Culture of Corruption casualty: Chris Dodd bows out; CT AG Blumenthal to run
Charter member of the Team Obama Culture of Corruption
During the Christmas break, corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd held a press conference hailing the Senate government health care takeover bill. But he couldn’t distract from the stink of his ethics scandals and his mounting unpopularity at home.
A prescient constituent heckled him during the press conference:
“You’re not gonna get re-elected,” the man said.
Today, Dodd will preempt the voters by removing himself from the running. He’s ending his re-election bid. I’d say good riddance, but Dodd will most likely move on to a lucrative lobbying career a la Beltway toe fungus Tom Daschle or perhaps into a position with the administration of Hope and Change.
Corruptocrats never fade away. They just switch seats on the business-as-usual bus.
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Connecticut’s Democrat AG Richard Blumenthal will announce today that he’s running for Dodd’s seat:
Connecticut’s popular Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday that he intends to run for Christopher Dodd’s seat in the U.S. Senate, boosting the chances of Democrats retaining the seat in November. Blumenthal, 63, told financial news channel CNBC that he will officially announce later on Wednesday his pursuit of fellow Democrat Dodd’s seat. A press conference is slated for 2:30 p.m. EST at state Democratic party headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut. Blumenthal has been Connecticut’s top law enforcement official since 1990, serving five terms in that office, and previously served in the state’s legislature.
You may remember Blumenthal’s special appearance on the Glenn Beck show back in March, where he proffered his legal opinion on why he was taking action against AIG’s executive compensation packages. I blogged it at the time:
Under what law are you going after the AIG bonuses?
Blumenthal hemmed and hawed for a painful six minutes before coming up with this:
“Because they are undeserving of it.”
Remember those six chilling words:
“Because they are undeserving of it.”
After blubbering that the law doesn’t require that AIG pay the bonuses, Blumenthal then sputtered that it was bad public policy.
Blumenthal also explained that while he didn’t have the authority to go after corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd because he was a federal official, he did feel it right, just, and necessary as state AG to do something more about federal tax money spent on AIG.
Finally, he muttered something about the State Wage Act, tucked his tail between his legs, and slunk off the set — no doubt to go wield his legal powers against other targets (Congress exempted!) that he has deemed “undeserving” of their pay.
Blumenthal gives new meaning to AIG:
Asshats In Government.
We’ve got enough of those in the Senate already, don’t we?
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Flashback…
Dodd and Obama: Corrupt birds of a feather
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Everything you need to know about false Hope and Change can be found in one picture: The image of President Obama embracing embattled Sen. Chris Dodd.
The embattled Democrat is in deep doo-doo over his Countrywide sweetheart home loan deals, corporate bailout cash, and crony associations. New revelations by Countrywide whistle-blower Robert Feinberg confirm what more and more of Sen. Dodd’s constituents in Connecticut are coming to realize: He’s a lying crapweasel. Dodd denied knowledge of the special treatment the sub-prime mortgage company had given him and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad on home loans. (Dodd’s were worth more than $800,000). Feinberg flatly contradicted him in secret testimony on the Hill this week.
Connecticut voters are not smiling about Dodd’s hypocritical bashing of lobbyists on the airwaves while he parties with them behind closed doors. And as they scrimp through the recession, they haven’t forgotten about Dodd’s dozy Irish cottage deal with convicted insider trader Edward Downe, Jr. (who received a Clinton pardon with Dodd’s generous help). Sandra Harris, an unaffiliated voter from West Hartford, told the Hartford Courant: “I’ve lost respect for him…It’s time for a change.” A Quinnipiac poll now shows that 60 percent of key independent voters disapprove of Dodd.
But Dodd’s cratering numbers and mounting ethics scandal aren’t just about Dodd. Damaged birds of a feather flock together. Even before these latest disclosures, Dodd’s approval ratings had dropped to their lowest levels ever. Yet, President Obama – agent of the “new politics,” erstwhile Breath of Fresh Air, guarantor of all that is good and clean in Washington — declared his support for Dodd’s 2010 re-election campaign bid.
“I can’t say it any clearer: I will be helping Chris Dodd because he deserves the help,” President Obama announced in April. “He just has an extraordinary record of accomplishment, and I think the people of Connecticut will come to recognize that.”
