Really, this rigmarole about Chris Dodd being the lyingest liar of liars who is responsible for the AIG bonuses because he took money from their contributors before the company broke down is… weak. Trite even!
For anyone who was paying attention during the final hours of the stimulus package negotiations, it’s clear that the Dodd Amendment in its original form offered strict provisions against large bonuses to executives. The administration would not have this and may have even issued a signing statement had it stayed the way it was. So the White House and Treasury department put heavy pressure on Congress to amend the provisions, Dodd and other committee members agreed — a compromise! — and the bill was passed. This was Dodd’s story, Geithner confirmed it today, it was all pretty much public information anyway, so blame Geithner and his boss, Obama, instead of this one Senator whose plan in the first place was to tighten the belt, or the sphincter, whichever you prefer.
[Gawker]
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Chris Dodd got my sister pregnant and then told my little cousin there was no such thing as Santa Claus.
“strict provisions against executive compensation” means only keeping 2 planes. One for work and one for sex tourism.
He’s a REFORMER.
FIVE HEAD! FIVE HEAD DID IT!
Personally, I like to tighten their sphincter before I tighten their belt. Gives that nice special feeling of eye-bulging intestinal panic. I call that move Neocon-Oh-Nine.
Sphincter say what?
God dammit, Dodd. You were my last hope for CT not being a complete laughingstock Senator wise.
[re=269323]Tommmcatt[/re]: He shot my puppy. Then laughed about it.
He is Satan.
How bout if we get the GOP to make Norm Coleman just go die quietly somewhere, they can take Dodd out to the alley and do whatever they want with him?
I’m sick and tired of Wonkette’s anti-Obama bias.
I heard that Dodd recently sold his soul to the Devil. And had to give Satan back some change.
[re=269330]NoWireHangers[/re]: Actually, as someone on Gawker pointed out he’s the Great Gazoo.
[re=269330]NoWireHangers[/re]: Actually, as someone Gawker pointed out, he’s the Great Gazoo.
Alright, so he’s not totally at fault on AIG but he is on the ACORNs, right?
Of course he is, he’s from the ACORN state!
Thank you, Wonkette, for your timely correction of this important matter.
Dodd For Master Of The Universe, 2012!
(And no, I don’t work for Dodd. I work for trust, justice, the American way and the giant sphincter in the sky.)
Chris Dodd gave Ruth Bader Ginsburg pancreatic cancer and then helped John Thain decorate his office, all while eating a whole litter of kittens!
He’s also into furries (see the testament to his forbidden love on his head).
Also
[re=269340]Min[/re]: I heard Satan tried to re-gift it, and that’s how Hitler was born. YEAH.
This AIG bonus thing is truly the Zombie Nader Rasputin of issues. It’s both tedious and terrifying; it needs to be poisoned, shot, shot again and drowned before it’s dead; and even after it’s dead, it’s still up and running around. What I wouldn’t give for a chunky intern with abandonment issues and no scruples right about now.
But I can blame him for those fucking eye brows right?
Chris Dodd and Nancy Pelosi were in the closed-door conference committee meeting making babies, and I saw one of the babies, and one of the babies looked at me.
While we’re gabbing about AIG what the hell else is going on???
[re=269336]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Chris Dodd was behind New Coke. And rickrolling.
[re=269357]chascates[/re]: You probably don’t want to know. It’s for the best.
[re=269356]bhosp[/re]: That’s unpossible!
[re=269357]chascates[/re]: you forgot to say sheeple.
And fuck Dodd.
This whole AIG thing smells like a red herring. Something else more horrible than we can even comprehend must be going on while we’re all bitching about this. The only thing to come out of this is that, fairly or not, Geithner is now an anchor on Barry and he’s going to be pounded by pundits and Republicans. He never should have made it past the tax-cheat discovery.
And he makes John Edwards hold the mirror while he combs his hair!
[re=269371]Biscuit[/re]: Maybe Geithner is the sacrificial lamb, to save our fair Barry. They go after his hide and ignore the big fish.
[re=269357]chascates[/re]: We’re getting fleeced and fucked up the sphincter. And yes, this is all Chris Dodd’s fault.
