Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd half-heartedly came forth with information about his sweetheart loans from failed mortgage originator Countrywide a few days ago.
As I mentioned in this post last October, Dodd had been told he was a 'friend of Angelo' Mozilla, and accorded special, favorable treatment on two mortgage loans. Dodd was, and is, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and, as such, holds sway over matters important to Countrywide.
When the whistle blew on his shameful bribe-taking, Dodd promised to make public documents pertaining to the affair.
He lied.
What Dodd did, since mid-summer, is to have stalled the process. He hid behind a Senate ethics panel for a while. Then claimed to be conferring with his attorney.
Earlier this week, Dodd's minions laid out some papers involving the Countrywide matter in a single room in the Senator's offices in Hartford, CT. Selected reporters were allowed to read, but not copy, nor take, the material.
That's it. That is Dodd's version of full disclosure.
The man should be strung up in the public square in Hartford and pelted with rotten fruit, then forbidden to hold public office ever again.
Coming in a week when Wonderboy's cabinet was being stuffed with tax cheats, Dodd seems of a piece with this approach of the Democratic party.
Basically, if you can get power, you can rise above the law and violate it with impunity.
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