Obama progressives should cringe at their president’s bear hug of one of the most ethically-compromised politicians on Capitol Hill. The Beltway swamp is teeming with Democratic corruption scandals (Pennsylvania congressman John Murtha’s earmark factory and tax-subsidized airports and radars to nowhere; New York representative Charlie Rangel’s rent-controlled apartment scams and tax scandals; California representative Maxine Waters’s business ties to a minority-owned bank that received $12 million in TARP money under smelly circumstances, for starters). But Dodd’s career epitomizes the most fetid aspects of Washington’s culture of corruption. It’s a textbook case of nepotism, self-dealing, back-scratching, corporate lobbying, government favors, and entrenched incumbency.
When he launched his presidential bid in February 2007, Barack Obama inspired millions and rallied the world with his pledge to “build a more hopeful America.” He told a cheering crowd in Springfield, Illinois, land of Lincoln, that he recognized “that there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity to this announcement. I know that I have not spent a long time learning the ways of Washington, but I have been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington have to change.”
Two years later, Barack Obama declared his support for an entrenched U.S. Senator drowning in the decrepit old politics of pay-for-play.
Two years later, at an “historic and “unprecedented” record pace, Barack Obama presided over a heap of botched nominations, crony appointments, lobbyist paybacks, union and left-wing activist payoffs, and abandoned promises to make government more transparent and accountable to ordinary Americans.
“Washington is broken,” Obama lamented on the campaign trail. Yet, under President Obama, the business of Washington is booming. The collapse of the Era of HopeNChangeyness demonstrates the first and last law of political physics: As government grows, corruption flows. Massive new federal spending plus tens of thousands of pages of new regulations plus unprecedented new powers over taxpayers and the economy ensure limitless new opportunities for sleaze, favor-trading, deal-cutting, and influence-peddling.
The president’s dwindling blind faithful may still cling to the belief that he can work miracles. But no one, not even Barack Obama, can drain a swamp by flooding it.
Michelle Malkin is author of the just-released Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (Regnery).
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Queue Freddie Mercury! ! ! !
May his name be recorded in the book of shame and may his future be uncomfortable. May he live in interesting times.
I said this on the other thread, but will put it here. This is excellent news for Dems.
AG Blumenthal, who is immensely popular in CT (His last approval rating was 79/13)
PPP put out a poll this week which in their words now makes what was at least a 50/50 shot at pick up for Republicans an “uber safe” seat for the Dems.
ooops “AG Blumenthal, who is immensely popular in CT (His last approval rating was 79/13) is announcing he will run for the seat for the Democrats.”
Welcome to the party, pal! We’ll see what he’s got.
As Craig Ferguson would say “It’s a great day for America, everybody!”
Unfortunately, as pointed out, his replacement is someone who knows how to work the publicity machine. There’s an old joke: What’s the most dangerous place in Connecticut? The area between a camera and Richard Blumenthal.
While his move may keep the seat for the Dems, I don’t know I would go so far as to say the news is ‘excellent’ for them. Seniority counts for something in the Senate. Dodd will take a lot of clout with him when he leaves.
Looks like the Dems should hold on to this seat though. It also looks like the GOP might gain 4-5 Senate seats this year. That means McCain’s Gang of 14 (aka Plan B for Dems) are back in the game.
Like chap says in effect: this changes nothing and likely strenghtens the Dems image in Congress. Sucks all around.
So what? These rats have weathered corruption storms that would have sunk Republicans a thousand times over. As long as the Media and popular culture cover for them, “it’s all good”.
Give the man a big cigar! He’s got it. Heads the democrats win, tails the people lose.
Good riddance to bad rubbish! May the people of CT get smart and stop voting democrat theives in to office.
You know who is the happiest man in DC right now?
Lieberman. His reelection chances in 2012 just went up by about a thousand percent.
Lieberman may be extremely liberal on all things, but hatred for the United States of America as a Constitutional Representative Democracy with a generally free, fair and open economy has replaced abortion as the one, true core value of the Democrats, and since he doesn’t seem to hate his country, he should remain independent but caucus with the Republicans.
You’ve got to know that any opponent will study the Glenn Beck interview and be praying for a debate.
Let’s not forget that Everyone thought Howard Dean was a lock for the Dem nomination in 2004.
I am reminded that my wife will be incredibly happy about this news.
She used to work on some of his campaigns in college but was never able to forgive him for voting to confirm Chief Justice Roberts.
The “so what” is we get another free shot, Red Dog. We are not going to be handed a single thing. We need to work our tails off.