[re=269357]chascates[/re]: I checked our Texas’ legislature news and here’s what they’re up to:
Bill to allow carrying your concealed weapon to work instead of having to leave it in the car
Bill to allow Texas college to offer a Master’s degree in Creationism
Bill to make it easier for law enforcement to seize cockfighting equipment
I’m down with the last one but our state unemployment fund is predicted to have only $48 million Oct 1 but is mandated by law to have $860 million. But our governor is not going to take any federal, unfunded mandates that might come with stimulus money.
My unemployment ran out last month anyway.
[re=269354]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Damn skippy! Remember the late ’90s when all we had to talk about is why some chick doesn’t wash her clothes or send it the drycleaner?
The Donkey Punch is a good way to tighten the sphincter. Dodd kind of looks like he got donkey punched in that photo.
[re=269380]chascates[/re]: Look on the bright side, if the Governor turns down the stimulus bill, there won’t be any money for colleges to be able to teach Creationism. On the other hand, seizing cockfighting equipment shuts down yet another avenue for employment.
And so far as AIG goes has anyone else noticed that New York AG Andrew Cuomo is starting to look like Charles Krauthammer?
Yesterday Jim was against Dodd before he was for him. And so were most of the local commentariat. Is this Dark City?
[re=269380]chascates[/re]: And requiring photo ID at the polling place. Please don’t forget the Voter ID. It’s the most critical issue sweeping the nation. Lite Guv Dewhurst even voted (for no reason) in favor of the bill.
As to Chris Dodd, I’m still angry and I’ve got to express my anger somewhere and I voted for Obama and I don’t live in CT so couldn’t vote for Dodd. So there. Chris Dodd is a skunk.
[re=269385]Hooray For Anything[/re]: I guess I didn’t know there was much “equipment” involved in cockfighting. Just a couple chickens, right? Maybe a “ring” to fight in (or wear). Hmmm….
[re=269397]smellyal8r[/re]: Not sure what’s involved although cockfighting is illegal. However, unlike most other states, it is not a crime in Texas to own or operate a facility for cockfighting; own cock fighting equipment; train a cock to fight; or attend a cockfight.
When the fuck did Phil Donahue get in the senate?
Today, we are all Chris Dodd.
[re=269399]chascates[/re]: What about eating a cock? Is that legal in Texas?
[re=269399]chascates[/re]: Well, I agree. Outlaw away. It seems pretty brutal. I just wasn’t aware that there was something identifiable by law enforcement as “cockfighting equipment.” I mean, why not a bill that says “arrest anyone participating in or witnessing/gambling on cockfighting and being near equipment used for such”? I do agree that there are more important things for the TX Lege to be considering (like not taking stimulus money).
[re=269403]4tehlulz[/re]: Only cuz the Supremes said so. Left to our own *ahem* devices, it would still be illegal.
[re=269389]qaf[/re]: I’m thinking more like Orwell’s 1984.
Dodd is our ally. Dodd has always been our ally. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
I’m all for blaming any douche who wears glasses like that.
[re=269405]smellyal8r[/re]: Found this about a raid in another state:
sparring muffs, gaffs, slashers, and operating tables.
Jeebus, I can see how this would go over in Texas!
[re=269399]chascates[/re]: There’s a joke in there about Texan’s love of both guns and cock fighting but it’s too late in the day to come up with one.
[re=269408]rambone[/re]: Or, from John Kerry: I was for Dodd before I was against him.
We need guns to defend ourselves against Chris Dodd’s eyebrows. Or maybe we need an army of fighting cocks.
Yes, Tim Geithner is known as a fearsome negotiator, always bringing the HEAVY PRESSURE as he gives away huge sums of money to Wall Street, constantly. (Heavy pressure on “DEEZ NUTZ,” I think is the actual technical economics term they use at JP Morgan and so forth.)
[re=269411]chascates[/re]: Are sparring muffs somehow related to truck nutz?
just to be clear, what else does the “he made me do it” line cover? and does it only work for people in the lawmaking business?
CRABS CRABS CRABS
CRAB PEOPLE
(Dodd has crabs. Also.)
