Terry read this one carefully because it is about all of the things that you are a Democrat for.
Chris Dodd's father was Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd. Thomas Dodd achieved the rare distinction of being censured by the Senate.
The elder Dodd was censured by the Senate for corruption in 1967. Dodd had converted campaign funds to his personal use. Dodd proceeded to lose the Democratic nomination for his Senate seat in 1970, but nevertheless returned to face the voters in 1970 as an independent. He lost a three-way race in which Lowell Weicker emerged victorious. I guess he thought he could pull a Lieberman.
One might have thought that the example of his father would have led the younger Dodd to conduct himself with great probity in office. On the contrary, however, with his preferentia mortgage extended to him by a company under his jurisdiction, his stonewalling about it, and his crooked Irish cottage, he showed that corruption ran in the family.
Like his father, Dodd was a formidable consumer of alcohol. Dodd's escapades with Teddy Kennedy inspired Kelly's aphorism: "Drunks are notoriously poor judges of distance, including the distance between fun and assault."
In the lawful performance of his official duties Dodd helped create the financial crisis. He was an ardent defender of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-sponsored entities that returned the admiration through financial support to Dodd's campaign. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac contributed more than $165,000 to Dodd. He was, after all, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Taxpayers took it seven ways from Sunday in the arrangement.
Dodd joined his corruption with a bullying liberal self-righteousness and condescension. It is a sickening combination. He richly deserved the thumping by the voters that his exit will unfortunately deprive them of administering.
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Unfortunately, some times apples do fall far from the tree.
George HW Bush is a Great American, a statesman, and a man too busy doing the peoples work to pay attention to the political costs of his courageous legislation. He was probably the best president in the 20th century in the field of foreign relations.
Apparently, GHWB was too busy being a congressman, diplomat, CIA chief, and party leader to be a good father to his children. His son, George W Bush does not feature any of his truly special qualities. Dubya is a mediocrity and would best have served his country had he stayed in Texas overseeing his cherished baseball franchise. So many of his failings are his father's strengths.
Go figure.
Time for a lot of Senator's to move on. I won't miss Dodd and his banking committee crony's. You can't defend his half hearted attempts at reform. Just like Republican's John Ensign, Larry (wide stance) Craig, David Vitter, Pete Domenici, ala the list goes on!!!!
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