Chris Matthews's Hardball featured a segment where Willie Brown, Joan Walsh, and Chris commented on the Brown/Whitman and Blumenthal/McMahon contests for the US Senate in CA and CT. After watching an exchange between the two CT candidates. Chris shook his head in wonderment and in the midst of some contemptuous chuckles said: Read below the fold...
I just got a note from Chris Dodd that says in part:
One thing is crystal clear: you want substantial health care reform, and you want it now.
I've been reading through your ideas and comments about health care reform, and the common thread through virtually all of them is that you want a real solution to cover all Americans and reduce costs.
At the bottom is a link to donate money to Chris Dodd. This man cannot get a decent bill out of the HELP Committee, and he wants my money. Nothing doing. Read below the fold...
Senator Chris Dodd released the details of his Countrywide mortgages. In a statement released with it he said that he would refinance the loans. But, please, pay no attention to this fact: Read below the fold...
On the first day of a listening tour on health care, an issue pivotal to the new Congress and his own re-election, U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd got an earful Friday.
I'm not a weepy-eyed romantic when it comes to the Constitution, but I do believe in rewarding good behavior and symbolic gestures that can have an impact on the political process. As a Little Person, the chance to make the latter comes very, very infrequently. Most of the time our Betters don't give a flying fuck what we do. I think this time it's different. Read below the fold...
A provisional cheer at that, although I'm inclined to make that two provisional cheers.
What I'd like to suggest, no doubt to the consternation of most readers, is that Reid's decision to pull the FISA bill Monday evening was pretty much what Reid had in mind the whole time.
What I'm sure of is that the many comments I've read that characterize what happened on the Senate floor on Monday as Reid having been forced to pull the bill by Chris Dodd's threat of a filibuster simply don't match what I saw, via C-Span's live streaming. Read below the fold...
Two other Senators at least -- Feingold and Kennedy -- have committed to being on the floor to enable Dodd to take periodic breaks by asking questions. Despite issuing prior statements claiming they would support Dodd's filibuster, none of the other presidential candidates in the Senate -- Clinton, Obama or Biden -- have indicated that they will do so tomorrow.
Boy, do Hillary and Obama both suck. What a surprise! Just to refresh your memories. Read below the fold...
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[UPDATE: Comedy gold! Pravda on the Potomac's weak-chinned Fred Hiatt buries the story on D01.]
[UPDATE: SJC puts off granting the telcos immunity, because the Republicans demanded more time to consider the 26 amendments. At least they didn't go with Spector's bogus Compromise, where the Federal government--that is, you and me as taxpayers--would have assumed the liability the telcos are on the hook for. Modified rapture.]
