Posted on 08/07/2009 12:27:04 PM PDT by FromLori
No! Really?!? He didn’t do a thing wrong! Well, there ya go. A paragon of virtue.
The British were saints compared to those in Washington...
"lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!"
LOL....wouldn’t want to get ‘ol Bwney all worked up
“Watch for Hussein to call Dodd into the Oval Office and make him an offer he can’t refuse....kinda like with Torrisilly.And the RAT who takes his place on the ballot will get 60% of the vote.”
Yep. Or maybe Dodd will simply resign to tend to his medical issues.
Kent Conrad rips Darrell Issa investigation (whiny Democrat Alert)
Conrad has accused Issa of attempting to impugn his name in a GOP inquiry into the Countrywide mortgage scandal. Conrad said that the Senate Ethics Committee is the “appropriate forum to resolve this matter,” not Issa’s Republican staff on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
This comment really chapped my hide, but now in view of this decision by the Senate Ethics (ho ho, ha ha) Committee, grrrr!!
Senate Select Committe on Ethics members:
Democrats
Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman, California
Mark Pryor, Arkansas
Sherrod Brown, Ohio
Republicans
Johnny Isakson, Vice Chairman, Georgia
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Jim Risch, Idaho
Horsecrap alert. If Dodd and Conrad we’re Republicans, they’d have been fried. This wasn’t much different than what Ted Stevens was prosecuted and drummed out of the Senate over. Another example of Republicans going along to get along on the Senate Ethics Committee and Democrats protecting their own. Only Democrats would never return the favor. This country is swirling down the porcelian.
Thanks that scumbag!!!!
No justice no peace.
If what Dodd did as chair of the committee that governs Countrywide wasn’t an ethical violation, it’s hard to imagine anything that WOULD be an ethical violation.
Which apparently is how the Senate likes it.
He’s still a weaseldick.. him and his cronies
” Senate Ethics Committee “
Talk about an oxymoron !
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
The committee, however, did scold the senior lawmaker for not being more careful in hiding his dealings.
There, fixed it. Wishful thinking. Dump Dodd!
I like this version of the story...
United State Senate Declares: Chris Dodd May Accept Bribes from Subprime Lenders
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd received a better mortgage deal from subprime lender Countrywide, simply because Dodd was a United States Senator. Today, the United States Senate cleared Dodd of wrongdoing. According to CNBC:
In the end, it takes a lot for the country’s most elite club to turn on one of its own. Senators Christopher Dodd and Kent Conrad have been cleared of any ethics violations for accepting sweetheart, “Friends of Angelo” mortgages from Countrywide.
The Senate’s deciding to clear Dodd comes just a couple of days after the SEC gave a sweet heart deal to Bank of America - which, according ot the SEC, had misled investors about a several-billion-dollar loss.
The Senate’s decision comes just weeks after the Department of Justice took less than 48 hours to arrest and beging criminally proceedings a Goldman Sachs employee for theft of trade secrets.
Judges, are you paying attention? You are the only remaining protectors of individual rights. Congress and the Presidency has been purchsaed. Barack Obama accepted nearly $1 million in campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs. Larry Summers has accepted payments from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks.
Yes, I was once a member of the Federalist Society. I know all of the arguments against “judicial activism.” There are, however, three branches of government. The Executive and Legislative branches have all bowed down to Wall Street. That leaves the last remaining branch - the Judiciary.
As a matter of separation of powers, federal judges have a constitutional duty to fight back. Refuse to take anything the Executive or Legislative Branch says at face value. They have no credibility - nor does anyone who claims that the Judiciary Branch should “defer” to these corrupt officials.
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