Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris ("I didn't know I was getting special treatment") Dodd is acting mighty righteous these days. Fulminating, too.
But he isn't fooling Michelle Malkin who today posted - - "Chris Dodd: For AIG bonuses before he was against them."
It begins - - -
Kabuki Theater of Outrage, Act III. Unscrupulous borrower Sen. Chris Dodd struts on stage. Fox Business reporter Rich Edson turns on the spotlight:
Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG: 0.9768, 0.1967, 25.21%) bonus recipients so the government could recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit. Within hours, the idea spread to both houses of Congress, with lawmakers proposing an AIG bonus tax.
While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd unexpectedly added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,” which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax. The amendment is in the final version and is law.
Also, Sen. Dodd was AIG’s largest single recipient of campaign donations during the 2008 election cycle with $103,100, according to opensecrets.org.
Need to make my airsickness bag triple-strength this morning.
The rest of Malkin's post's here.
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My Comments:
Dodd hopes we're dopes, especially those of us who live in Connecticut.
It's the only way he'll be able to hold on to his public office and the power he's systematically abused for his personal gain.
Hat tip: BN
3 comments:
Like father, like son.
The Republicans have to get their act together and put up a dynamic, credible opponent. Steve in New Mexico
For those who don't remember (or were too young when it happened): Chris Dodd's old man, Thomas, was the elitist who wrote the 1968 Gun Control Act. This piece of unconstitutional claptrap merely made it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to exercise their rights. No criminal was seriously impeded in his work because (this is obviously a well-kept secret among politicians) criminals don't obey laws. Hello! That's why we call them criminals!?!?
Anyway, the apple seldom falls far from the tree, does it?
So now, our Irish-African-American president is moving swiftly toward more and better gun control laws even as he closes Gitmo and names an unethically-challenged political sycophant as attorney general.
Tarheel Hawkeye
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