Tag Archives: Sen. Chris Dodd

When All Else Fails, Push The Class War Rhetoric

Posted on June 30th, 2011

During the 2008 Presidential race, candidate Obama proposed a $50 billion ‘Emergency Economic Plan‘. This plan included issuing rebate payments of $1000 to assist with rising energy costs, extending unemployment benefits, and distributing additional funds to the states. It was planned to be funded from the excess profits of big oil companies, which the Obama [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

Posted on June 26th, 2010

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Derivatives Sour Wall Street on Obama

Posted on May 23rd, 2010

Some say that if the language survives, there will likely be consequences in terms of Wall Street support for Democrats in the midterms and President Obama’s reelection campaign.  AP Wall Street executives say language in the Senate financial reform bill dealing with derivatives is like a horror movie slasher — repeatedly left for dead, only [...]

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Dodd’s Job-Killer: Slapping Main St., Not Wall St.

Posted on April 20th, 2010

 By MARK A. CALABRIA The financial-regulatory bill now before Congress is a fraud: Under cover of “reforming” Wall Street, it would inflict tremendous costs on Main Street. All the fresh publicity about alleged dirty doings by Goldman Sachs, etc., is beside the point: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) has produced a bill that [...]

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Dems play Wall. St. bash-and-take

Posted on April 13th, 2010

By: MARTIN KADY II on April 13, 2010 Democrats are playing the classic bite-the-hand-that feeds-you game as they gear up for a major Wall Street reform debate. The populist rhetoric is this: Big banks are greedy, Wall Street caused the melt down and we should crack down on the millionaires and billionaires who brought the [...]

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Five ways to lose the Senate majority

Posted on February 16th, 2010

By:  David Catanese Sen. Evan Bayh’s stunning decision Monday to pass on a reelection campaign in Indiana is the latest blow to a Senate Democratic majority that is suddenly within striking distance for the GOP. While the retirements of Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) had a clear political logic to them—both [...]

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Financial Reform Talks Halted

Posted on February 5th, 2010

Good.  You incompetents can’t get any traction for your poisonous bills.  Expect more of the same as an angry electorate  instructs it’s elected representatives to thwart your long cherished goal of turning America into Albania. Now that Chris “Lame Duck” Dodd doesn’t have the clout to ram thru anymore destructive financial “reform” bills,  maybe the [...]

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3 Democrats — 2 senators, 1 governor — to retire

Posted on January 6th, 2010

GOOD RIDDANCE!!   By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer WASHINGTON – With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama’s party. Taken together, the decisions by Sens. Chris Dodd of [...]

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