CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Connecticut Senator Draws Voters’ Ire for His Bonus Role. “Across Connecticut, anger is erupting against Mr. Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, whose stature in Washington once reflected the state’s beneficial ties with the financial industry. Now, he finds himself a symbol of the political establishment’s coziness with tainted corporations and a target of populist wrath over their excesses. . . . In dozens of interviews, residents said they were appalled by Mr. Dodd’s ties to financial firms and believed that he had damaged himself as he prepares to run for re-election next year.”

This will increase anger over the sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide and the whole Irish “cottage” business, too, I imagine.