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Subscribe to RSSAfter 30 years of service in the United States Senate, Democrat Chris Dodd used a farewell speech to the chamber Tuesday to issue a plea for civility in government and to warn against major reforms to the Senate’s filibuster rules.
Throughout his career, Dodd, who was first elected to the House in 1974 and the Senate in 1980, played a major role in legislation that changed the landscape of American life, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and mortgage and financial reform laws.
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Dodd, himself the son of a senator, chose not to seek re-election last December after his poll numbers showed a serious decline in his popularity.
Earlier this year, NBC’s Ken Strickland sat down with Dodd as part of a week-long Web series about the departing members of the Senate. Read a transcript of that interview here.
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Let the bashing & teeth gnashing of Senator Dodd begin in 3...2...1...
The upside is he's NOTbeing replaced by the steroid queen of the WWF!
Thank you to the voters of CT for proving that no matter how much of her personal fortune Linda McMahon spent... there is ONE thing her money couldn't buy and that was the ELECTION!
Just goes to show that only Democraps can successfully buy elections, right? See? CT isn't so different from IL, is it Feisty?
Good riddance to half of the team that brought us the housing collapse and were largely responsible for the recession that we are suffering. Their support for Fannie and Freddie has cost the country billions of dollars. Dodd was smart to retire as he knew he could not get re-elected. Too bad that Barney didn't quit too. We will have to wait til next election to get him out of congress. The Dodd/Frank unholy alliance is now officially over. Dodd was just an ordinary crook who got special low interest rate loans in exchange for favorable votes for the banking industry. Sweet deal. He should be very proud. Good riddance.
greek,
you are brilliantly correct!
dodd and frank were so instrumental in the collapse of our economy and the VALUE OF EVERY ONE OF OUR HOUSES, that they should quit in tandem. hey fiesty, you like that your house value tanked 25-40% due to your beloved frank/dodd, enjoy THAT through your hyper-partisan blindness glasses!
unfortunately, obama put them in charge of fixing the problem they created instead of BRINGING THEM UP ON CHARGES! we should have hearing on their corruption relative to freddie/fannie and the CRA.
Don't forget to take ole' Barney boy/girl with you. LISP LISP LISP Slobber.........
feisty,
when you have such a high ratio of lame people in YOUR party i guess it's expected that you have to say lame stuff like:
Let the bashing & teeth gnashing of Senator Dodd begin in 3...2...1
huh?
Feisty-Time and time again you prove that you are a moron and your support for Dodd solidifies that fact. Dodd is an example of what is wrong in Washington and what needs to be flushed from the system.
f he wasn't a fiscal cheat he would still be employed
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Feisty...
It's "Connecticut"....a Republican candidate could spend a billion dollars and not win a US Senate seat here.
Instead of a "queen of the WWF" we get a camera-hog of a politician who could not remember that he did not fight on the battlefields of Vietnam.
This guy was horrible, his involvement with the bank industry was called bribery. He and other members of the board got special mortgage refi rates from his crownies. Who else gets .2% interest on their refi. His general obstruction was a main contributor to our problems and the first to scream at the banks and call for reform when word slips out into the media about his special refi's. He was the loudest critic only to save his own butt. I'm glad his polls are horrible and he didn't run. Hopefully they'll pin something on him after 3 yrs of investigating but I doubt it.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and the Fannie/Freddie implosion happened while he was supposed to be providing the oversight. He saw none of it coming. Former President Bush had continually warned the Senate and House representatives supposedly in charge, that he felt nervous about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's financial stability.
Chris Dodd and Barney Frank scoffed at Mr. Bush's warnings...yet took very little blame after the housing market fell to pieces. They simply blamed the crash on Mr. Bush, since everything else in the solar system was being blamed on him anyway.
I am glad to see him go! If only Barney Frank would have left with him.
Boy, FRR, can you call 'em or what?
Predictable dickweeds.
Truth hurts don't it.
You can set your watch by these clowns... lol
They like those 'self-winder' watches. You know, with all that wrist action going on, never need to worry about 'em going dead. Hell, I bet Boehner can change hands in mid air, and gain two strokes!
Not like that Mitch McConnel duffer, who changes hands in mid air, and forgets what he was doing....
Brilliant post, drive-by; it proves my point that libs simply cannot make a comment without the mandatory namecalling!
By the way, good riddance Senator Dodd; Fannie & Freddie will be happy to see you go!
DBO:
You're killing me with the hand jobs... errrr.... I mean jokes!
Mandatory name-calling, spider? Y' think maybe 'yabecoo' is a 'lib' perhaps?
Generalize, much, do ya?
Think again.
It's called sarcasm, yabecoo.
Get it?
I heard Barney was seeking a TSA patdown job.
Nooooo.....he's a volunteer at any Massachusetts airport that has TSA agent call in sick. Some say that he's also offered to help out at neighboring Rhode Island airports also.
Thanks for wrecking the economy, "A" hole. I'd like to say "Good riddance to bad rubbish" but that won’t apply as I know this dick will be back trolling the halls of Congress as a lobbyist making even more money than the sweetheart deal he set up for his wife.
yes good ridance to the self serving clown, but let's remember how much the all repub congress did between 1994 and 2006 before any of you across the isle start up to vigorously. Its the pot calling the kettle black when the repubs chime in.
NOPE, we won't forget him.
We have blogs set up, what ever this guy does, will be reported to the public.
