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From: SliderOnTheBlack3/19/2009 1:23:31 PM
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Chris Dodd Must Resign NOW! - Contact Your Congressmen NOW!

The United States has literally had a complete breakdown of
our government. The do not pay their taxes. They get on
camera and lie in our faces. They feign fake outrage over
banker bailouts, yet write loophole after loophole, and
hand them billion dollar check, after billion dollar check.

Excuse my language...

But, after this...

How in the Fu@K, can Chris Dodd not be lynched in broad daylight?

...by his fellow members of Congress!

I told you what Dodd was doing, and that his "outrage" was
the epitome of disingenuousnes the day he did it...

Message 25411115

Yet it took the lackey press a week to figure it out?

Puh-leeze.

This SOB already used up his "get out of jail free" card with
his "Friends of Angelo" sweetheart mortgage deal...

Call, fax, <and email your Congressman and Senators NOW,
right now... this afternoon and cut & paste that NY Post
article and DEMAND that they force Dodd's resignation now,
or, you will force THEIRS!

You can find the phone & fax numbers, as well as the email
address of your representatives at the links below:

senate.gov

congress.org

Get involved like the people of Cincinnati just did.

If you're sick and tired of these hog jowled, greedy, lying
bastards sucking your pockets dry, and stealing your children's
future from them... pick up the damn phone and call right now,
and demand this piece of shit resigns - NOW!

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nypost.com

By DAPHNE RETTER, Post Correspondent

March 19, 2009

WASHINGTON Sen. Christopher Dodd admitted yesterday that he lied when he denied creating a loophole to protect the whopping bonuses doled out at AIG.

[SO WHY IS HE STILL IN OFFICE?!?!?!]

Dodd claimed he was bullied by the Obama administration into adding a major exception to his provision that would have blocked companies receiving federal assistance from giving generous bonuses to employees.

[What did I tell you... OBAMA - made sure this was in.]

"I apologize if I caused some confusion about whether or not we wrote it exactly, but I didn't write at my own behest," Dodd (D-Conn.) said in a CNN appearance yesterday evening.

"They came to us and asked for modifications to the amendment. The alternative was, of course, losing the amendment entirely, which was a possibility," Dodd told CNN.

An administration official disputed Dodd's version of the events, however, telling The Post that the Treasury Department had merely flagged the provision as one that could be vulnerable to lawsuits in the future.

The official said the administration never tried to have Dodd's original provision removed.

On Monday, Dodd insisted through a spokeswoman that he had nothing to do with the loophole which was inserted into legislation passed by Congress earlier this year to exempt his home-state employer American International Group.

Asked what changed in between his conflicting statements, Dodd said, "Well, going back and reviewing, obviously, and looking at it."

Dodd has received more than $280,000 in campaign donations from AIG more than any other member of Congress.

The three AIG execs revealed by The Post to have received bonuses have all contributed to Dodd in the past several years.

Douglas Poling and his wife, Jennifer, gave $10,900 to Dodd, records show. James "Jackpot Jimmy" Haas, a registered Republican, donated $2,000 to Dodd's campaign, and Jonathan Liebergall gave $2,200.

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