For like-minded folks in CT, they get a free shot! I’ll take it.
chap, this time blumenthal will have to defend his aig idiocy where lots of connecticut voters are in the ny financial biz, and also defend his totally blithereing smackdown by glenn beck. you can bet these will be campaign ads.
We are NOT a representative democracy we are a Republic.
The United States is a “constitutional republic.”
The word “democracy” does not appear in the US Constitution. It does not appear in the Declaration of Independence.
Democracy is majority rule… in its simplest form 50% + 1.
A Republic, is defined as “a state where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government’s power over citizens.”
John Adams, (founding father, second US president, co-framer of our constitution) defined “democracy” as the “tyranny of the majority.“
He wanted an “empire of laws, not of men” to protect the individual and minorities. He advocated separation of powers (the now-familiar executive, legislative, and judicial branches) with these checks and balances as a means to limit the government’s power over its citizens.
Towards the end of his life John Adams declared, “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Hmmm, “Constitutional Representative Democracy” seems close enough to not trigger a pedantic attack.
But I was wrong, I guess.
79/13 popularity. Is he going to win 79/13? Of course not, but that is a mighty tall hill to climb.
PPP is coming out with a poll today with showing him against the Republican guy. In a preview, they describe the seat as “uber safe.”
Regardless of Chris Dudd’s seat, the Dems will no longer have a 60 majority come next year. That’s all I care about at this point in time. 2012 will be another year to oust the children and replace them with adults.
You will never find the word democracy in the DOI or the constitution we are a republic even though they’re trying real hard to change that in DC.
Consider this:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda minister
How to Replace Our Republic with Mob Rule (“Democracy”)
Don’t these look like the steps the Shadow Powers have taken over the last few decades? Aren’t they even now accelerating their plans?
1) Destroy the constitution.
“The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper.” G.W. Bush.
2) Control the education system (to prevent an informed citizenry).
3) Centralize power in one branch of government (the executive).
Notice how the number of “executive orders” and “signing statements” has exploded? Clinton launched the Kosovo war on an executive order.
4) Install an easily-manipulated figurehead as head of the executive branch (President Bush)
Will Obama be different? So far, it doesn’t look like it.
5) Advocate gun control so the populace cannot defend themselves from tyranny.
Remember how the gov’t illegally confiscated citizen’s firearms door-to-door in New Orleans? Watch them tackle and slug a retired woman to get her gun.
6) Increase gov’t handouts (welfare, etc.) and regulation/control over activities.
Great Quotes:
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
- Ben Franklin
“… the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” – Ales Carey
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
- 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
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
- Gore Vidal
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H. L. Mencken in The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
and the best one:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until voters discover they can vote themselves generous benefits from the public treasury. From that moment, the majority always votes for candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
- Alexander Tytler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic
The one seat I DO care about is Harry Reid, and the way he’s polling, he’ll be Daschle-ized come November.
That one would be a HUGE win. And Harry’s son has NO CHANCE of winning the governorship in NV either.
Did he campaign in Germany with obama?
Be interesting to see who he’ll go work for. Same goes for the rest of the dems…
This “democracy vs. constitutional republic” nonsense is tiresome.
Everyone here knows enough about civics to understand we elect officials who represent us. People use the term “democracy” in a colloquial sense. Get over it.
Should I point to you all the times Reagan referred to the US as a democracy?
Ok now that he has served 5 terms 30 yrs in senate he now needs to serve the same terms and years in JAIL!!
Of course coming from a far left liberal your statement would make sense!
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Soon to be ex Senator Chris Dodd has a lot of valuable experience–I’m sure that Comrade Obama (PBUH) can find a good place to use him in government.
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Chris knows a lot about the housing and mortgage business. The Messiah can use his skills best by appointing him to be CZAR OF FREDDIE MAC, FANNIE MAY, AND FHA. He can help expand the Community “Reinvestment” Act loans to help us all out economically.
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No Senate approval needed for another CorruptocRAT CZAR. Hope and Change you can(‘t!) believe in.
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John Bibb
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Ronald Reagan March 8, 1983
My goodness! Two big lies in one speech!
I don’t care how many times Reagan said it. It means he was wrong.
Words matter, and the difference is critical for those of us who despise “one size fits all” overlordism.
It’s been my experience that most people who refuse to acknowledge the difference in certain words and phrases do so in order to advance a hyperbolic agenda.
