Chris Dodd: POS

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On the same day that the sweeping financial reform bearing his name, it comes out that Senator Chris Dodd also received a preferential mortgage from Countrywide under a "VIP" program. The mortgage was set at rates much lower than those available to the general public. Usually, these rates were for Countrywide employees, but a few VIPs were given these kickbacks bribes payoffs rates also. The mortgages were of course then packaged and sold to Freddie and Fannie.

Oh the irony, I am rolling around in it like a warm mud bath, trying to protect myself from the little mosquito which whispers "it would be funny if were not true."

At least it makes me feel a tad better and lets me ignore for a little bit how these idiots are destroying the potential future and growth of this country.

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