You can check in, who ever this low life works for will be subject to a boycott.
Senator Dodd can expect this as long as he lives.
Name one that wasn't or isn't a self serving clown........from any party!
You partisan hacks kill me!
From Fannie/Freddie... to Country Wide... to AIG... to the Irish cottage, one of the more insidious crooks ever to walk the Senate floor. Perhaps now he will have a bit more time for his more favorite activities, abusing scotch whiskey and chasing women.
He will have to do battle with Boner to abuse the scotch whiskey. I think Boner has a market on it.
verno, that was very 4th grade-ish! boner and uh uh you are!, really!!! come on!
verno
"He will have to do battle with Boner to abuse the scotch whiskey. I think Boner has a market on it."
Only you would know. Maybe he is taking away from your stash.
Like they say: It's been fun. It's been real. But, it darn sure hasn't been real fun. Chris Dodd you are a crook and you will be remembered that way. You went before this whole nation and swore that Fannie and Freddie were on solid ground. You got your kick-back and the American public got kicked in the nads. No thank you for your service.
Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. Don't go away mad, just go away!!!! Career politician= SCUMBAG.
Done enough damage - figured he he had to fly the coop.
Chris, the people didn't want you anymore. Your very embarrassing decline in the polls proved that, among others that got their butts kicked in your party too. I can't imagine why it took them so long to find out what kind of lack of character you really have. It takes libs a long while to really get it.... not the brightest people I guess. Good riddance to really bad rubbish. Oh, btw, is Barney still going "steady" with the same guy at Freddie or Fannie.....whichever one it was.
Nancy, of course the liar that she is, didn't clean the swamp, but the American people cleaned a lot of that swamp on Nov 2....very humiliating loss for all those Dems. Hopefully, the entire swamp will be cleared out in 2012.
I do really hope Barack will now give up his partisan ways he has shown since being President, and really want to work with the Repubs. He hasn't done this since he was elected. But, I want to believe there is always hope for people like him.
Audios....MF
Good riddance................
If this crowd is any indication, the plea for civility has fallen on deaf ears.
Goodbye Senator Dodd, your supporters will miss you the others won't.
Well thats a brilliant summary!
Dodd should consider himself fortunate not to have been caned like Sen Sumner from MA. The recent actions committed by Dodd and his ilk are inexcusable.
He didn't run again because he knew the heat would be on. Good riddance.
Now, if Connecticut can just get rid of Lieberman
Good riddance and rot in hell for your crimes against the american people.
hummmmm. He helped give you the right to family leave in case it was necessary. You do know what that means. Seems like everyone only can remeber what Bush started and then the Republicans put in Palin so McCain would not be elected. Nothing to read here.
Yes, family leave is great, unless you leave your employer high and dry.
On to his banking job. I'm thinking JP Morgan Chase or Goldman Sachs. Nice 7 figure income per year. Plus perks. By the end of February 21011. Goodbve, Chris. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, you sellout
Go you to your little Irish cottage and don't let the door hit you in the ass...
Wow he must have been one powerful Senator to ram all that through when the Congress and Whitehouse were both in Republican hands. Personally I would say he has been a mixed bag like most of them. Interesting how so many comments here are so completely ill informed on the causes of the economic collapse, you would think most of these people are getting their news from FOX or something. In any case for a good quick primer check out wikipedia here --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2010 and there are a ton of great references at the bottom as well as scores of books on the subject. To blame it on Chris Dodd is simply ludi
Feisty-Time and time again you prove that you are a moron and your support for Dodd solidifies that fact. Dodd is an example of what is wrong in Washington and what needs to be flushed from the system.
This has been nothing more than the farewell performance of another POSTER BOY for TERM LIMITS. Wake up America, the Congress of the United States will never impose term limits upon themselves, they have the perfect job. It will be up to we the people to put term limits in place and the time to do it is NOW!
Christopher Dodd: Your ole man was a bum and so are you. The rotten apple doesn't fall from the tree. The fact that you actually once aspired to be POTUS is absolutely frightening to me.
Feisty Red Head: How do ya like them apples? Can it stop your silly, bleeding heart?
Dodd was a crook, took bribes from Wall Street's Lobbyist. These SOB's leave office after screwing the system & walk away with plenty. None of them deserve the money they get, they sure as hell didn't merit any of it with the Pi$$ Poor Shape were in.
Funny how 1/2 the tag team duo to bring accountability to housing took payoffs on the downlow? They are ALL crooks. Flipping lying back stabbing b-stards they would probably sell their mom for an addl ounce of power and surely sold their soul for it. S T U P I D and sad. Now if only Barney "rubble" can get ousted and I mean from politics not the closet maybe we can get someone to oversee this with dignity but since that has to come from washington I guess we will still get screwed just by new names and faces.
If FMLA had remained as it was originally passed that would be an argument for being something good. Because it was modified a few years later it is now worthless. Being charged both your vacation time and FMLA at the same time was not in the original act. In addition it was meant for time off to assist a family member (hense the name). They now can charge you FMLA time for being sick/hospitalized yourself. Doesn't anyone even remember the original act? They said it would give fathers time off to help mom take care of the little one when you first brought the kid home and give give you time off to help your sick and ailing parents. It didn't take businesses long to figure out a way to change all that and get their political payrollees to kill the original concept in a way that was better for them. For someone who pushed to get the original act through he sure caved when it came time to protect it.