Your government at work
This is what our politics has become. A Senate Committee Chair (Dodd) using his position to extort political donations is openly discussed as "strategy."
They don't even bother to hide it anymore.
Wall Street also looms large. The Connecticut senator will become chairman of the Senate Banking Committee in Congress, giving him oversight of the nation's banking, financial services and insurance industries. The post will create new fundraising opportunities _ a potential boost for a longshot prospect like Dodd who must prove he can raise the tens of million of dollars needed to stay competitive in the 2008 campaign.
They don't even bother to hide it anymore.
posted by mikevotes at
2:00 PM
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It should be pointed out that the assumption/aspersion is made by a reporter, not the senator. The reporter has presumed certain things based on what? The actions of Republicans?
The assertion may turn out to be true, but that remains to be seen. Right now it's the beltway, prima donna, reporter I see as jaded, not Dodd... yet.
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-epm, at 8:03 PM
Very true. Dodd has not made such claims as far as we know.
But occasionally I'm just struck by the over the table discussion of things that were once looked down on.
There was a time when people taking money from those they ostensibly protect the people from would be a story.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:59 PM
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