Dodd

[JTrainDavis]

would my waste of air senior senator have a 1 month turnaround from cancer diagnosis to surgery under Obamacare? Personally ; apologies to his decent family members; i'm in favor of shipping him to England to eat pain pillls til he dies.

 

[JTrainDavis]

btw my comma key is broken hence the semicolon

 

[volinbham]

I don't like the man but wish him a speedy and complete recovery.

 

[gsvol]

btw my comma key is broken hence the semicolon

I've been having similar problems, think it's a virus going 'round?

There are hopes that the voters will surgically remove Dodd this time around, hope and chnge, yes we can!!

 

[gsvol]

More on Dodd; a Countrywide official testified before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee and the Senate Ethics Committee that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) did in fact know he was the recipient of a sweetheart deal on two mortgages as part of the unofficial "Friends of Angelo" program.

Angelo Mozilo, the founder and former CEO of Countrywide, was able to snag fixed rates of 4.25 percent and 4.5 percent on mortgages for the Senate Banking Committee chairman. Suddenly, Dodd's slim re-election chances just got slimmer.

I don't like the man but wish him a speedy and complete recovery.

Every amendment to say that legislators must take obama care has been trashed in congress and the senate.

Another good for instance is Ted Kennedy's cancer treatment, he wouldn't be getting the same treatment under obama care, he would have to sink or swim, so to speak.

House and Senate negotiators are working to cut the cost of the bill by $100 billion -- cuts that have suddenly allayed the concerns of so-called fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats. The compromise still includes major tax increases and a public option health entitlement, which were supposed to be deal killers for these "principled" Blue Dogs.

Pelosi has since said that provisions granted to the 'blue dogs' may not remain in the final bill, that's how it goes when you sell your soul to the devil.

Red October Looms for ObamaCare
Americans can breathe a sigh of relief, however briefly, because Congress will not pass health care legislation before lawmakers depart for recess on August 7. "This bill, even in the best-case scenario, will not be signed -- we won't even vote on it probably until the end of September or the middle of October," said President Barack Obama.

Democrats have proposed one way to raise money for the bill -- tax payroll. The Wall Street Journal writes that the tax could reach 10 percent. So much for "no tax increases for those making less than $250,000 a year."


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Rangel Supports Higher Taxes, Just Not Paying Them

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) is one of the drivers of a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge in order to help pay for the Democrats' nationalization of health care.

Taking a look back at Rangel's personal tax history, however, it's easy to see why he's so keen on the proposal -- he isn't likely to pay any of it himself.

The Wall Street Journal published a refresher course in Rangel's tax history this week, reminding us all of the scams that he's put forth in order to dodge taxes on his now famous Dominican villa.

Rangel failed to report $75,000 in real estate income from the villa, which commands $1,100 per night during the peak season and is rarely -- if ever -- vacant.

He has blamed his wife for not keeping the books properly (bet that went over well), and he has blamed the locals for speaking Spanish, but he has never come completely clean about how such a large mistake could be made on his returns year after year.

Rangel has promised to rectify the situation but he still has not filed the corrected paperwork. Nor has he paid the overdue taxes. Nor is the IRS knocking on his door.

There have also been issues surrounding rent-controlled apartments that Rangel occupies in Harlem. It turns out that he has played fast and loose with the income-reporting rules so that he can still be eligible for rent-control status, which allows him a steep discount below market value.

We could go on about the other four issues about which the House Ethics Committee is investigating Rangel, but the picture is already clear. He's in deep for years of tax evasion and questionable real estate ventures, but Charles Rangel is still perfectly comfortable telling us that a 5.4 percent tax surcharge is "the moral thing to do."

 

[allvol123]

But he made it clear he would be ok to run for re-election. Oh thank goodness. Just like Ted Kennedy, worried about occupying his office until he falls over dead. These people are confident they are of such importance.

 

[gsvol]

What relation is this Dodd to the Dodd who got the US 1968 gun law passed?? (that is almost word for word the same as the German 1938 gun law.)

Here is the alert senator from West Virginia working to protect the rights of the American citizen.

 

[MG1968]

I don't trust, nor would I vote for, anybody with hair that light and eyebrows that dark.

 

[joevol320]

does vegas have the over and under on who will end up in hell first? dodd or kennedy?

 

[JTrainDavis]

What relation is this Dodd to the Dodd who got the US 1968 gun law passed?? (that is almost word for word the same as the German 1938 gun law.)

Here is the alert senator from West Virginia working to protect the rights of the American citizen.

If i'm correct it's his son, and the elder suffered from some ethical lapses as well.

 

[gsvol]

If i'm correct it's his son, and the elder suffered from some ethical lapses as well.

In other words when you look up 'corrupt politician' in the dictionary, you see a picture of a Dodd?

Pelosi came by hers honestly too, her family has been connected with corrupt politics in Baltimore for generations, but she has found her mecca in San Francisco ans Washington.

Hard to beat Barry though for corruption, his dad was just a low level operative in the Kenyan central bank (never a goat herder, that's urban myth) to having almost unlimited financial power.

In his few years as a U.S. senator, Obama has received campaign contributions of $126,349, from Fannie and Freddie, second only to the $165,400 received by Senator Chris Dodd, who has been getting donations from them since 1988. What makes Obama so special?


His closest advisers are a dirty laundry list of individuals at the heart of the financial crisis: former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson; Former Fannie Mae CEO and former Clinton Budget Director Frank Raines; and billionaire failed Superior Bank of Chicago Board Chair Penny Pritzker.


Johnson had to step down as adviser on Obama's V.P. search after this gem came out:


An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report[1] from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998.[2] A 2006 OFHEO report[3] found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson's compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million.


Obama denies ties to Raines but the Washington Post calls him a member of "Obama's political circle." Raines and Johnson were fined $3 million by the Office of Federal Housing Oversight for their manipulation of Fannie books. The fine is small change however, compared to the $50 million Raines was able to obtain in improper bonuses as a result of juggling the books.


Most significantly, Penny Pritzker, the current Finance Chairperson of Obama's presidential campaign helped develop the complicated investment bundling of subprime securities at the heart of the meltdown. She did so in her position as shareholder and board chair of Superior Bank. The Bank failed in 2001, one of the largest in recent history, wiping out $50 million in uninsured life savings of approximately 1,400 customers. She was named in a RICO class action law suit but doesn't seem to have come out of it too badly.


As a young attorney in the 1990s, Barack Obama represented ACORN in Washington in their successful efforts to expand Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) authority. In addition to making it easier for ACORN groups to force banks into making risky loans, this also paved the way for banks like Superior to package mortgages as investments, and for the Government Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to underwrite them. These changes created the conditions that ultimately lead to the current financial crisis.


Did they not know this would occur? Were these smart people, led by a Harvard graduate, unaware of the Econ 101 concept of moral hazard that would result from the government making implicit guarantees to underwrite private sector financial risk? They should have known that freeing the high-risk mortgage market of risk, calamity was sure to ensue. I think they did.


Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate, no matter how he describes himself, has been a radical activist for most of his political career. That activism has been in support of organizations and initiatives that at their heart seek to tear the pillars of this nation asunder in order to replace them with their demented socialist vision. Their influence has spread so far and so wide that despite their blatant culpability in the current financial crisis, they are able to manipulate Capital Hill politicians to cut them into $140 billion of the bailout pie!

 

[IPorange]

Classy thread delivers.