Category — Chris Dodd

Well, we have almost 100 choices, but Christopher Dodd is Number Two (heh!) on Judicial Watch’s Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2008.

If there’s a sweet side to Greasy Thumb Dodd’s exposure, it’s an overdue counterpunch in the grim exchange that occurred here last year with two young members of Dodd’s campaign brain trust. 

Both of them supported Dodd’s pathetic hallucination that he could be President of the United States.  One of our commenters quickly revealed himself to be a wildly vulgar, homophobic egomaniac, and the other was just a soft-hearted subliterate.   

While vilifying ”Republicans” for being anti-gay marriage and chuckling about Larry Craig’s  men’s room misadventures,  neither of these dunces knew that Dodd ALSO opposes gay marriage.  

From Judicial Watch:   

Which member of the U.S. Senate took the most campaign money from corrupt institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?  Answer: Chris Dodd, Chairman of The Senate Banking Committee.  Given this fact, there is little reason to wonder why Senator Dodd blocked reform proposals for Fannie and Freddie, calling them “ill-advised”.  Dodd’s willingness to protect Fannie and Freddie would alone merit a spot on “the ten most corrupt list”, but there is much more.  Dodd was also nabbed for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial.  The Connecticut Senator admitted earlier this year that he was told in 2003, when he refinanced two properties that he was being placed in Countrywide’s “VIP program”, but said he believed that this was simply a courtesy which had nothing to do with his position in the US Senate. This was either a blatant lie or horribly naive for a man who has served in the Senate for 25 years and currently chairs The Senate Banking Commitee that regulates the mortgage industry.  We’re not buying it.

The most disgusting act in this drama is that Dodd will be re-elected and re-elected, just like that other swollen food container, Charley Rangel.  Every day that these bums feed at the public plate, the country grows cheaper and cheaper.  Why do we accept it?

Dodd, by the way, learned from his father, Senator Tom Dodd, who was censured by the Senate for using campaign funds for his home mortgate.  You might think the son would try a little harder to stay straight.

Here are a couple more videos that need to be circulated around the web. Please email them to all of your friends and family. If they are relying on the mainstream media for their news, they will never be able to make an informed decision on election day.

First up is a new web ad put together by someone on YouTube. The McCain campaign or the GOP should hire him. (HT: RedState)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9W_6U7GRrI

The next video comes from out of left field (literally). It features ultra liberal Alec Baldwin blaming democrats. If a dimwit like Alec Baldwin can admit this, there may be hope yet for the rest of America. You only need to watch the first few minutes. (HT: Newsbusters)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yop7ks9N3bk

Previously posted videos can be seen here and here.

For all of you that eschewed the formation of a third party, your position has been usurped.

Congress announced the formal conjoining, creating the “Parti de Prostituto” or in honor of all the illegals in the country, the PUTA Party. New symbols are needed to recognize the members so feel free to copy and mail them out to your elected officials.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi befittingly will lead this new group as they are very experienced in such matters.

Hey, if she can concern herself with pet visitation rights and pet emergency plans, she can help these folks and their naked pets. And no, that is not a picture of Hotspur. It looks very much like Chris Dodd.

East Haddam - Stocking up on hats, horns, ticker tape and Bailey’s Irish Cream, Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has MOVED TO IOWA to press the Iowa flesh.

Dodd, the Democratic Party’s dark horse and inevitable Presidential candidate was seen by this reporter at his home just yesterday, raising doubts about his sincerity to remain in Iowa and represent Connecticut.

It’s widely rumored that Dodd’s view of sincerity is the same as Groucho’s: “Once you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made”.

Or “hypocracy” which is the preferred spelling for Republican-haters I’ve encountered in the blogosphere.  The word is “hypocrisy”, and its joyous discovery in Larry Craig was the newest golden strand woven  into the vestments of pulpiteering leftists everywhere.  Craig was more proof for their contempt and curtain-twitching scorn for an entire social class: Republicans.  It’s the same confirmation error and simplification underlying all stigmatizing prejudices, but this one is clean because the opinion-makers and liberal elites hold it to be true.

For leftists Craig narrowed the probability that all Republicans are swine.  Think of the yokel who flips a coin 99 times, and having found heads 99 times, thinks the probability of having tails has changed from 50 -50, to 100 to 1,  and bets his house on the outcome.  With millions of adherents, one Republican or Democrat scoundrel, or a thousand, proves nothing about either party, but that’s an idea too complex and knotty for some to unwind.  Even one as bright as the one who parried with us recently about Chris Dodd.   We’ll call him Genius.   He told us he had an IQ of 135  possessed a Master degree and had graduated magna cum laude.

