SEN. DODD'S CAVALCADE OF SCANDAL




IT'S been a rotten year for Chris Dodd. Time and again, the Connecticut senator has been caught both doing favors for heavy hitters and receiving them -- and then lying about it.
Sometimes the mess involves a firm like AIG or Countrywide, enmeshed in the abuses that have so damaged the US economy. Sometimes Dodd's pal is just a felon in need of a presidential pardon. But the cavalcade of scandal clearly puts the five-term senator in danger of losing his next re-election bid.
Dodd's collapse began last June, when Conde Nast Portfolio revealed that he had gotten two cut-rate mortgages of nearly $800,000 from subprime giant Countrywide Financial in 2003. As the magazine reported, Dodd was a "Friend of Angelo" -- one of several notables marked for special treatment by Countrywide co-founder Angelo Mozilo.
That triggered a dizzying carnival of misleading Dodd statements. First, he issued an angry written statement denying any favorable treatment.
A few days later, he told some reporters that he knew he'd been treated as a VIP by Countrywide, while the same day assuring other reporters that he hadn't.
He also promised he would release documents related to his mortgages. It took more than seven months for him to produce anything, and he still hasn't disclosed all the paperwork. On Feb. 2, he let some Connecticut reporters look at some papers -- but allowed no copies to be made and refused to list the documents provided.
Dodd has promised to refinance the Countrywide deals, which would save him at least $70,000 over the life of the mortgages. But this is plainly damage control, not remorse. There's no question why Countrywide wanted Dodd's friendship. Dodd has long been a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the industry. In 2003, at the time of the first sweetheart loan, he was close to becoming chairman -- and a big catch for a company that depended on government policies that encouraged lending over prudence. Nor is this the only sweetheart deal to surface

"Watch this - Saves me a lot of typing"

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"U.S. of Banana Republic"

I will not give all the reasons and Dollar Amounts

( I can't count that high)

but yes, we are headed for Bankruptcy if B.O. is allowed to continue his spend and tax plan. If you add up "ALL the Debt" created from the time of George Washington thru George W Bush, B.O. will have created More "DEBT" then all of them combined.

"Wake Up, Stand Up, or you will Be Shut Up"..it's your choice.

This is the actual cover of Newsweek Magazine

Since B.O. took office the government now controls:

1. Your Banks
2. Your Insurance
3. Your mortgages
4. Your Bonus's
5. Your Income
6. Using ACORN for the Census of 2010
7. Your Health Care
8. Your Tax Money
9. Unionizing America

Plus many many more aspects of your life and you no longer have any say in the matter.

This Morning France and Germany were thrilled about B.O. placing a salary cap on America. The government not only sets the Minimum Wage "BUT" now the Maximum Wage also...with no end it sight.

Bet you have not read or heard of this, but one of strings attached to the Stim-u-Louse Package is, Union Wage Rates "MUST" be paid to any one a state or city hires for work projects. Example: say they could have hired some one for $10.00 per hour and the Union Rate is $40.00, they "MUST PAY $40.00 per hour"....Sounds good, but they could have hired 4 people but now it is only one.....the Unions paid B.O. millions of dollars for his election and it is now "Pay Back Time"....and guess whose pocket it is coming out of.....

"The Jokes on Us"

CBS's Kroft to Obama: 'Are You Punch-Drunk?'
In a wide ranging interview broadcast Sunday night, Obama was pressed by Steve Kroft on "60 Minutes" for at times laughing or smiling while discussing the global economic crisis.
You're sitting here. And you're laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems," Kroft told the president. "Are people going to look at this and say, 'I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money?' How do you deal with -- I meaMeanwhile, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg predicted Obama's ambitious $3.6 trillion budget, including massive spending to save the economy, would put the country into bankruptcy and would never pass Congress.

B.O. Behind Closed Doors and they are not Transparent"

Obama White House bars press from press award ceremony

We are not making this up:
Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.
This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him "Newsmaker of the Year."
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.
The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.
From the president's official schedule:
"Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press."
Maybe they'll let the newspaper people pass the award through the fence.

"Our President at Work"

This is what happens when he does not use his teleprompter....Any idiot can be taught to read from a screen, it takes a leader to know what he is talking about. He should stay home and solve the problems he is creating and not go on TV to joke....Oh wait..Leno is on NBC..um and who helped get him elected MSNBC..ah, I see..He is just paying his debts...too bad his administration didn't do that until they got caught.


