Follow this link to the Frank Rich column in the New York Time.

Now that Chris Dodd is vacating the Senate, his chairmanship of the Banking Committee may fall next year to Tim Johnson of South Dakota, home to Citi’s credit card operation. Johnson was the only Senate Democrat to vote against Congress’s recent bill policing credit card abuses.

And my fellow central Massachusetts citizens scoffed at my claim that we would be sorry for the loss of Chris Dodd as Senator from Connecticut.