BLAST FROM THE PAST: Remembering Chris Dodd and Enron. ” As a result of Dodd’s intervention, the SEC agreed not to issue a ban on the practice of auditing and consulting for the same client. Such practices have led to what Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) called ‘the kind of hide-the-debt shell game that took place at Enron.’ In an ultimate act of hypocrisy, Dodd has now actually introduced legislation to ban accounting firms from doing consulting for companies it audits, precisely the same policy he killed when the SEC was considering it.”

Kind of got a pattern here, don’t we? Next we’ll find out that Dodd’s shady Irish cottage had a subprime loan . . . .