Obama Compares His Bowling Score to Special Olympics on 'Tonight Show'
President jokes about being a bad bowler during his appearance on the 'Tonight Show' and ends up insulting the disabled. "It's like the Special Olympics," he quipped.

"Every American should read this"

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe Thomas Jefferson

A government large enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
Very Interesting Quote: In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
Doesn't this sound eerily familiar to what is happening in America today?

"Chairman Mao Pelosi calls to Break Laws"

The Far Left Leaning Socialist that is called the "Speaker of the House" made a speech in San Francisco (where else) to illegals, telling them not to obey the law because it is UnAmerican....This is just another cause and effect that electing B.O. and a Democratic Congress and Senate has given us.

http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/22003540/pelosi_s_pandering.htm

"Congress has more Flip Flops than a Nude Beach

In a dramatic reversal Wednesday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., confessed to adding language to a spending cap in the stimulus bill last month that specifically excluded executive bonuses included in contracts signed before the bill's passage.
Dodd told FOX News that Treasury officials forced him to make the change.
"As many know, the administration was, among others, not happy with the language. They wanted some modifications to it," he said. "They came to us, our staff, and asked for changes, and the changes at the time did not seem that obnoxious or onerous."
Dodd said the argument put forward by Treasury was that a "flood of lawsuits" would come forward if the change was not made.
When asked how administration officials have this kind of leverage over members of Congress, Dodd said, "The administration has veto power. ... No one suggested a veto to me, I don't want to imply that to you. But certainly that's not an insignificant tool."
On Tuesday, Dodd told FOX News that he didn't add the exemption.
"When the language went to the conference and came back, there was different language," he said then. "I can tell you this much, when my language left the Senate, it did not include it. When it came back, it did."

"B.O. and His Gang Do It Again"

Though lawmakers are now trying to recoup some of the $165 million in bonuses through taxation, Sen. Wyden and Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, had included a provision to tax executive bonuses at 35 percent in the stimulus -- it was later stripped.
Asked to whom he spoke with back in February when he was fighting to keep the item, Wyden said, "Secretary Geithner, Larry Summers, and I'll leave it at that."
Wyden said he and his co-sponsor Snowe battled administration officials, trying to convince them that the public would be outraged at excessive bonuses, but, Wyden said, "I was never able to convince them that this was something that ought to be included."
The Wyden-Snowe provision was mysteriously dropped in the early February closed-door negotiations over the stimulus bill -- intense meetings that involved Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Obama economic adviser Larry Summers, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and budget director Peter Orszag, as well as senior Democratic members of Congress.
Wyden said Summers and Geithner argued that there were "contractual obligations" as they worked to kill Wyden-Snowe.

"Eat Up America"

Yes, Eat up, we just bought 8 Billion Dollars worth of Pork....

B.O. signed the Bill in the hidden recesses of the White House on March 12th

Usually he makes such a big splash, with camera's people, reporters, but this time not even a picture of the signing. Why Is That B.O. ?.......

FU - Story not covered by Media

Officials: Taliban's New Top Operations Officer Is Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration's efforts to close the prison.
U.S. authorities handed over the detainee to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials.
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan
The officials, who spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to release the information, said Rasoul has joined a growing faction of former Guantanamo prisoners who have rejoined militant groups and taken action against U.S. interests. Pentagon officials have said that as many as 60 former detainees have resurfaced on foreign battlefields.
Pentagon and intelligence officials said Rasoul has emerged as a key militant figure in southern Afghanistan, where violence has been spiking in the last year. Thousands of U.S. troops are preparing to deploy there to fight resurgent Taliban forces.

"B.O.Is No Class - all ASS"