[re=269354]SayItWithWookies[/re]: har. genius.
[re=269371]Biscuit[/re]: AIG bailed out banks that already got bailout money?
Chris Dodd desperately needs somebody to tell him what to do since it’s abundantly clear he is in no position to remember what he did or did not do.
[re=269380]chascates[/re]: OT, but still pretty amazing: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/19/us/AP-School-Cage-Fights.html
Not sure if high school steel cage fighting has hit Austin yet, but I’m looking forward to finding work as a promoter.
My cellulite is GONE!
Not the same as the swimsuit girl.
[re=269434]turkey lurkey[/re]: I’ve read about that. It should be a charter school concept. Of course this is how the Texas Youth Commission has done things. That and sexual assault.
[re=269379]comradepaulson[/re]: Fleeced and sphinctered?
I like a little anal but I’d prefer to keep my money, if that can be arranged.
I saw Chris Dodd skinning a deer with his teeth on the side of the road one time.
[re=269437]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: Well, we’d all like a little money and anal. Unfortunately, only hookers have that kind of great racket going.
[re=269380]chascates[/re]: A Masters Degree in Creationism? Genesis is only like 30 pages long. Texass is the best state evar.
Big surprise: Chris Dodd is the top all-time beneficiary of AIG political contributions, with a total of $280,000 in donations from the company’s employees and fund-raising arm since 1990. Dodd was the second top recipient of AIG political contributions during the 2008 election cycle. The top recipient? Barack Obama. Both got about $104,000. For $104,000, you too could buy your very own president or senator. Just to be fair, John McCain also got about $60k from AIG, I suppose on the off chance that Obama got caught in bed with a Laotian boy, resulting in a McCain win.
[re=269441]comradepaulson[/re]: The longer I’m married, the lower my expectations get.
Sorry Jim, but I can’t handle any argument that suggests that Chris Dodd is not the second-biggest corporate whore in Congress (after Chuck Schumer). He is to corporations what Larry Craig is to cock.
How about we just put Connecticut in the same category as Ohio and Florida, basically national embarassments? Connecticut gave us Lieberman, don’t forget.
[re=269354]SayItWithWookies[/re]: And kneepads, don’t forget.
[re=269442]friendlyskies[/re]: Naw, creationism’s all challenging and shit these days. You have to wrap a bunch of fake science around it. Look em up:
you got Laszlo’s Akashic Fields
you got Tarnas’s Cosmos and Psyche
you got Wilber’s Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality
you got Henderson’s Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
And you got to take all this shit seriously. If you don’t pretend to believe it you can’t expect anyone else to pretend to believe along with you.
What we need is Tank Girl.
@biscuit: you really think $104,000 out of a total 750,000,000 campaign haul, buys you a president? if only people knew that was all it took, i’m sure those who make enough would donate their entire annual salaries for that sweet deal.
This whole 90% tax on bonuses business is just another Republican stunt like putting your campaign on hold to fix the economy or signing up a showbilly grifter as your VP. It will be forgotten by tomorrow afternoon once Barry returns from Cali.
Blame Jesus.
It all started with render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. Of course he was offering a bonus to Caesar Augustus, that young punk.
The other one Uncle Julius didn’t get any perks. When you wind up on the floor there went your superiore loco, eh?
The ides of March were just four days ago.
That was a time a lot of senators made their points all at the same time.
[re=269452]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: it’s not easy trying to cook up with some theory that’ll prove dinosaurs, wooly mammoths, and early man all hung out together
[re=269444]Biscuit[/re]: Someone (some Geithner intern?) decided that the bonii promised in AIG contracts would have to be paid out, lest angry right-wing activist judges would strike down the entire provision on the capping of executive pay. I’m sceptical about this legal advice. But when I looked into this yesterday, I couldn’t see how Dodd could be scapegoated for this and I still don’t see it now.
[re=269442]friendlyskies[/re]: “Genesis is only like 30 pages long.” Hey, they have the large print editions for the old, blind wingers. That bumps it up to about 60 pages at least.
My RW don’t-recycle-liquor bottles, home-schooling, paranoid, bitchy crazie neighbor lady has a bachelors in ‘recreational therapy’; I don’t know what the fuck that even means so a Masters in creationism actually makes more sense.
