in a span of 12 hours.
Realistically, it could help the DEMs because Schiff would have crushed Dodd, and now they at least have a fighting chance with popular state AG Richard Blumenthahl, a Spitzer style crusader.
And given his record, we begin the countdown to Dodd's inevitable move to K Street where a 7-figure job lobbying his former committee most assuredly awaits.
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(Text below is from FDL's youtube page)
In an interview on March 6 in his office on Capitol Hill with Jane Hamsher and Marcy Wheeler of FDL, Chris Dodd -- Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee -- promised to ask the Fed which banks they are lending to.
On January 13 of this year, Fed Vice Chair Donald Kohn refused to answer Rep. Alan Grayson when he testified before the House Financial Services Committee when asked to name the banks that the Fed was lending to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0JAf...
According to Bloomberg, the Fed has now lent, spent or $12.8 trillion dollars. There is no federal agency with the authority to exert oversight of the Fed.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi...
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Jan 6, 2010 at 1:57 AM
Reader Comments (25)
I think the agency that oversees criminals is the Federal Board of Prisons.
Sen. Dodd won't seek re-election
Byron Dorgan's announcement surprises Democrats
Chris Dodd Embraces Secrecy and Bailouts, Redux
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124321&page=1
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dodd's family ties to the Senate...
Frightening Aspects of Barack Obama - A Historical and Constitutional Survey Based Upon Reason
What currently scares me so about Barack Hussain Obama are his generic public proclamations of proposed economic and political change, which, of course, were responsible, along with his teleprompter oratory, for 54 % of the electorate putting him dubiously in the White House (his eligibility is still suspect). Every reasonable citizen wants change that is for the better, but Obama's ready acceptance of, and apparent adoration for, the federal Executive Branch institutions that have created, and are still creating, the awful problems which the United States republic inexorably faces, politically and economically are very frightening. Shortly after being elected, President-Elect Obama made a statement to the media concerning, among other things, the Central Intelligence Agency and other quasi-government organizations, which need to be closely scrutinized in light of accurate historical facts, of which Obama should be cognizant. He said, as reported in a recent "Washington Post" article, that he "admires the past achievements of the CIA and considers it an honorable intelligence organization, that the Federal Reserve is essential to the financial security of the United States, and that the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tri-lateral Commission are indispensable to the American government. Well, concerning the history of the Company (the famous nickname of the CIA), there have been quite a few polices, or laws, created and implemented unilaterally by the Executive Branch, via the CIA, which were quietly and covertly authorized, and not legislated, by the Congresses which convened during the twenty-or-so years immediately following the Second World War. These de facto laws, if you want to call them that, were then, and even now, unknown to most citizens of the American republic during what was known as the Cold War. Even if you had been regularly sitting in the galleries of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives during open floor deliberations of proposed laws and resolutions, between 1946 and 1966, there were Senate and House bills decided in closed select committees (those comprising a few privileged senators, representatives, and "appointed" executive officers) which were never openly debated, nor voted-on and passed, by the assembled general congresses, but which determined U.S. domestic and foreign policy. In many cases these "laws" and policies were also totally unknown to most of the senators and representatives composing the general Senate and House of Representatives.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Frightening-Aspects-of-Barack-Obama---A-Historical-and-Constitutional-Survey-Based-Upon-Reason&id=3507446
It is a shame for those who elected him...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvpMi7cl8ok
here's a link for you...you are well prepared for the onslaught according to biggs...
http://www.businessinsider.com/barton-biggs-stock-a-safe-haven-with-food-and-firearms-to-protect-against-pillagers-2010-1
woman goes nuts over poorly-prepared mcdonald's hamburger...video
I hate to see it come to that, but it has been building since 1913, and generation after generation continues in the belief of "borrowing our way to prosperity". All while blaming the other herd.
Every coin has two sides, but it is still the same coin...
Way to take the cowards way out, Dodd! You knew you had a snowballs chance in hell in getting reelected. So what do you do? You are dropping out. Glad to see you go Dodd, and I have even less respect for you now that you are taking the cowards way out. Good riddance!
But this sudden desertion by so many in Washington and even in state government (Colorado governor just announced he won't be running).... makes me feel uneasy.
Almost like they know what's coming and are making tracks.
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A Man's Country Is Not A Certain Area Of Land, Of Mountains, Rivers, And Woods, But It Is A Principle...
And Patriotism Is Loyalty To That Principle - George William Curtis
They do know whats coming!
They are cashing out and running for the hills. Most likely we will have to hunt them down later to bring them to trial for treason. But I think this is the year the normal citizen to run for congress or some sort of state delegate! we can still take our country back, just do your part! National Caucus is on Feb 2. If your not familiar with this you should be. The internet will tell you everything you need to know about this, or visit http://www.campaignforliberty.com
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"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
Thomas Jefferson
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win!"
GANDHI
Good riddance you oligarch swine.
Give this man your money. It'll be worthless in 2015 without him.
http://schiffforsenate.com/
BANK HOLIDAY BEING PLANNED
TAKE OUT YER' MONEY WHILE YOU STILL CAN! WWIII IS COMIN' AND THE GOVT. NEEDS YER' MONEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5O8sHU-DAk
don't fall for that crap...now, as for moving your money, that's a good idea...
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yes...ding dong the pig is dead...and off to K Street...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
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not sure of the validity of this study...
Snowstorm squelches climate change protest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_elkhart_glimmer_of_hope
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100101/D9CUTBK81.html
You're doing it wrong! Chinese demolition men accidentally create the leaning tower of Liuzhou
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/