Connecticut Democratic senator Chris Dodd is up for reelection in 2010. Republicans are chomping at the bit to take on the career senator, who is alleged to have received sweet mortgage deals from infamous Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo. Recently the former GOP congressman Rob Simmons announced he will run to challenge Dodd. Another name that's occasionally mentioned: CNBC host and committed supply sider Larry Kudlow. Whoever the GOP nominee is, things are looking good. A recent Quinnipiac poll shows Simmons already tied with Dodd. Now, the campaign hasn't even begun, a lot will happen between now and November 2010, yadda yadda yadda. At this point the GOP ought to take what it can get. And look what it got! Dodd apparently entered language into the stimulus bill guaranteeing "contractually obligated" bonuses "agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009." Bonuses just like AIG's, in other words. It further turns out that Dodd has taken more than a quarter million dollars in campaign donations from AIG and its employees over the last two decades. So: Dodd is not only friends with mortgage lender bad guy number one, he is also friends with evil insurance giant number one. That has to hurt his chances, no?