THIS BLOG IS "SNOPES-ABLE"
President Barack Obama's gift of a set of DVDs to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appalled the British media, furious about the lack of traditional protocol afforded to Brown while he was in Washington.
Iain Martin, a columnist and blogger for the Daily Telegraph, wrote that he found Obama to be rudeness personified toward Britain.
"Only at the last moment was it agreed that there would be a small press conference, and, I think, it was read as a metaphor for the concern that Obama really just didn't like having the Brits in town," Martin says. "Yes, he's dealing with the biggest global crisis in 70 years.
"Still, it would have been nice if he could have welcomed Brown with just a hint more enthusiasm.
" London newspapers are howling over a string of alleged snubs by Obama toBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his visit to Washington last week — including a squabble over presidential gift-giving.
"President Obama has been rudeness personified towards Britain," sniffed The Daily Telegraph Friday. "His handling of the visit of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to Washington was appalling."
The list of complaints is longer than the Magna Carta: Obama canceled a planned, podium-to-podium news conference with Brown (actually, none was ever scheduled); he recently removed a bust of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office; and he gave gifts to the Brown family that were "about as exciting as a pair of socks," one Fleet Street wag whined.
That last bit might be true. After Brown presented Obama with a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President (whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk), Obama offered up ... 25 DVDs of American movie classics.
"Oh, give me strength," wrote one appalled Daily Telegraph staffer. "We do have television and DVD stores on this side of the Atlantic."
Never mind that Brown is blind in one eye and may have a hard time seeing the stars in "2001: A Space Odyssey," or that American DVDs are usually incompatible with British players.
Equally insulting, decided the Times of London, was Michelle Obama's "solipsistic" and "inherently dismissive" gifts to the Browns' two little boys, Fraser and John.
The offending souvenirs? Toy models of Marine One, the President's helicopter — gifts no doubt plucked from the White House gift shop at the last minute, The Times decided.Brown's wife, Sarah, by contrast arrived with dresses for Sasha and Malia from the UK's trendy Top

OUR CLOSEST ALLY, THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS BEEN SHAMEFULLY TREATED BY THE B.O.ADMISTRATION…BUT I GUESS WHEN YOU SEND A LOSER IN TO PITCH FOR AN ADULT YOU GET WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.

WHEN A MEMBER OF THE B.O. GANG WAS INTERVIEWED BY THE BRITISH PRESS ABOUT THE DISRESPECT GIVEN TO THEM, THE B.O. ADMINISTRATION REP SAID; “ALL 160 MEMBERS OF THE U.N. ARE TREATED THE SAME. THIS WAS SAID AS THE GREAT COUNTRY OF GREAT BRITTAN HAS PEOPLE SERVING WITH US IN IRAQ…….THE END OF THE STORY IS B.O. RETURNED THE BUST OF WINSTON CHURCHILL TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY, THIS GIFT WAS SENT TO AMERICA AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH 2001, TO SHOW WE ARE ONE……BUT B.O. DECIDED TO RETURN IT…WHY ???????
EACH DAY WE SEE, MORE AND MORE HINTS OF WHAT B.O. IS REALLY ABOUT….WAKE UP AMERICA OR WE WILL BE BURIED UNDER A LAYER OF”RED” MIRE AND NEVER SEE IT COMING…

"America is B.O.'s Katrina"

WHILE THE ENTIRE FUTURE OF AMERICA IS CRASHING DOWN AROUND OUR EARS B.O FLY’S OFF TO OHIO TO PONTIFICATE HOW HIS STIMULIS PLAN JUST SAVED 25 JOBS…… (WHILE THE NEWS WAS REPORTING THAT UNEMPLOYMENT HAD REACHED 12.5 MILLION)….SPENDING THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF OUR DOLLARS, WASTING FUEL AND POLLUTING OUR AIR TO MAKE A SPEECH, SOME ONE SHOULD TELL HIM THE CAMPAIGN IS OVER AND HE WON?
EVERY SPEECH HE MAKES LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE HIS CAMPAIGN ALL OVER AGAIN, IS HE ALREADY RUNNING FOR 2012 ? HE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT THE ECONOMY, NOT THE CAP AND TRADE BILL, THE HEALTH CARE BILL, OR ANY OTHER 20 THINGS HE IS TRYING TO DO AT ONE TIME.
THE WAY WE ARE GOING, ALL OF US, THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, WILL BE BROKE IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. OUR HOMES HAVE DEVALUED ALMOST 50%, OUR SAVINGS AND RETIREMENT FUNDS HAVE LOST OVER 50%.
YESTERDAY, 700 PEOPLE IN A SMALL OHIO TOWN, LINED UP FOR A JANITORS ASSISTANT JOB….THIS IS NOT THE AMERICAN WE KNOW. ALL THE HOLLOW PROMISES WE WERE FED DURING B.O.’S 2 YEAR TOUR OF AMERICAN HAVE BEEN DISCARDED, AS HE KNOW THEY WOULD BE. WE MUST DEPEND ON RED CHINA TO LOAN US MONEY AND YET B.O IS WORKING ON HIS SOCIALISTIC DREAMS THAT WILL COST US UP TO 20 TRILLION DOLLARS…..