Like, using “General Welfare” to send us into bankruptcy and “isolationism” to wage endless war.
Last time I checked, we vote for our Representatives, our Senators (that may be a mistake, BTW) and, as voters of the several states (although some states want to weaken it) through the electoral college, we elect the electors who elect our President.
It is a Representative Democracy, and the 51% mob rule/sheep and wolves are prevented by a written constitution, a Senate designed not to pass important legislation on a simple majority, and a national President sworn to uphold the Constitution.
Now, our President does not uphold the Constitution (even George Bush signed a McCain-Feingold political reform bill he believed to be a violation of the First Amendment), and a majority of the Federal bench is now occupied by people who ignore their constitutional role, and instead have installed themselves as a first among equals third branch with the powers of the Executive and Legislative.
Of course it is an indirect democracy, with elected representatives passing the laws, and their was another layer between the voters and laws in the Senate before the 17th Amendment, and even less direct democracy in a judiciary that is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, who don’t face election.
But adjectives modify nouns. And “Democracy” is not the same thing as “Constitutional Representative Democracy”.
BTW, it’d never happen, but this country would be in much better shape if not only felons were disenfranchised (I believe the 9th Circus has made ugly noises about letting imprisoned felons vote), if the franchise were limited to members of the Armed Forces and honorably discharged veterans, and people who pay Federal income taxes. And people past legal retirement age.
The franchise should be denied to all on public assistance except retirees and others forced to pay into the system when they were working. People receiving social security benefits past retirement had no choice on paying into the system.
Basically, if we eliminated the leeches and the criminals, I don’t think the Demonrats, as currently comprised of the corrupt and/or the Marxist, would have a chance.
Please. You are being pedantic, and petty. And I guarantee if the ghost of Ronald Reagan came up to you right now and said those exact same words, you wouldn’t say a damn thing about it.
Nobody is refusing to acknowledge a difference. What I, at least, am saying is that EVERYONE FREAKING KNOWS WHAT YOU MEAN WHEN YOU REFER TO AMERICAN “DEMOCRACY”! Do you go off on people down South when they refer to all soda as “Coke”?
Gore Vidal as a source on anything is a mistake…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
Again if you tell a lie long enough you will believe. Pretty generic!
Don’t be so disillusioned that EVERYONE knows what we mean. There are MANY people that have NO idea of our history and what the difference is btwn a democracy and republic.
You’re the very person that we’re afraid of that has the right to breed and vote!
Wow you can’t be this dense. Please find the word democracy in the constitution and DOI and get back to me I will wait!
The founders PURPOSELY did not want our country to be anything in resemblance to a democracy. Nice to know you haven’t a clue as to the history of the country and what our founders created us to be. Fairy tales may come true they may happen to you!
If it makes people happy, “Constitutional Republic”.
I’d note spending bills start in the US House, which faces election every two years, and whose members are voted upon by the eligible voters of their district. I’d call that Democracy, and we are only one level removed from the ballot box to votes in the US House.
Of course, the Senators, facing election every six years, are designed to be further removed from direct political sentiment, and when they were appointed and not elected, there was an extra layer between the citizens and the laws and treaties voted on in the Senate.
Me, I’m worried enough about the Marxist in Chief, and a Democratic Party that is a cross between Marxist and National Socialist, and must lie to get elected anywhere but inner cities, gay meccas and college towns, to get all Ron Paul/John Birch pure about referring to this country as a representative democracy.
Changes the face, not the communism.
So Richard Blumenthal must be getting all kinds of Democrats donating to his campaign?
Who are the last people I would donate to their campaigns? Answer: The people responsible for enabling Freddie and Fannie burning down our economy.
The Glenn Beck video should be shrunk down to the Republican’s campaign commercials run them as often as possible in CT TV and Radio.
Has Arlen Sphincter made any announcements?
Ouch!!
You are denser than uranium. The lack of the word “democracy” means elections by the people aren’t democracy?
BTW, quoted noted Marxist sympathizer and homosexual hedonist Gore Vidal to make a point is not considered a sign of intellectual rigor anywhere outside a womyn’s studies program.
Anyway, I think we are all on the side of following the Constitution, and generally keeping free markets, and opposed to the Marxist in Chief and the Marxist and/or Corrupt Congress, except, of course, for people like Chap, who I’ll charitably assume is a well meaning person who lets happy feelings dominate rational thought (I’d like to think most of the rank and file Demonrats are just uninformed, not godless American hating heathens, like “I Hate My Country”).
