Tuesday October 21, 2008
You may remember U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd as the white-haired Connecticut pol who couldn’t believe he was a long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, so he moved his family to Iowa last year, then never emerged from single digits.
Meanwhile, as Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banks committee, pretended to run around with the big political dogs, the nation’s financial services and credit industries were going to hell in a handbasket.
The Blogster also remembers Dodd as the guy who got a sweetheart refinancing deal with Countrywide mortgage at a VIP rate of 4.23 percent. It must be nice. Anyway, he’s been promising for months that he was going to release detailed information about the deal, but ….just…hasn’t…gotten….around … to …it.
I mean, Dodd’s a busy many who is pointing fingers about the cause of the nation’s economic meltdown at everybody but himself. He can’t be expected to multi-task, can he?
Anyway, Dodd seems to be a uniter, not a divider, after US Rep. Chris Shays and Democratic Fourth Congressional District agreed yesterday – during their penultimate of seven debates – that it’s time for Connecticut’s senior senator to cough it up.
“I believe that the people of this country and this district deserve and should expect the highest standard of ethical behavior from their leaders,” Himes said. “From top to bottom, from city councilors right on up to the president of the United States.Frankly, I think that the fact that we haven’t expected that level of accountability from our leadership is not a small part of the situation we have today.”
Himes said it’s time, now, for Dodd to release the documents.
“He obviously should,” Shays agreed. “And it should not be lost that while we were dealing with an economic crisis, he moved his family to Iowa for a year. And my opponent is totally silent about that.” Last week Shays called for Himes to return $14,000 that U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, the embattled veteran New York congressman, gave to the his campaign.
“It’s only Republicans who do things that are wrong,” Shays said, sarcastically.