Obama Urged to call for Dodd, Conrad Resignations
Posted by Nate Jastrow at 6/13/2008 9:12 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
"If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all."
Barack Obama - The Audacity of Hope
Senator Obama needs to get started on "Change we can believe in" by calling for the resignation of these two senators:
Conrad and Dodd reap a bountiful harvest from the
garden of hypocrisy.
We find out now that Senators Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd received special loans from Countrywide Financial.
From MSNBC.com:
"Conrad obtained a $1.16 million loan from Countrywide in 2002 to buy
his vacation home, then refinanced twice through the company. Portfolio
reported that an internal e-mail from Mozilo instructed an employee to
give Conrad a 1-percent discount off his interest rate on his 2004
refinance of $1.07 million, a savings of about $10,000 a year in
interest payments."
"If they did me a favor, they did it without my knowledge and without my requesting it," Conrad said. "It's an appearance issue, but in terms of substance, I have not done one single thing wrong here."
It is impossible to believe that the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committe (Conrad) and the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee (Dodd) did not know prevailing mortgage rates and were therefore ignorant of the special deals they received. "If they did me a favor, they did it without my knowledge and without my requesting it," Conrad said. "It's an appearance issue, but in terms of substance, I have not done one single thing wrong here."
These "Friends of Angelo" represent all that is wrong in Washington. They present themselves as "public servants" who "humble themselves" for the good of the American People when they, in fact, are getting theirs while the getting is good. The hypocrisy must end. These two must go, if for no other reason than to remind the rest of Congress that business as usual is no longer acceptable.
I don't usually curse, but Dodd and Conrad are a couple of slimy cocksuckers. Resign? Hell, they should be locked up with their fellow crooks.
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