Once a career politician...always one......he wont give it up..glad he wont make it to president though.....lol

Flip flopper the!He follows and never leads.Clinton`s are Leaders,it`s just the way they are.Evidence of the History weighed out tells their tale.Not one thing they did yesterday afternoon at 3:00pm.When all is weighed out the Clinton Adminstration was and will be in History the most highly productive Administration yet....Dodd History when weighed out speaks of Joy rides.I don`t think he has a creative bone in his body,so to speak.If there were 10 people in a room and 9 voted nay and He wanted yes he would vote Nay because he has no backbone to take a stand,he likes to blend in.What he dosn`t know is that in blending in he is obviously boring.and appears like a undercover Republican pretending to be a democrate.~Peace Glenna~

the political "machine" needs to be fed... lierberman has been consumed, sh*t, i have yet to see him in CT or at a parade...the same is happening to dodd, if we wrote him or lierberman @ their Ct address the letters would be returned saying "not a CT resident" but they will fill their coffers here in ct, if one considers dollarfield / i mean fairfield county part of Connecticut, who cares, they are all NY Yankee fans down there anyway...poor saps...

Last I checked Lieberman was slimed by the extreme left in the Democrat party because of his postion of supporting Bush on the war on terror. Dodd should get out of politics in my opion because he is for Dodd and not the people. Also Dodd shunned Lieberman because of moveon.org and Dailykos.com threats. In other words Dodd caters to those organizations and they have him in their pocket.
Yes it is time to get politicains who do the right thing and are not scared of political hate groups. Lieberman demonstrated leadership and Dodd doesn't. I think the Connecticut voters seen through the smoke when the voted Lieberman back into office. It will be interesting to see if Dodd gets reelected.

There's nothing worse then lifelong politicians. One would think their "experience" would be an asset - however the FAVORS OWED is what hurts the taxpayer!
TERM LIMITS - TERM LIMITS - TERM LIMITS!!!
Just how long could YOU last at your job missing meetings??
It should be made MANDATORY that if they are running for another office - the have to resign for their existing position.

I agree with TERM LIMITS, So far it seems like the same old crowd controlling our money. And they just keep spending it! Ask yourself this: Is the state any better off than ten years ago.Are you any better off?

Dodd is wasting my tax dollers by not doing a job he is being paid for, Talk about Govt waste.He has no chance I think at this point its an ego thing for him.

Mark,

I think the comparison isn't fair or accurate. You also give the populace too much credit, for the truth is that we have an extremely short memory. Yes, we will criticize our politicians for being out promoting themselves, even to become president, instead of being in Washington doing the people's business. But in Lieberman's case, I think it was his support for the war in an environment of rapidly decreasing support for the war by the voters.

I also think that there was also the audacity of running for both re-election in the Senate and Vice President at the same time in 2004. Whether that was on the minds of most voters in 2006, or just with politics and law geeks like me, though, I'm not so sure.

The Founding Fathers had it right in the origional concept where citizens would serve in congress for a term with the intent that,when complete they would go back home to their real world life and job.
This would insure that the representatives would be kept in touch with what life was like for the average citizen and do what was in their best interest.
If there ever was an example of how right they were it is Chris Dodd. An example of pure ego
. The people who know him best, CT citizens,
would not even vote for him for president as the primary polls indicate.
Although there exceptions, I think overall,
term limits would be a good thing.

I echo the sentiments of others here:

1. Chris Dodd needs to give up his Presidential aspirations.
2. Chris Dodd is a Senator from CT - elected by the people of CT. He should be serving the citizens of CT.
3. Term limits are a good thing - like with the President - 3 consecutive terms, then you are done. If you want to come back after that, then fine, but there needs to be fresh blood in our political systems, not the same old tired political hacks.

Beholden to MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups, Dodd has ignored the progress made in Iraq by the surge, diminished the efforts of our military, and wasted precious time with failed attempts to force an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. He continues to try to argue for this course, which would lead to chaos in the region, the creation of a possible terror state with the third largest oil reserves in the world, and a major propaganda victory for Osama bin Laden as well as for Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah

So why would any one want Dodd to be President? He should come home and resign.