WAKE UP AMERICA, THE MEDIA IS NOT REPORTING ANY NEWS THAT MAY DEMEAN THEIR IDOL.

THEY MAY THINK HE WALKS ON WATER BUT WE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE DROWNING.

F.U. Hidden Story

Media Mum on AFL-CIO Florida Trip - ( Yes it is SNOPES-able)
They hammered Northern Trust events a week ago, but networks silent as AFL-CIO bosses 'work' in South Beach, Fl. Labor leaders began meeting March 4 at the recently renovated (for $1 billion dollars) Fountainebleu hotel in Miami. Apparently, there are some things they could only discuss things at a $400/night resort. The best part for these AFL-CIO sun seekers? The entire cushy trip is paid for by union members’ dues:the same people currently losing their jobs hand over fist.
The broadcast networks, who’s “investigative reporters” have so doggedly exposed the private jets, five star junkets and decorating excesses of companies lately, have cut the AFL-CIO some slack. Neither the evening news programs nor the morning shows even noted the gathering. Only Fox News sent a correspondent, Brian Wilson, to detail the hard work union bosses were doing.

Despite the March 5 visit of Vice President Joe Biden to the South Beach resort to discuss “Card Check,” The networks didn’t even mention the event. The White House went so far as to bar coverage of the meeting.

All of this stands in stark contrast to the frenzy and hand wringing surrounding Northern Trust and their PGA tour affiliated events. The Republican Party has often been portrayed as friends of Wall Street and other “fat cats” while Democrats and labor unions are fighting for the neglected worker. Revealing a labor group’s hypocrisy is not in the liberal media’s interest.

No camera’s or reporters were allowed to enter the room but here is a quote of what Joe “The Sheriff” Biden made at the meeting…..
…”you know, you go home with them that brung you to the dance. Well, you all brought me to the dance a long time ago. And it's time we start dancing, man. It's time we start dancing”

F.U. Question - What is 5 Million into Seventeen

I recall B.O. boasting how he will create 5 Million Jobs to ease the Crisis he has placed us in.....but guess what...he can't even fill 17 "OPEN" job in his own administration. Timmie Geithner, our Treasury secretary....yes the one that, that did not pay his taxes....

is still working alone, they can not find anyone to fill the "17" available jobs as deputies to help him.....does this mean he will be using Turbo Tax all by himself ?

F.U.' s Fun Fact of the Day

Woman with the Biggest Boobs in the World

"F.U. Observation"

It has taken 233 years to build the United States of America into the most powerful country in the world,

and

It has taken the new Left leaning, Socialist Administration only 41 days to bury it

"F.U.'s Good News Bad News Segment"

BAD NEWS

WASHINGTON -- Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday.
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The disclosure made the former Dallas mayor the latest in a string of top-level Obama administration appointees found to have underpaid their taxes, following Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle, who withdrew as candidate for Health and Human Services secretary. Nancy Killefer, Obama's pick for chief performance officer, also bowed out amid tax problems.

GOOD NEWS

Every time B O names someone to a administration position, we find that the individual owes back taxes and then pays them off...Look at all the money we are collecting...at this rate we may be able to pay off the National Debt.

"An "F U" - Shout Out To Rick Santelli"

Rick is a reporter on CNBC News, a Very Very Liberal Station....

Rick is as mad as hell as is not taking it anymore.

Check out his explosion on live TV.....

"Way to go Rick"

Most of America Agrees with you..Count me in on your Tea Party.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=rick+santelli&ei=utf-8&fr=b2ie7

"Fantasy Island will lose its Tattoo"

Here are only Two of the "Nine Thousand" earmarks that we know nothing about

When is Pork not Pork ?.....when B.O. says it is not.

250 million of tax payers dollars will be spent for tattoo removal, and guess which state ?......you got it..CALIFORNIA also millions to study the Salt Marsh Mouse....which state ? ...ah, yes...CALIFORNIA

Now if we can find a tattooed marsh mouse, maybe we could use a Two-fer and save some of our money....no, no I take it back, Congress would have to add a few million in pork to Conduct a study on Two-fers in Nancy Poloisi's home state

During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
President Barack Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that’s riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks — loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress — were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the camp aign trail, House and Senate members — Democrats and Republicans — were slapping them into spending bills.
“It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it,” said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst.