Chris Dodd's chutzpa: Priceless ~ By Doug Powers

By Doug Powers Posted: June 01, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Having devoted a good deal of space in my column over the years to pointing out and mocking various government absurdities, I have often expected there would be a time when I would reach the end of the line of idiocy, double-speak, hypocrisy and deviousness – then reality strikes yet again. Mind-boggling government lunacy is bottomless, infinite and immune from common sense and even meteor strikes. I suppose as an opinion columnist I should be thankful for that, but it's more difficult to handle by the day, because though the political madness is endless, the well of adjectives, ad hominem slurs and pointed metaphors for politicians can occasionally run dry due to over-pumping. Fortunately, today is not that day. Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, who is perhaps best known to veteran political observers as the top slice of doughy, crusty white bread in the legendary waitress sandwich, is facing an uphill re-election bid next year. Dodd, in addition to being Phil Donahue's liberal stunt-double, is the mortgage opportunist who allowed AIG bonuses to stay in the stimulus bill that nobody had time to read before voting to pass, and then later jumped on the bandwagon of bashing the people who got the bonuses (but earlier had no problem accepting AIG's campaign donations). Normally these issues would be insurmountable for even a veteran politician to overcome, but since Dodd is from a collection of liberal East Coast states that pride themselves on the motto "Live free or at least fool yourself," I fully expect Dodd to win re-election to a sixth term. Part of Dodd's challenge in a campaign that is now underway is to demonstrate to any voters who care about such things that he's not a boneheaded weasel with confusing double standards. To do this, Dodd's campaign has created an ad (or see below) that demonstrates that he's … a boneheaded weasel with confusing double-standards.[CONTINUE READING]

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