SENATOR CHRIS DODD FACING UPHILL BATTLE FOR RE-ELECTION?

Fox News Channel has been speaking of possible difficulties for Chris Dodd, a five-term incumbent, to get elected next time around.

I google-searched "Chris Dodd Lying Weasel" and found this article in Human Events.

It is, of course, no surprise that Human Events would take Chris Dodd to task. But the article is actually a round up from various news publications. Example of one citation:

New Haven Register

“We’re not going to mince words. Chris Dodd is a lying weasel. It is hard enough to swallow that the senator had no idea that he got preferential treatment on his home mortgages that saved him thousands of dollars. Or that, simply out of friendship, a wealthy New York man, who was later convicted in a huge stock swindle, picked up much of the cost of a condo Dodd bought in Washington, or that the stock swindler’s business partner out of a love of Ireland did the same for Dodd when the senator bought a waterfront house in Ireland.

“Now, Dodd flat-out has lied about his role in legislation that is allowing employees of American International Group to receive $400 million in bonuses despite receiving $173 billion in taxpayer money to keep the failed financial giant alive…

“Dodd claims he was unaware of the AIG bonuses when he changed the language of his amendment to allow them. Dodd, however, is more than familiar with AIG. Its Financial Products unit, which helped drive AIG to the brink of bankruptcy, has headquarters in Wilton. As a member and now chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over AIG’s industry, Dodd has received more campaign money, $281,038, from AIG than any other member of Congress.

“Dodd’s lie about the bonus loophole should haunt him next year when he seeks re-election. He has broken a bond with voters who expect honesty from their elected officials.”

The Register Citizen,
Litchfield County

Read the rest HERE.

I note that, in recent conversations with various friends, more and more of these friends - not all conservatives and FNC watchers, by the way - are becoming aware of this fact about Chris Dodd, even though Dodd has attempted to shift blame to Treasury officials:

Sen. Chris Dodd 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.