NYTs' Funny Editorial on Dodd (How about a *boot* in a brigade of crooked behinds, instead?)NYTs' Funny Editorial on Dodd (How about a *boot* in a brigade of crooked behinds, instead?)
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Subject: NYTs' Funny Editorial on Dodd (How about a *boot* in a
brigade of crooked behinds, instead?)
Date: Jan 7, 2010 11:37 AM
WHOA, WAIT A MINUTE... NO!
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The RICO laws already exist.
Wall Street and the Federal Reserve
are a RICO. Did they make false claims?
Did they COERCE? Did they Antitrustally
grab the nation by the balls and threaten
a huge civil insurrection if Congress
didn't change their diapers and wipe
their asses for them?
They did.
It's organized crime and...
http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/crm00921.htm
False Claims (AIG).
'Like the Lyme Crymes are false claims
and a RICO and they happen to involve
the very same perps:
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
"Vote for a Sheriff" -- Mort Zuckerman's
own self-ass-biting words.
- - - -
Senator Dodd?
Think Thomas Dodd: "Just following orders"
for committing crimes against humanity
is not a defense.
And the last 10 years were a Tom Dodd
"AUTOPSY":
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/d138517fdc94dad2?hl=en#
Well, I hate to say it, because a lot
of people like Chris Dodd, but he should
have put a frickin *boot* in certain crooks'
behinds rather than trying to shake their hands.
Nevermind these distractions from the
spineless MSM, people. The nation needed
a man - a leader - who would stand on
principle, and Mr. Blumenthal is undeniably
that.
THAT is the story.
We got a year to plant and harvest rotten
tomatoes for the pillorying to come.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/opinion/07thurs2.html?pagewanted=print
January 7, 2010
Editorial
Will the Real Chris Dodd Stand Up?
Senator Christopher Dodd’s decision to not seek re-election in
November could be a fatal blow to meaningful financial regulatory
reform — or a desperately needed boost. It depends on what he does
now.
Mr. Dodd has been in the Senate since 1981 and has been chairman of
the banking committee since 2007. Over the years, we have seen two
very different Chris Dodds.
There is the reformer who championed the Family and Medical Leave Act
and helped to expand Head Start. There is also the all-too-cozy pal of
Wall Street who is one of the top recipients of millions of dollars in
donations from commercial banks and the securities industry. Recently,
Mr. Dodd’s fingerprints were on legislation that allowed the American
International Group to pay big bonuses after the firm was bailed out
by taxpayers.
That coziness — especially the V.I.P. cut-rate mortgage he received
from the now-defunct subprime lender, Countrywide Financial — is one
of the reasons his state’s voters have turned against him. With a
legacy to burnish, and no need to drum up campaign contributions, we
hope the reformer will be unleashed.
Last year, Mr. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, put forth a strong
financial reform proposal that would have gone a long way toward
protecting ordinary Americans and avoiding a replay of the banking
meltdown. It included robust consumer protection, sound regulation of
derivatives and limits on too-big-to-fail firms. Naysaying senators on
the committee — Republicans and a few Democrats — blocked the
proposal. Mr. Dodd then set up four bipartisan teams to come up with
alternatives. They are supposed to report back this month.
We would love to be pleasantly surprised, but odds are that they will
offer up a watery gruel. Much like fiscal stimulus and health care
reform, Republicans appear determined to block significant financial
reform, no matter how desperately needed, lest it be perceived as a
victory for President Obama.
This is where Mr. Dodd can try to make a difference.
Impending retirement frees him from having to woo donors or listen to
anyone or anything other than his own best instincts. He is free to
criticize and, if need be, condemn the working groups’ proposals — to
contrast their proposals with his own and challenge them to explain
how anything less than sweeping reform will be enough to protect
Americans.
(We would be disappointed if he decided to go through the revolving
door and seek a job in the industry he now oversees. But if that is
his eventual choice, he would be doing Wall Street a real favor if he
works now to save the financial industry from its own excesses.)
Mr. Dodd’s fellow senators certainly need a lot of goading. So does
the White House. President Obama has vowed to rein in Wall Street, but
the White House has pushed for loopholes in derivatives legislation
and recently proclaimed itself satisfied with a House-passed reform
bill that was weaker on consumer protection than what’s needed.
At the top of the agenda, Mr. Dodd and the White House should loudly
resist attempts to defang the proposed consumer protection
legislation. Mr. Dodd should also insist that dangerous gaps in
proposed derivatives’ regulation be closed.
Mr. Dodd may be a lame duck. But he is still chairman of the
committee. That gives him a formidable bully pulpit. He should use it.
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