Dodd Reverses Position, Suggests Warren May Not Be Qualified To Head Consumer Bureau

cripes, he's dodging and weaving. sounds like he's already
on the payroll of his future lobbyist employers.

Up Yours Dodd....just how much of a signing bonus from wall street have you been promised if you help stop her.

Scumbag piece of shit !

He's getting pressure from his bankster buddies. Probably holding potential job offers over his head. His talk about not having votes was obviously Dodd trying to kill the potential nomination by blaming the Senate when it now comes out that he personally doesn't want her.

8 OUT OF 10 DEMOCRATS THE COOK REPORT JUST DOWNGRADED ARE BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS!

by John Aravosis

"It seems the Cook Report has just downgrade the election chances of 10 Democrats. Eight of them are conservative Blue Dogs. Adam Green of PCCC thinks he knows why."

"The big lesson of 2010 for Democrats will be that if you govern like a Blue Dog and put corporate contributors ahead of your constituents, you lose. If you listen to what progressives have been telling you all along and stand up to corporations on issues like the public option and Wall Street reform, you win -- especially among Independent voters." -- Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)

THE LEFT ISN’T THE PROBLEM; THE CORPORATE WING OF THE PARTY IS.

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010083210/gibbs-left-dog-bites-man

"The left isn't the problem; the corporate wing of the party is. The left hasn't gotten in the president's way, for better or worse. It's the corporate right of the party—the Blue Dogs and New Democrats—that have stood in the way."

"The left hasn't been a rebel; it's been too good a soldier."

"The White House has been hurt less because the left is critical, but because the White House isn't listening. The left correctly understood the White House faced a pitched battle over the direction of the country, not a post-racial, pragmatic, bipartisan era of good feelings."

What, does Dodd need the money? Here are 10 things Dodd can do after after he retires from the senate and gets out of his own way and confirms Elizabeth Warren:

1. learn to sail
2. learn to cook
3. write a book about his career in politics, the peace corps, or whatever
4. write a book about finance reform or any of the other critical issues that he cares about (and like Tom Daschle did about health care).
5. run a philanthropic organization
6. raise money for a worthy cause
7. teach
8. spend time with with his young children
9. spend time in Ireland where he has a home
10.fish, or, cut bait

It's possible that the snippets we're reading about him don't tell the whole story, but it seems to me that he started down the road to reforming financial markets with real fire in his gut. It's sad that his legacy will be tarnished by not carrying through to the finish line. Elizabeth Warren is the perfect person to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Just another guy like matthews who ducked into the peace corps instead of wearing a uniform and going to nam like many of our brave young men.

go to his Webb site and you will find that he is one of the few senators who will not accept letters or e-mails from any U S citizen out side his state

Told ya so.

It's sad to see Dodd opposing someone strong on consumer protections. Sad, but to be expected when someone has been in Congress for so long.

Dodd is doing everything he can to eliminate any shred of a reputation he may have left. I guess some big corporate lobbiest position is in the wings for him because he is toast with the public. Only his good 'ol boys in the Senate will give him the time of day soon. Sadly, he will be buying votes from those guys which will be in opposition to good public policy. And, he will have all those new friends on the right too.

I used to think highly of Dodd. Now I'm thinking that Connecticut is trading up if Blumenthal wins.

Doesn't matter. In a couple of years President Quittygirl will appoint one of the bank presidents to this job, explaining that he has "common sense" and "real great American spirit."

The senate will go along, because it's the senate.

His future employers should be pleased with this performance. Can't wait till this old DINOsaur is extinct.

Has anyone considered that since he's soon to be out of a job, that HE wants the position for himself, but won't say so outright? Maybe someone should ask him that question.

chris dodd is a scumbag and i do not want to see him in democratic politics again and i would not trust dodd as far as i can throw him in looking out for the consumer

don't let the door hit ya, where the good lord split ya