Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) who inserted an addendum in the stimulus bill that allowed for the payment of bonuses at AIG is blaming the White House for his actions.

From the Politico.

Congressional Democrats took aim at the Obama administration Wednesday, blaming the president’s economic team for creating a loophole that allowed AIG to pay its employees millions of dollars in bonuses and then not doing enough to stop the bonuses when it could.

And their warp-speed effort to get the money back made it clear that congressional Democrats don’t think the White House is moving fast enough to solve the problem now.

In an interview with CNN Wednesday evening, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said that “staff-level people” at the Treasury Department pushed him to add what seemed like “innocent modifications” to an amendment he offered to the stimulus bill — and that language, in turn, made it possible for the bailed-out insurance giant to pay its employees more than $100 million in bonuses last week.

“The public confidence in our ability is being adversely affected — not just mildly, but seriously,” Dodd said.

Unbelievable!  First he denies that he had anything to do with the addendum, then he admits that he is responsible and now he blames the White House for pushing the idea.  What a coward! Dodd is in some political trouble because of the favorable loans he received from Countrywide as well as the bonus issue and he is looking for a straw man to take the blame. So much for personal responsibility.

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