There has been some Democrat infighting in Washington the past two days.
In essence: Chris Dodd proposed an amendment to the stimulus bill that would limit bonuses for bailout recipients (creatively called the Dodd Amendment). In the final bill, the amendment applied to bonuses guaranteed after January 2008. The AIG bonuses were guaranteed in January 2008 so are not covered by the Dodd Amendment.
Dodd claims that the date was not included in the amendment when he wrote it and he had no idea it would protect AIG.
But considering he has gotten more money in campaign contributions from AIG than almost everyone else, you have to wonder about the veracity of his claims.
Either way, there is a lot of finger pointing going on, and none of it involves Republicans.
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Did you hear the Rasmussen report about how Republicans are WAY ahead in blank ballot polls for the mid-term? 2010 is going to be an interesting year.
Last I heard Dems held a very narrow lead...
Reps 41, Dems 39 in the average with a lot of districts much wider:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_ballot/generic_congressional_ballot
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