“CHRIS DODD’S EYEBROWS ATE THE DINGO THAT ATE MY BABY!!!!111!!!1!!”
[re=269457]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Yeah, but if you look at the amazon.com reviews, people have discriminating tastes for their pseudoscience. Not that any of this has anything to do with politics.
Oh wait…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQRUu_4W2j8
Dodd lied to protect Obama. Then Obama said to Dodd, “Go, tell the truth to the American people, for verily the buck stops here.” So Dodd told America, “Sorry for the confusion, but a Treasury staffer twisted my arm.” Then Obama told Geithner, “Dog! Confess your sins to the public, lest Chris Dodd be thought a corrupt, corporate shill.” So Geithner slunk to the press, and said, “I am responsible, and Senator Dodd is not responsible.” Thus President Obama suffered a political setback rather than let the American People get the impression that Chris Dodd is a lickspittle of moneyed interests masquerading as a Democrat.
[re=269323]Tommmcatt[/re]:This is like the time Chris Dodd stabbed me with his Treo.
You did the right thing, Mr. Senator! You did the right thing!
/goddamn 1996 clinton welfare reform apologist
[re=269444]Biscuit[/re]: I saw a commentary about that last night, but can’t find it right now. But the interpretation was kinda skewed. Opensecrets.org states that the Employer category doesn’t differentiate between money given as a part of some group’s concerted effort vs. individuals giving outside of any such concerted effort. It is simply information collected when someone gives more than $200 to a campaign.
Statistically, AIG’s employees gave more to Obama than any other campaign, but it’s impossible to discern how much of this contribution was an effort by AIG and how much was individuals acting entirely on their own or as part of a campaign having nothing to do with AIG.
But hey, as long as we’re cutting up statistics, do you want to guess who (and the caveats above also apply, but at least I’m mentioning them) John McCain’s top five employers were? In order:
Merrill Lynch,
Citigroup,
Morgan Stanley,
Goldman-Sachs and
JP Morgan Chase.
I’m not advocating that we rush to conclusions here. But if the author applied the same interpret-it-however-you-like standard to McCain that he did to Obama, McCain wouldn’t look that great either.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contriball.php?cycle=2008
[re=269444]Biscuit[/re]: The original article is here. It’s twaddle but it finishes with a fine whine == that Obama should give the AIG money back. It’s tainted, you know.
Chris Dodd ruined everything. It’s all his fault America’s broke!
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/03/fear-not-america-congress-to-rescue.html
[re=269454]sarcasticusername[/re]: I don’t know about that – every time I hear about some Congress-whore (no offense to Sexytime Workers of the World, United) who gets busted for bribery/corruption/graft etc, I always marvel at the relatively small sums involved – 5Gs here, 10Gs over there, a new car… I think to myself, “Self, if I dumped a year’s worth of my small company’s revenue into the pig-trough of Capitol Hill, I could build a harem of congresscritters!”… however, in these days of the (new) Bush Recession, (why do these things seem to happen when somebody named “Bush” is President?…) such thoughts are tempered by the depressing remembrance of having to lay off one of my staff earlier this month, dammit…
[re=269446]jagorev[/re]: Well then argue against it? It’s a set of facts. The controversy is being blamed on the guy who argued for the hardest rules. If you want to throw out hyperbole, go ahead. (And btw, he is NOWHERE near Chuck Schumer.)
After all they named an entire branch of idiocy after the dude.
This is a good thing, time to cull the heard.
Is this the open thread? Poo, titty, sphincter!
[re=269480]Jim Newell[/re]: I think they just want a scapegoat that isn’t Timmey Geithner or Larry Summers or anyone tied to Hopey. That’s not to say that the ultimate suck doesn’t belong with the GOP, the Bushies and AIG itself.
OR they just really, really hate Chris Dodd. I’m starting to go with that explanation. Yeah. Boo Chris Dodd!!! Boo!!!
[re=269489]grevillea[/re]: {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}
You gotta admit those wire frames be stylin’, Broseph.
[re=269496]comradepaulson[/re]: Rush really hates Chris Dodd. It may be as simple as that.