Mark Davis calls it "Lieberized" Well, In my opinion,the Democrat Party as a whole would be much better off if it WERE lieberized> Dodd is too far to the left. He is nothing like his father was.

It's the Democratic party, not the Democrat party. You all give yourselves away when you say that, everyone else sees that you only get your news from the rabid right sources and the propaganda organization that tries to pass itself off as a legitimate news. Not just Fox, but rabid foxes.

Democracy is defended by the Republicans,and the Democratc`s are rooted in Communism,(community living) no independant thinking or living one big community (to the (Republic)for which it stands)....Think about it.~Peace Glenna~

If Dodd wants to be president he should resign his Senate seat. It is obvious by now he is well down in the polls so he should abandon the presidential race if he wants to stay in the Senate. Maybe he figures he has nothing to lose since he's already signaled he will not run again in 2010.

I was stunned when I read the article a few weeks ago saying Dodd had literally moved his family to Iowa so he could campaign full time there. Sounds like he has largely abandoned CT so we essentially have only one senator here. That's outrageous and I am surprised the rest of the CT media have not made that a bigger story.

The Financial Times reported---
"The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a "hyper-partisan, politically paranoid" liberal base that could endanger the final nominee's chances of winning next year's presidential election, Joe Lieberman, the former vice-presidential Democratic candidate, said yesterday.

In his most outspoken attack on fellow Democrats since he was unsuccessfully challenged last year by Ned Lamont, a liberal Democrat, for his Senate seat in Connecticut, Mr Lieberman yesterday said he might not vote for the Democratic presidential nominee next year."

Presidential campaigns aren't only to win the White House. Sometimes they are campaigns for another office entirely, like the vice presidency or a Cabinet position. Sometimes they are campaigns for respectability or for recognition. Sometimes they are campaigns for redemption. And viewed in that way, it is arguable that sometimes losing campaigns for a presidential nomination are more successful than winning ones.

Sorry Jill,

And just where do you in the Demoncrat Party get your (mis) info. I'd be willing to bet it's from moveon.org, the Daily Kos, or CNN or one of those left wing nut sites sponsered by George Soros LOL

I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying or even how much I owed

bob seger

George, I'd never even heard of Soros, moveon, or dailykos until the people on the right were having meltdowns over them.

It's like I said on another blog, the people on the right give way too much credit to these groups. I guess it's so you can feel more comfortable with your own extreme ideology. You'd rather believe the left is just brainwashed and controlled by a handful. That is laughable because on the left side of the political spectrum, there is more infighting than even what we are all seeing and talking about on the right these days. On the liberal side of things, our very diversity makes it impossible for any one smaller element among us to have much control over the rest.

And it is the Democratic Party.

The deliberate disrespect is disgusting. So that makes you disgusting.

I have ony one thing to say about Dodd


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Jill K-- do you look in the mirror when you post your rantings? Also, You should investigate things a little more if have never heard of Soros and moreon.org or daily kos. Know one said the left is controlled by those organizations-- the left simply parrots them--so what is one to conclude. BTY I don't consider myself anything but a traditional American that respects our heritage and thinks this is the greatest contry ever concieved by man. If that makes people like me a right winger then fine.
I think the Democrat pary has become in line with Socialism and is a much more leftest organization than when Truman and Kennedy were arround.

Chris Dodd should not be victimized just because he isn’t doing a great job in senate. I think he has done a great job in Connecticut in the past! I think George W. Bush should be impeached by the congress or by petition, because he is the one who is spending money on the useless Iraq war, its like spending money to have a garbage can scrubbed out everyday even though it’s going to get dirty again! I really think that Chris Dodd should be our next president since he is now not running for senate in 2010. And it would make perfect since too because he is very knowledgeable on being a leader (since he has been running Connecticut for almost 35 years and he has gotten us through all of the most horrible times) and I think all of the other presidential candidates don’t fit the criteria for being president of the United States! Because for an example, Hilary Clinton will never be president because we always had a man lead our country ever since Washington and Obama is too religious!

