dodd

Welcome to the 'dodd' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'dodd'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dodd”

• Chris Dodd Embraces Secrecy and Bailouts, Redux

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 717
  Back in May, Marcy Wheeler and I met with Chris Dodd, and I asked him if he knew, as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which banks the Fed was lending to. He said he’d find out and get back to me.  He finally did.  He asks the Fed why he shouldn’t know these things, they told him, and he sent me their ...
  5 hours ago

• Wall Street’s Fat Cats Are Still In Charge

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 729
  By Robert Scheer Most Americans now know that Wall Street bankers are so greedy as to never be trusted, and I suppose it is a sign of progress that our president now seems to grasp the obvious. How depressing, though, that a man who was elected as a consequence of one of the boldest grass-roots populist ...
  15 hours ago

• Amidst the Lieberman Drama, Some Wrangling Over Drug Prices

  
  Swampland — Authority: 726
  Tonight the Senate began voting on amendments to the health care bill for the first time in days. Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to "reimport" drugs from foreign countries. It was was voted down 51-48. (Amendments ...
  20 hours ago

• Pakistan Shoots Itself In The Foot, In Its Face, In Its Brain. Does It Want To Survive? The President Might Well Ask.

  
  The New Republic - The Spine Feed — Authority: 117
  Long before he became president Barack Obama had carved out a reasonably aggressive policy towards Pakistan and its equivocating stance towards Al Qaeda. In fact, it was early on in his candidacy (August 1, 2007, in fact) that he gave a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center which promised that the ...
  23 hours ago

• Point/Counterpoint

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  "I am a proud defender of a womans right to choose. This amendment represents an unprecedented — and, in my view, deeply unfair and regressive — assault on a womans right to choose." — Corrupt Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd, on the defeat of a pro-life amendment to Obamacare bill, Dec. 8 vs. "Rarely a week goes ...
  1 day ago

• One sinking ship tries to save another: Biden campaigns for Dodd

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 595
  Joe Biden, who is apparently still Vice President, came to the aid of Chris Dodd and remarked that Dodd is “getting the living hell beat out of him.” At first we were shocked at the blatant honesty of the statement, and by the amount of sense the hitherto sense-lacking Vice President demonstrated. Then, of ...
  1 day ago

• Obama to work to solidify support for health bill (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - After months of turmoil, President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are reaching for the unity they need to pass health care legislation by Christmas, but without the government-run insurance program that liberals have long sought.
  1 day ago

• Solid B Plus? Obama Must Grade on a Curve!

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 536
  I’m sure you’ve heard that President Obama gave himself an overall B+ on his job performance this first year. He’s got to be grading on a curve. How else does one call the hockey stick of unemployment an economic success? I know, I know, he inherited a mess he and his fellow Democrats helped create. But ...
  1 day ago

• Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from historic health care legislation Monday … Read the original here: (AP)"> (AP)">Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul (AP)
  1 day ago

• Exit Dodd, Enter Blumenthal

  
  YourCT.com — Authority: 135
  With recent headlines bemoaning polls, and pundits referring to Senator Chris Dodd as the embattled Senator, it’s no surprise that the drum beats from Washington are beating the tune that privately Connecticut Democratic officials have been privately saying for weeks, Dodd is practically unelectable and so ...
  1 day ago

• Dodd not a dirty word to the Dump Dodders

  
  Capitol Watch — Authority: 599
  The national GOP may be strategically silent on the states senior Senator, but that doesnt mean the grassroots activists are holding their fire. According to an interesting story in POLITICO last week by reporters Manu Raju and Glenn Thrush, "Dodd has become a dirty word to national Republicans." They are laying ...
  2 days ago

• HR 4173, Financial Reform, Out of the House

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 140
  As you may have heard, HR 4173, The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, passed the House on Friday. It passed still containing a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, after a last minute amendment to replace the agency with a series of regulators failed. The Lynch Amendment (which we discussed ...
  2 days ago

• Rush Limbaugh: Putting the GOP & Conservatives in Harms Way…

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 625
  An Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh: Rush, since I can never get through and have no time to sit and dial, redial, etc. This will have to suffice.  Slim chance that you’ll ever read it but maybe some caring person will forward it to you.    They do you an extreme disservice if they do not.  Lets [...]
  2 days ago

• Karmic Payback or Hillary’s Revenge? You Decide…

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 532
  * A Great Post, Bumped Up * Colleen O’Connor, San Diego News Network, penned a fun article: King Obama v. Queen Clinton — Check or Checkmate? Her thesis is that the patient “Queen” is slowly but surely vanquishing the foes who betrayed her for Obama last year. I have another theory. Political operatives ...
  2 days ago

• A Ferry Good Debate, Plus: Himes, Finch Announce Bridge Bucks

  
  Only In Bridgeport — Authority: 127
  Afternoon Update : Where do you want your ship to come in? East End City Council members Jim Holloway and Andre Baker want to relocate the Bridgeport Port Jefferson Steamboat Company to a new ferry terminal in their neighborhood. That would be a nice addition to the East End, no? But at what cost to downtown? ...
  2 days ago

• Our Towns: Connecticut Faces Winter of Discontent

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Next year will be the most unsettled in four decades in Connecticut politics, and perhaps offers a glimpse of how uneasy voters are elsewhere.
  2 days ago

• Medicare buy-in plan runs into Senate resistance (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  AP – A plan to let people as young as 55 buy into Medicare, heralded as a breakthrough in the … View original post here: (AP)"> (AP)">Medicare buy-in plan runs into Senate resistance (AP)
  2 days ago

• Dodd Fell 13 December 2009

  
  northern pies — Authority: 120
  Quite a nice day today, which makes for a really nice change – I didn’t even have to wear my gloves – although, as the pictures will testify, it was a bit dark from early afternoon. We’d been to the bank to get money for the car park, and initially investigated the Ropemaker’s car park in Hawes, where a ...
  2 days ago

• Senate Polls/Connecticut/Chris Dodd

  
  Right Pundits — Authority: 140
  This is the second post of many about some of the races for the Senate in 2010. My job is to present you with the numbers that have been polled to date and to analyze that data. Other posts will analyze the race itself, along with the candidates and their positions. Since I am so familiar with the Senate race in ...
  2 days ago

• Simmons vs. Dodd in Connecticut

  
  Right Pundits — Authority: 140
  The Senate race in Connecticut promises to be one of the most exciting in the nation next year. We shall begin our analyses of next year’s election by examining the issues that both candidates plan to emphasize, and their positions on those issues. Rob Simmons – Simmons, the likely Republican candidate, ...
  2 days ago

Comments about dodd