Tag: chris dodd

Chris Dodd (D-CT) thinks that you’re all a bunch of Nazis.

[UPDATE] Welcome, AoSHQ readers.

Because you can tell the difference between pouring water on a towel held over the mouth of three separate individuals (and under very carefully controlled conditions), and sending 17 million people to the gas chamber*.


(H/T: Melissa Clouthier)

But, do you know something? Don’t get mad.

Get even.


More here.

Moe Lane

*For the record: this comment does not mean that I deny you your right to disapprove of the former. Merely that Dodd’s equation of it with the latter neatly shows why we have Godwin’s Law in the first place.

Crossposted to RedState.

Rob Simmons: *I* can get in-state donations.

That was essentially Rob Simmon’s response to Jim Geraghty when the latter called him up to get his reaction to the news that Sen Chris Dodd (D-CT) received only five in-state donations this quarter.  Simmons also went on to opine that he was pretty sure that he himself could get more than five in-state donations that day.

Which, given the way that Dodd polls these days, may not be not a brag.

Crossposted to RedState.

Hi, Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND). Enjoying your Countrywide mortgage?

You know, the one that’s just like the ones that your fellow Democrat Chris Dodd (D-CT) got?

Report Details Countrywide’s Efforts to Benefit VIPs

WASHINGTON — – Executives at Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest names of the housing boom, routinely violated internal company policies to provide below-market rates on home loans to the politically connected and powerful, according to a congressional report to be released Thursday.

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Recipients of special loans included senators and other officials, prominent businessmen, congressional aides, celebrities and journalists, including Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke, former Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, Jackson’s daughter and others.

Via Jeff Goldstein. Continue reading Hi, Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND). Enjoying your Countrywide mortgage?