{"id":59,"date":"2016-03-10T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T06:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-03-10T06:34:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T06:34:51","slug":"senator-from-connecticut-is-microcosm-of-congress-doddering-old-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Senator from Connecticut is Microcosm of Congress&#8211;DODDering Old Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ink was barely dry on my posting from this morning when the silver-haired old whore from Connecticut I had taken to task retreated from his sanctimonious position about AIG bonuses, and did a 180 degree turnabout. After spending all day Tuesday blustering feigned outrage at AIG, Christopher Dodd reversed course today and admitted that he not only was complicit in the bonus shenanigans, but was actually responsible for the language attached to the federal stimulus bill which allowed the incompetents at AIG to gorge at the public trough.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I honestly don\u2019t understand where these vipers get the stones to show their faces. They have absolutely NO SHAME!!! Most people when caught in a lie at least have a smattering of contrition and the good sense to lay low for a while. But Dodd has been lying, cheating, and stealing for so long, he simply doesn\u2019t possess any mechanism within him for turning off the switch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My question is\u2026when are we going to tell the pious members of our beloved Congress that they shouldn\u2019t be accepting their salaries for their mind-blowing ineptitude? It\u2019s one thing to be useless, we expect that from those self-serving clowns. But at the very least our Congressmen should heed the basic tenet of medicine that says, \u201cFirst, do no harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that ship has already sailed, and only the rich and privileged have life jackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, 2009 &nbsp; &nbsp; The ink was barely dry on my posting from this morning when the silver-haired old whore from Connecticut I had taken to task retreated from his sanctimonious position about AIG bonuses, and did a 180 degree turnabout. After spending all day Tuesday blustering feigned outrage at AIG, Christopher Dodd reversed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senator from Connecticut is Microcosm of Congress&#8211;DODDering Old Fools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[192,217,78,37,218,219,216,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}