courant.com - 10/19/2008
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Sen. Christopher Dodd sounded like Dr. Seuss without the depth last week. "It is what it is," declared Dodd, mistaking Hartford for Whoville, when he told The Courant's Rick Green that he had no plans to release documents from his $800,000 in sweetheart mortgages from subprime titan Countrywide ...
redstate.com - 10/16/2008
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redstate.com —
The Arsonist of the Credit Crisis Rounds Up
His Usual Suspects Senator Chris Dodd ( D-FNMA )...
is convening a hearing of the Senate Banking Committee today, on the genesis of the current economic crisis . The odd thing about the hearing, as the ...
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Chris Dodd's Show Trial
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 10/20/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
If you want a great example of how
conservatives don’t know anything about anything, look no further...
than Iain Murray’s enthusiastic recommendation of this Wall Street Journal opinion piece pinning the blame for everything on Chris ...
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Understanding the GSEs
chicagoboyz.net - 10/18/2008
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chicagoboyz.net —
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 is likely to be
a decisive day in the credit crunch. That day...
is when credit default swaps (CDS) on Lehman Brothers debt will be settled. Credit default swaps are sort of like insurance. One party offers, for a fee, to ...
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Will Dodd Walk?
Ankle Biting Pundits —
Kevin Rennie has a biting column in the Hartford Courant this morning regarding Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and his evolving explanations as to why he refuses to release details about the 2003 “Friends of Angelo” mortgage deal he received from Countrywide Financial.
Rennie writes:
Dodd has answered almost no questions about the details of his 2003 mortgages. The senator cast an unflattering light on himself when he couldn’t settle on a credible response in June to the simple question of whether he knew he was getting ...
Chris Dodd: No Plans To Release Countrywide Documents
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Dodd Decides: No Story In Loan Deals
by Kevin Rennie - (Hartford Courant)
Sen. Christopher Dodd sounded like Dr. Seuss without the depth last week. “It is what it is,” declared Dodd, mistaking Hartford for Whoville, when he told The Courant’s Rick Green that he had no plans to release documents from his $800,000 in sweetheart mortgages from subprime titan Countrywide Financial.
“There is nothing to the story and I’m just not going to keep on repeating it,” pronounced Dodd, as he morphed ...
Chris Dodd Not Releasing Documents On His VIP Countrywide Loans
Say Anything —
Interesting...
Sen. Christopher Dodd sounded like Dr. Seuss without the depth last week. “It is what it is,” declared Dodd, mistaking Hartford for Whoville, when he told The Courant’s Rick Green that he had no plans to release documents from his $800,000 in sweetheart mortgages from subprime titan Countrywide Financial.
“There is nothing to the story and I’m just not going to keep on repeating it,” pronounced Dodd, as he morphed into Yertle the Turtle. “‘You hush up your mouth!’ howled the mighty King Yertle. ‘You’ve no ...
Democratic Senator Dodd's mortgages scandal
USS Neverdock —
won't go away. Another Democrat scandal that the media are ignoring.
Chris Dodd Not Releasing Documents On His VIP Countrywide Loans
Say Anything —
Interesting...
Sen. Christopher Dodd sounded like Dr. Seuss without the depth last week. “It is what it is,” declared Dodd, mistaking Hartford for Whoville, when he told The Courant’s Rick Green that he had no plans to release documents from his $800,000 in sweetheart mortgages from subprime titan Countrywide Financial.
“There is nothing to the story and I’m just not going to keep on repeating it,” pronounced Dodd, as he morphed into Yertle the Turtle. “‘You hush up your mouth!’ howled the mighty King Yertle. ‘You’ve no ...
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