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  • Chris Dodd Embraces Secrecy and Bailouts, Redux


    FiredoglakeAuthority 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 HeadlinesAuthority 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


    SwamplandAuthority 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 FeedAuthority 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


    StupidicaAuthority 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 FeedAuthority 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)


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    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 ConservativeAuthority 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)


    enUwsAuthority 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.comAuthority 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 WatchAuthority 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 2.0Authority 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 NetworkAuthority 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 QUARTERAuthority 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 BridgeportAuthority 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 > TheaterAuthority 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)


    enUwsAuthority 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 piesAuthority 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 PunditsAuthority 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 PunditsAuthority 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

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