Brenden-----Do you use the SAME logic after you deficate?..........just wondering.......

I love the people hating on Dodd. Hey, you know why he has to spend all this time? Because goons like you buy into the super-early campaign BS. Tell the media, and I'm looking at you too WTNH, to stuff it back up their butts until only a few months before the election.

Waste of money and time with all this un-needed campaigning that is done, in my opinion, to produce advertising revenue.


If you make less than $150,000 a year, and you vote republican, you're a freakin' sucker.

Oh did someone mention the utter failure of Iraq? Rumsfeld promised 6 months, and Bush insulted a man who estimated the final cost at 50% of the current bill!

Bush had no plan to handle Iraq after the invasion, and our inept career military, devoid of fresh blood, has failed to execute time and time again.

Let's stop the bleeding folks, and the hell out of Iraq. I mean, if there had been an internal coup, this same violence would be happening. I think we've done enough to offset Bush's idiotic desire for nation building.

Bring our troops home!

The political party's started this "14+ months campaign" crap.......I hope they both run out money before March of '08 and give us ALL a break...........

Dodd has a snowballs chance of winning the white house - and he is stuck at 1% > however, 1%
is still 1%, and he owes it to his supporters and
and his doners to stay in the race until at
least the Ohio votes have been cast.

DaveR,

Now WHY in the world would you think I had a mirror affixed to my computer screen? Are you accusing me of vanity? :-P

Seriously,
1. I never said I don't now know who those people and groups are, just that it was the rabid conservatives foaming at the mouth over them that brought them to my attention. I must admit that with moveon.org, I had heard of them but then forgot about them in a way. Once the conservative wonks went nuts about moveon in recent months, and I checked them out, I did remember that they were a group that was doing clever ads during the 2004 presidential election.

2. Whether you've said the left was "controlled" by them or "parrots" them, or they parrot the left-leaning politicians... whatever, and frankly, I don't have the time, or the desire, to look back at your posts. You and the other extreme right-wingers who hang out on these blogs DO give these groups way too much credit, though.

I mostly don't get my information from blogs and interest groups. I start my mornings with Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. I don't mind his conservatism, or the fact that he lobs softballs at the likes of people who have glowingly good things to say about Joe McCarthy, or the fact that he defends Karl Rove. I want to hear why he believes as he does because I find him to be smart and rational, and he's very analytical. I like that.

I even occasionally listen to the ones I call the crazies, like Rush and Bill O. Only small doeses of that poison, though.

My point here is that why in the world would I want to hear from people who already believe as I do. Most liberals that I know get their information from a variety of sources and actively seek conservative viewpoints. I have no fear of that. Most conservatives I know immerse themselves solely in a world of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilley, and Laura Ingraham. What good is that? They are just fearmongers and hatemongers.

3. Your assessment of my party, the DemocratIC Party... First, I think JFK is a very overrated president. Second, if my party is going back to FDR populism and standing up for the little guys, that would be wonderful. Maybe, I dare not hope too much, but maybe I could be proud of being a Democrat again.

And anyway, regarding Republicans and the Republican Party. Poor Nixon, with his scandals, does not get the credit he deserves as being our last truly liberal president. He did more to expand social programs for the poor and middle class than any other president since. And Clinton, by the way, has done more to shrink government than any president in my lifetime.

As to the state of the Republican Party today. Well you all have certainly strayed from the ideals of Eisenhower who warned us of the dangers of a perpetually self-reinforcing Military Industrial Complex. And you've certainly strayed very far from the anti-trust ideals of Teddy Roosevelt. (You still have his let's meddle in foreign countries philosophy, though.)

4. Finally, you will be wasting your time if you in one sentence refer to my party as the "Democrat Party" and in the next address me directly. Say whatever you want to say to me, but if you genuinely want a response from me (and I'm inclined to think that you in fact do not) you will respect that one small request.

