Enjoy a Hot Doddy on St. Patrick's Day!

My senior senator is becoming quite the object of derision these days.  Caribou Barbie is so last year, this year's comedian's pin cushion is tunring into Chris Dodd. 

Here's Scappleface. Sadly, very few words were changed from Dodd'a actual press releases---and the campaign finance numbers are accurate

Obama, Dodd Outraged at AIG Campaign Cash

(2009-03-17) — As the furor over AIG executive bonuses threatened to bring the current economic recovery to a halt, President Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd today threw fuel on the fire, announcing their “fierce outrage” upon hearing that the insurance giant had given each of their campaigns more than $100,000 last year.

“While AIG was collapsing, and her executives crawling to DC with hat in hand,” said Sen. Dodd, D-CT, “my campaign, and then-Senator Obama’s were getting what can only be termed influence bonuses from the same firm. Naturally, I knew nothing about this, and I’m now seething with anger at the injustice.”

President Obama and Sen. Dodd were the two largest recipients of campaign contributions from the beleaguered company, and the only politicians to garner six-figure amounts from AIG in 2008 — $103,100 for Sen. Dodd and $100,332 for presidential candidate Obama.

AIG, which has received $170 billion in taxpayer cash from the federal government since September, gave more than $585,000 to Congressional and presidential candidates last year, favoring Democrats 3-to-1 over Republicans.

In unrelated news, Sen. Dodd proposed legislation requiring AIG political gifts to be returned to the U.S. Treasury, “exempting only those campaign contributions made before November 4, 2008.”

The senator’s office immediately issued a statement declaring that Sen. Dodd was not aware that he had proposed such the exemption.

Powerline points out what has become common knowledge during the course of the day; that Senator Dodd's amendment intending to restrict corporate compensation of bailout recipients--tacked onto the Porkulus bill--grandfathered in the obscene bonuses being paid to the least competent executives in American business history.  

Not to be outdone in festive spirit, the NRSC has a new web ad up poking fun at Dodd and his "luck" in obtaining resort homes and sweetheart mortgages. But was'nt there a better Irish accent to be found in voiceoverworld?. Please 

If this keeps up, maybe Chris Dodd and Tim Geithner can do a lounge act on the Vegas strip, since they seem to be such funny guys of late.