Genius was infuriated by a rude post about Chris Dodd.  Genius detested Republicans, and disgorged a list of Republican types linked to Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff; a few convicted but most indicted, linked, charged, suspected, probed or investigated for wrongdoing, and therefore to the hanging-judge mentality of a pious lefty, guilty.  Then Genius moved on to Larry Craig.

Pertinent to the suspicions about Craig, Genius referred to the Republican Party as The Gay Old Party, and continued to some very suspect comments of his own about homosexuality.  He then ignored being exposed for indelicate comments about gayness.  But later in the thread, a Dodd volunteer and friend of Genius posted that Genius wasn’t homophobic; but that Republican “bible-thumpers” are the chief foil to gay respectability and their right to marriage.  Well, Craig opposes gay marriage, but so does Chris Dodd, along with 67% of Americans (Gallup 2005), but never mind.  She said:

My take on his “Gay Old Party” remark is that so many Republicans deny gay people the right to marriage, bash their lifestyle as immoral and a sin, yet behind closed doors they’re trolling men’s rooms and hitting on Congressional pages.  Are Dems doing this too?  Safe to say - yes but we’re not the one’s (sic) standing up and thumping our bibles about our superior morals and family values.  It’s the hypocracy (sic) - not the homosexuality that is maddening.

What does this paragraph mean?  Its logic is sub-rational, its ethics risible,  it simply isn’t true in any of its disconnected, anecdotal parts, especially about “so many Republicans” OR so many Democrats.  It’s just a literary delivery system for an idea that requires ventilation over and over, no matter how non the sequiturs and fictitious the evidence.  Republicans are homophobic, hypocritical trash.   Our gaze had to be drawn from the planks in their eyes to the motes in our own.  It always does.  It’s called lefty logic.

All ideas have a lineage, a provenance.  Leftism devolved from liberalism, which itself devolved from the great but conflicted Progressivism of the last century, and the decline continues.   Along the way, leftism picked up attitudes, theories and assumptions from its predecessors which today make up the foul slurry that passes for leftist political thinking.   Some of them are as follows: 

First,  elites in all ages have regarded their social inferiors as reservoirs of bad taste, ignorance, carnality and bizarre religiosity.  (This exists alongside their romanticization of the Rousseauean  brute who services the pool.)  To the arbiters of everything important, hypocrisy in the lower classes is a natural outcome of the contradictions in their behavior, and even sometimes reponsible for their diminished  status.  The people whom I believe to be inferior to me will always confirm my opinion.  The left will always think of Republicans in this way. 

Second, among the intellectual staples of atheism, which clings even today to many believers, is that religion is the cause of more carnage, injustice and suffering than the purest godlessness.   The bad behavior of the religious nullifies the validity of  Belief, and confirms a broad potential hypocrisy in all believers.  Absolute moral spotlessness, and total silence about it is, the only remedy for the crime of believing in God.

Third, if postmodernism is “about” anything, it’s about personal sovereignty, and the assumption that morals are a social construct.  Objective morality can’t be disclosed by Reason, so the individual is the fairest judge of his conduct, as long as he keeps it to himself.  Along with this, moral variation is the validation of personal choice, and solipsism is authenticity.

We could add a fourth, although it isn’t about what leftists think. It’s about what they overlook.  Their implicit claim that violations of moral codes discredit not only the offender, but the code itself and all those who hold to it, is particularly wicked.  Codes exist as maps to conduct; we have them because the road is unknown and hard to follow; not natural to us, and the map springs from a host of human needs and self-expectations.   Without them, we are nothing.

From Ba’hais to Stoics, to Epicureans to low cults, to Christianity, to Islam and all the ascetic Green guides to good living, there’s a code that is imperfectly followed.  Lapses are normal, expected.  Leftist pseudo-morality reminds us of Adam Smith’s pithy comment…”Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience”.

In a bipartisan spirit, the Vermont Woodchuck unveils another Statement T-Shirt, the third in the line of the Democrat 2008 Campaign T-Shirts.

Chris Dodd

                                                   WHAT’S UPDOK?

If you can’t foil a deep-thinking, Green, Chris Dodd-admiring liberal anymore with “what’s a red henway?”, or “what’s a piecost?”, tell him you’re opposed to drilling in Anwar because the Alaskan Snowshoe Hare feeds on fields of Updok.  It works every time.  If he gets annoyed, show him your ticket stub from THIS PLACE!

www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html

He’ll be eating out of your hand like Bessie, Dobbin, Curley Tail and Billy Gruff.