I wonder how many Bush/Cheney ‘dead-enders’ are still squirreled away in Treasury.
Tonight Leno asked Hopey about bowling a 129 on the White House lane and Hopey says I know it sounds like the special olympics. Ouch. Only have to see if NBC airs it or snips it. Ooopsie doodle. That is Dodd’s fault too, the fuck. Do these numbnuts all go to the same barber?
[re=269336]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: He fucked my sister-in-law. Which really makes me question his intelligence.
[re=269503]bitchincamaro[/re]: More?
Off topic but total Wonkette fodder.
Did anyone just see Steven Colbert’s Michael Steele Rap war video? Epic, brilliant, Win. They must feature it tomorrow. With Blingee
I am deeply disappointed by the lack of Blingee.
didn’t his pappy invent the Vietnams or something?
LEAVE BILL KURTIS ALONE
[re=269327]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Btw, there is a Miss UK that is totally against sex tourism. I found out this information while researching against sex tourism, of course, and not trying to find out where exactly Rush Limbaugh goes. Ahem.
Anyway also, this Miss Great Britain is totally hot, Brooke Johnston, I believe. Yup. Confirmed:
http://www.apunkachoice.com/happenings/img/20090119-0.gif
This link is SFW. Unless you work for the Taliban and/or place with no 1st amendment rights.
[re=269513]cal[/re]: And Cal, please note that I consider the above a perfect Blingee mashup possibility picture. Blingees are my online smack.
Also, biscuit’s “Obama took money from AIG” argument is just some sort of sad distortion.
Chris Dodd is a lying scoundrel, but so are the rest of the reprobates in Washington including the idiot in the whitehouse.
[re=269399]chascates[/re]: There’s some nasty equipment involved. Little ankle knives to make the spectacle bloodier. They only strap those on for a big prize fight to increase the antici – - – pation.
I’m a charming bastard who hides his liberal-softies well. I was living in SE Texas and had a neighbor dig out the ankle-strap-ons-of-death to show me. I said “Cool”.
Texas gives Idaho someone to look down on, so they’ve got that going for them.
Chris Dodd is a sphincter.
Is sphincter synonymous with “asshole?”
In the midst of the AIG bonus mess, poor Tim Geithner has been caught squarely in the crosswires. My heart really bleeds for him.
His predicament is rather akin to the case of the hunter being hunted.
In fact, he committed a grave error of judgment in exchanging his cushy job at the New York Federal Reserve Bank where he could hobnob and chum with the denizens in the den of thieves, aka the Wall Street for the dubious distinction of a cabinet post in another similar den , aka Washington, D.C. A bright and intelligent man that he appears to be (he would not have reached the pinnacle at the NY Federal Reserve otherwise), he ought to have anticipated that he would be getting himself into a no-win situation and would be damned if he did, damned if he didn’t, as the Treasury Secretary under the present precarious circumstances. Any success he manages to score, if at all, will automatically go to the score card of his boss, the Prez and, for any failure (a scenario much more likely), he will be pilloried and hauled over coals by every passer-by in the street. Of course, there will be the customary “vote of complete confidence” from the Prez every now and then relayed through the White House press secretary until he is eased out eventually in the wake of the gathering clamor demanding his resignation.
I am sure that Geithner is regretting now, every minute of his waking hours, his fateful mistake in taking that call from Obama on that wintry night asking whether he would be keen on joining his team and saying, in an impulse, “yes”!
[re=269480]Jim Newell[/re]: Anyone who blames him for coming up with the rules is a moron. So is anyone who doesn’t blame him for sack-ing up and saying fuck the bonuses. Fuck Dodd.
Chris Dodd’s problems began when he went out and got hisself one of them fancy metrosexual Eurotrash haircuts.
Dude. That only looks good ONCE you’ve have a necklift!
Srsly. Also.
chris dodd is a shame to the state i grew up in
[re=269434]turkey lurkey[/re]: “TWO FRESHMEN ENTER – ONE FRESHMAN LEAVES”!
…from the cheerleaders: “2 4 6 8 Thunderdome is really GREAT! Hurraaayyyy!!!”
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