Mar 30 2009
Didn’t we see this movie already?
You know those movies where there’s this bad bad guy who always gets away with being greedy, ruthless, and sooooo much smarter than the rest of us?
The audience keeps saying, “How is it possible for him to get away with it?” “I hope he get’s his!” “Why do his loyal henchmen stand by him?” “when will somebody step forward and do what needs to be done?”
And then finally he gets shot in the back unexpectedly by his turncoat right hand man… We are all so happy! Especially when the guilty are caught and are so ANGRY they can’t believe it!
They can’t believe it because the lies and deceptions in the name of the common good, the common man, which were so successful for such a long time don’t work any more. And all that anger and hate that was drummed up against other herrings and misdirections now turn on the guiltiest of all—the guy smarter than the rest of us!
I give you Chris Dodd, who’s collected hundreds of thousands of dollars (in addition to sweetheart mortgage deals by the same organizations (he helped) dragging us underwater), managed to dodge and weave his way with crafty double-speak and laws and amendments he helped write.
He’s about to get shot in the back by the same people he’s conned all this time—The PEOPLE!
Why because his right hand man—his colleagues in Congress are going to hold up the gun and shoot before it’s realized by the angry mob (The PEOPLE) that they too have a place in all this mess!
Next in line would be Barney Frank if all goes well!
The saddest part of all of this is that it isn’t a movie script at all, it’s real—real money, real ruined lives, and the people paying for it are all of us and the people getting away with it are the people we trust to watch the store… The smart guys.
Hey Smart guys (and girls I mean you too)—The PEOPLE are coming! Did you see that movie Night of the Living Dead? It’s coming to a theater near you—real soon!
—iChef Politikos
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Other Voices:
The Counter: Senator Dodd’s Nine Lives Are about Up [Victor Davis Hanson]
Let us count them . . .
1. He claimed that he had not the slightest involvement in the AIG bonus exemption that he in fact helped insert.
2 He got more AIG money than anyone in the Congress — more even than Barack Obama, who came in second.
3. He got a sweetheart deal on an Irish “cottage” from a crooked stock-trader.
4. He got two preferential discount mortgage interest deals from the now-bankrupt Countrywide.
5. He was one of the Fannie Mae-enabling overseers at a time it was going broke and giving senators like Dodd himself campaign cash — he topped out near $134,000 higher than anyone else.
6. He got a sweetheart profit deal from a condo joint-buy with crook Edward Downe, Jr.
7. He intervened with the Clinton administration to get the felon Downe pardoned.
8. He misrepresented the value of his Irish cottage that he obtained via the agency of the dubious Mr. Kessinger.
9. He is the nation’s premier hypocrite as he lambastes Wall Street crooks and insiders from his collapsing soapbox.
Well, those are the proverbial nine lives — so, Senator Dodd, time to go: “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and lets us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
