{"id":628,"date":"2009-03-17T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2009-03-17T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:11:16","slug":"something_the_news_forgot_to_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Something The News Forgot To Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on one of the articles in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/you_can_lease_chris_dodd_but_y.html\">American Thinker<\/a>&nbsp;is &#8220;You can lease Chris Dodd, but you can&#8217;t buy him.&#8221;&nbsp; What are they talking about?&nbsp; This is amazing.&nbsp; You need to read the whole article to get the full force of what he did, but he is becoming another living exhibit of why we need term limits.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<div><font face=\"times new roman,times\" size=\"3\"><em>&#8220;While the Senate constructed the $787 billion stimulus last month, Dodd unexpectedly added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill. That amendment provides an &#8220;exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009,&#8221; which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are seeking to tax. The amendment is in the final version and is law.&#8221;<\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div><em><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/em>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Chris Dodd was the person who originally suggested huge taxes on the AIG bonuses.&nbsp; Why are congressmen singling out individuals for tax penalties?&nbsp; This is the kind of behavior that goes on in banana republics.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">According to opensecrets.com, Dodd was the largest single recipient of AIG&#8217;s 2008 campaign donations.&nbsp; One of their largest offices is based in Connecticut.&nbsp;<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on one of the articles in today&#8217;s American Thinker&nbsp;is &#8220;You can lease Chris Dodd, but you can&#8217;t buy him.&#8221;&nbsp; What are they talking about?&nbsp; This is amazing.&nbsp; You need to read the whole article to get the full &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}