THE BIG MOUTH OF SENATOR CHRIS DODD: “Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, R-Conn., [sic] sent bank stocks into a tailspin Friday with an unguarded comment. The White House had to issue its own comment later to restore equilibrium to stock markets. Some speculators could have made or lost millions. . . . He didn’t know anything. He was just shooting off his mouth. But major bank stocks lost a quarter to a third of their entire value in a matter of minutes.”

The country’s in the very best of hands.

UPDATE: They no longer have Dodd as a Republican at the link.