Stolen this AM from Instapundit.  Consider that this moron is still in the Senate, and  without embarassment, running for the Democrat nomination for PRESIDENT!

 Dodd in 1975

The greatest gift the American people can give the Cambodian people is not guns but peace.  And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now.

Congressional Record, March 12, 1975

Even the author of “The Killing Fields” has revised his opinion.  Dodd remains a 15 watt liberal.

Soooo, the Senate passed a bill revising the lobbying laws. It passed on a 90-8 vote. I could be wrong, but any bill that supposedly “reforms” the thoroughly corrupt lobbying system cannot be good enough if it passes 90-8. But let’s take a look at some of the finer points:

• Authorizes a point of order by any Senator against consideration of a conference report that includes any matter not committed to the conferees by either chamber. [excellent, but it’s 2006 — why has it taken this long to implement what is a routine legislative rule in most legislatures?]
• Adds rule to make it out of order to consider any legislation unless a list of all its earmarks, the identity of the Member(s) proposing the earmarks, and an explanation of their essential governmental purpose is made publicly available for at least 24 hours before its consideration. [fine, okay — watch the blarney fly!]
• Amends Rule to make it out of order to consider a conference report unless it is publicly available on the Internet for at least 24 hours before its consideration. [whoopee, let’s all play hide-the-pea]
• Amends Rule to deny floor privileges (except for ceremonial functions and events) to former Senators and Senators elect, Secretaries, Sergeants at Arms of the Senate, and Speakers of the House of Representatives if: (1) they are registered lobbyists or agents of a foreign principal; or (2) are in the employ of or represent any party or organization for the purpose of influencing, directly, or indirectly, the passage, defeat, or amendment of any legislative proposal. [why the exception for ceremonial events? Decorum?!?]
• Amends Rule to exclude gifts from lobbyists from the gift ban exceptions. Allows a Member, officer, or employee to accept a meal or refreshment, however, from a registered lobbyist, subject to specified monetary limits and disclosure requirements. [”refreshment — what a quaint euphemism]
• Requires a Member, officer, or employee, before accepting otherwise permissible transportation or lodging from any person other than a governmental entity, to obtain prior written certification from such person (copy to the Select Committee on Ethics) that: (1) the trip was not financed by a registered lobbyist or foreign agent; and (2) the person offering the transportation or lodging did not accept, directly or indirectly, funds from a registered lobbyist or foreign agent specifically earmarked to finance the travel expenses. Prescribes additional disclosure requirements, including certain information regarding noncommercial air travel. [this is interesting — it puts the onus on the giver of the ride to make the certification]
• Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require a publicly available report, in the case of a principal campaign committee of a federal candidate (other than one for President or Vice President), of any flight taken by the candidate on an aircraft not licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate for compensation or hire. [campaign discloure of free jet rides — but no requirement that fair market value be paid? That must be buried somewhere else]
• Prohibits a Senator from directly negotiating or having any arrangement concerning prospective private employment until after the election for his or her successor has been held, unless public disclosure of such employment negotiations and arrangements is provided. [I don’t like this if only because it makes it harder for a member to leave]
• Requires a Member to prohibit all of his or her staff from having any official contact with the Member’s spouse or immediate family member if such individual is a registered lobbyist or is employed or retained by a registered lobbyist to influence legislation. [yawn, so the offspring are limited to lobbying the staff of daddy’s friends?]
• Amends Rule to prohibit a Member, with the intent to influence on the basis of partisan political affiliation an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity, from: (1) taking or withholding, or offering or threatening to take or withhold, an official act; or (2) influencing, or offering or threatening to influence the official act of another. [this appears to be aimed at the pernicious “K Street Project” — the problem is, a member should be making such offers or threats under any circumstances to any one.]

According to press reports, “Senators also decisively rejected a proposal for an independent agency to investigate allegations of ethics violations, a move that lets lawmakers continue to police themselves.” They’ve already proven themselve so effective at that, haven’t they?

And I had to laugh at this:

That sense of urgency faded, however, as lawmakers grappled with the details of the legislation and became sidetracked on other matters, such as the Dubai ports deal and overhauling immigration. Yesterday’s Senate vote broke that logjam, albeit with a bill that was significantly watered down from the type of legislation that House and Senate leaders once promised.

“Sidetracked on other matters.” There are 100 members and thousands of staff experts. You’d think these august folks could walk and chew gum at the same time, yes?

I think the event can be summed up best by the exulting proclamation of Senator Chris Dodd:

”There’s a sign now up in front of the Capitol that says, ‘Not for sale.’”

That such a sign would have to be hung in the first place is the disgrace.