Chris Dodd, apparently, is making lobbyists cry, because he’s so, you know, mean to them.

I wonder if that includes Dodd’s former staff director, Richard Tarplin, who was chairman of the major lobbying firm Timmons & Co., before he left to start his own firm, catering to biotech and health care companies with issues before Dodd’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee. Tarplin also represented Freddie Mac, whom Dodd protected from oversight.