Some one in Politic`s needs to do somthing about the writers strike,they have mental patients writing movies.I just saw an add for one .Awake.~Peace Glenna~

Yes Glenna..They DO have mental patients writing movies. Just look at Al Gore LOL

Democrat Party, Democrat Party ! Ya ya ya ya ya

Jill you and Robbin among others seem to parrot the moveon and dailykos left wing garbage where character assassination and verbal bomb throwers are common place as well as hate Bush to a point of ridiculous. Regardless of the left wing garbage, Bush and Cheney are honorable people. Mistakes have been made and are to be expected when fighting a justifiable War on Terror. However, things are looking better in Iraq and we should be very thankful that Bush and Cheney listen to the Generals and not the zealots in the media and as it turns out Congress.
It is very un-American to desire to loose a war that we have and are engaged in. If the left wingers want to continue their present track of loosing a war that many have sacrificed and paid dearly for, they will eventually loose the American public at large. It is amazing to me how the Democrat’s are campaigning against this war as they are. They can BS some of the people all of the time but they cannot BS all the people all the time.

DaveR, Well, you are going to think what you want to think, but I'm definitely not parroting those groups. And I'm sorry but I do not think it is unAmerican to criticize Bush and Cheney when I consider them to be war criminals. Just for a second, don't get your hackles raised over that. Believe me when I say that I genuinely believe this to be true. I felt this and saw this coming in 2002 with the drumbeat for war. Nobody was questioning the war. My husband and I talked to each other only about these feelings. I could not believe how the people I call the Patriotism Police, politicians and pundits alike, were painting as unAmerican any who even questioned.

You will never agree with me. You have a vastly different worldview as someone on the Right. I'm truly not trying to change your worldview.

I would like it if you just considered for a moment that I love this country as much as you do. And if I see this Administration commit what I think are grave wrongs. I have an obligation to stand up and say so. The fact that I think that we need to end this war, I don't want us to "lose". In fact I'm baffled that the Right uses that kind of rhetoric. Although I thought this war was a bad idea, given that it did happen, I am proud of our military and how they succeeded in toppling Saddam's regime. Our military has done everything it can with not enough equipment and a small number of combat troops.

It seems to me that the Bush Administration never thought beyond toppling the regime in Baghdad. To say mistakes were made is an understatement. It really isn't even hardly a war anymore. It's an occupation. And the Bush Administration has fired everyone who years ago predicted the difficulty in such an occupation, and those who have said for several years now that the Administration needs to change its approach in this occupation phase.

Dave, if you are an old-fashioned type who believes that you shouldn't criticize the commander-in-chief no matter what, OK, I respect that but disagree strongly. But did you also feel that way when Clinton was commander-in-chief?

OK, it's late, I have insomnia, and I'm rambling. I just had to respond to your comment that we on the left seem to want to "lose". That is the tired, simplistic rhetoric that the right tends to use, and it is not only not helpful but it is dangerous.

One more thought... you seem to be confusing the war on terror with the Iraq War. It seems to me that only the right is still blurring that distinction, and Dick Cheney in particular still seems to be trying desperately to hang onto a link between Saddam and Al Qaeda. That is wrong. That is dishonorable, and I will call him out on that.

Dissent is not unpatriotic.

Very good Jill. However you seem blinded by the left wing mantra-- You say I am old fashion, but I say I am a tradiditional Ameracan-- you know the one that has accomplished so much over the centuries--albeit with a few unfortunate mistakes. But I don't dwell on the mistakes but learn from them while emphasizing the good.

OK, Dave, but it sure seems to me that you and many on the right don't actually want to learn from mistakes, but downplay the mistakes at best and deny the mistakes, and I would add wrongs, at worst.

I'd still like to know if you think that President Clinton as commander-in-chief served honorably and deserved respect as such.

And I still don't know what you mean by left-wing mantra. Anyway, you think I'm blinded by left-wing talking points, I think you are likewise blinded by the right-wing talking points. Let's just agree with each other about that, and agree to disagree about most everything else. :-)