So, lets minimize this blue on blue stuff, shall we. (BTW, the MSM inverting the colors, no longer associating the color red with Marxists, is a clever propaganda ploy. The good guys will always be blue, and the Democrats will always be communist red, in my book).
No man…my soul is dark. Like a tortured warrior poet, or something.
That’s a very interesting point historically the Rep were Blue and the dems were red.
Watch out for these CLOWNS… A lot of them will RESIGN their seats, the GOV of their state will appoint a replacement… The “REPLACEMENT” will then run as the “INCUMBENT”… Clever these LIBTARDS…
The Democrats plan is becoming obvious.
Screw us over and then “retire”. Before leaving office hand pick a replacement to follow in your footsteps. The replacement of course will campaign on “vote for change”. Just a changing of the nametag.
I take it you’ve never watched Leno “JayWalking” or listened to Hannity “man on the street”.
Not everyone knows these things. In fact, I’d doubt even a majority know.
Though I do have my doubts about the mental capacity of some posters, please note I did say “here.” As in MM.com.
Every time I have seen or heard Dodd mentioned since 2007 and all the ethics issues and so many other bad things surrounding this bloated filth, I am reminded of how the IAFF (International Association of Fire Fighters) and our corrupt President threw in the Union’s support for and endorsement of Dodd in his bid for the Presidency. You have no idea what joy this news actually brings me. Now if only they would get rid of Schaitberger as IAFF General President…
Did David Brooks just post here?
Don’t worry. I am thinking of a relatively exclusive list.
Blumenthal may be the greatest Democrat ever — but he is still in the socialist/marxist camp. The polls associated with Attorney General mean virtually nothing in an environment where Democrats at all levels are linked with anti-American corrupt folks like obama, pelosi and reid.
If I ran against Blumenthal, I would pound his association with these people and note that he will almost certainly vote for more abominations like healthcare and tax increases. The choice is clear – more taxes and runaway spending or someone who will put a brake on federal arrogance.
Must be lonely for Dodd in the Senate without his drinking buddy Teddy to hit the town and grope waitresses with.
Well, first you’d have to be a warrior. Nope, that won’t do it. Then you’d have to be a poet…nah. I would be okay with the tortured part, but “something” would probably be most accurate. A dark something. Nope. That’d be “racist.”
Oh well.
ECS
Joe Lieberman’s statement about Dodd’s decision to retire:
Fixed it for you, Joe.
The Democratic strategy in response to the inevitability of their unemployment: retirement. Because doing a better job is out of the question. Listening to employers is too hard.
Doing a crappy job at work? Retire so your supervisors can put in a good word or two for your potential replacement who will probably do the job just as crappy as you are. Yet the head honchos will take your supervisors at their words and stamp the individual with a seal of approval so the cycle of ineptitude and corruption can continue. Gotta go with the winning strategy, I suppose.
In South Carolina it’s “an RC Co-cola and a Moonpie please”.
You’re an old man and your head is among the windy spaces….
AG Blumenthal also is planning to fight AT&T because they play to lay off 160 land line installers. They Union official by his side.
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/ATT-to-Cuts-160-Jobs–80731237.html
Blumenthal is to Dodd as Fire is to Frying Pan
I find it kind of sad that we even have “safe” seats in an election cycle. It’s like politics is an exclusive industry and only the specially approved apply. I’ve always found it odd why people in CT tolerate the likes of scumbags like Dodd. He was a corruptocrat through and through and yet, he always got a pass until it was finally discovered all the sweatheart deals and favors he got because of his position (along with his financial negligence and special favors he did for AIG). Now, CT Dem voters are up in arms and a suitable replacement (Blumenthal) is waiting in the wings to do the very thing that Dodd did in his career: screw the taxpayer.
Honestly, it’s a twofer. In exchange for Dodd CT gets Blumenthal, a self-promoting blowhard who only thinks of manipulating and exploiting the law to make himself look good if only he can break it in the process (such as contract law regarding AIG bonuses). This is the type of person that is suitable for public office? CT also gets to keep Lieberman, who caucuses with Dems and is only an Independent in Name Only.
This scenario just confirms yet again how lost the Northeast is. Nothing has changed. Just as corrupt, selfish, and self-serving as ever. If you’re a producer you’re expected to fund all the utopian gifts Dems devise. It’s really too bad.
DLTDHYOTWO