HEY DODD! January Can't Come Too Soon. Don't Let The Door Hit You......

[Me.]

Dodd Downplays Warren Role At CFPB

“Sen.Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who is retiring at the end of this term, downplayed on Thursday the role that Elizabeth Warren has been assigned to set up and run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"What I gather is Elizabeth will be some sort of adviser in all this," Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, told reporters in the Capitol. "They need to send us a director, though, a nominee. The issue's no different today than it was yesterday. We need a nominee that can be confirmed by the Senate to run the place."

An administration official told HuffPost that Warren will be named "assistant to the president and special adviser to the Treasury," in charge of setting up the CFPB.

Dodd has been one of the most outspoken Democrats during the debate over whether to name Warren to run the agency that she is credited with devising and helping shepherd through Congress. He has repeatedly insisted that she is "unconfirmable" -- which means she wouldn't garner the 60 votes needed to defeat a GOP filibuster -- and Dodd and Warren clashed on occasion during the debate over financial regulatory reform.”…cont…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/dodd-downplays-warren-rol_n_719526.html

[gateley]

1. Well we DO need someone who will be confirmed by the Senate, but too bad that's not the

motivation for your 'concern', Dodd. You have become such a disappointment to me. One of 'them'. :( It breaks my heart.

[trumad]

2. Michael Moore exposed this crook bigtime.

[DevonRex]

3. Obama's just waiting your last term out, Dodd. What "you need" is irrelevant now.

Had Dodd been on the side of Warren he might have been useful. As it is, he's a complete nonentity. Warren has real power right away and when the time is right (once Dodd is out of the Senate), she'll be officially nominated for confirmation.

Poor ole' Chris, having to resort to downplaying somebody else's role in order to puff up his own importance.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Dodd will be exposed by Warren for the influence pedaler he is.

He knows this. Unless he can confirm someone equally corrupt, he won't confirm at all.

[nykym]

4. Nothing worse than

a retiring lame duck senator

[Me.]

5. Who Wants A Big Fat Cushy Job

[nykym]

7. Maybe he was counting

on a recess appointment instead of Warren! (fat chance)