Welcome to the Lake, Senator Dodd!

Hello Senator Dodd. My condolences about Mr. Lamont’s defeat. I hope he will run again.

Welcome, Senator. I’ve been listening as you start to make your case, and like what you have to say. I also want to thank you for helping Selden Spencer in Iowa 4. Not very many did.

Welcome Senator Dodd,
I was pleased to meet you during the Lamont campaign and grateful for your support of Ned. I’m sorry for us all that things didn’t work out differently.

Your support for habeas corpus and the rule of law in the face of this mal administration has been appreciated as well.

Senator Dodd, we’re really proud to welcome you to Firedoglake. Thanks for taking the time. I can imagine between the Senate, the presidential campaign and some crazy speech Bush is making tonite, you’re probably a busy guy. Did Cheney resign yet?

Welcome Senator Dodd!

I had to honor of speaking to your father about the Vietname War when I was in high school and it’s great to see you here and equally open to discussing the issues of the day with constituents!

I’m particularly looking forward to information on your new legistlation - could you fill us in?

Hi everyone. I’m with Senator Dodd’s campiagn. He’ll be joining us momentarily. I do want to let you all know that Majority Leader Reid just scheduled a vote for 4:45pm. He’ll try and get to as many questions as possible before he heads back to the Senate chamber to vote.

Tim, what’s the vote on?

Welcome Senator!

This has turned out to be a very busy news day. Thank you for joining us for however long you can.

Welcome Senator Dodd, it’s an honor to have you here with us at FDL today.

Tim - thanks for the headsup on the vote - we appreciate whatever time the Senator can give us!

Tim, please thank Senator Dodd for me; the FMLA was incredibly helpful following the births of both of my children, made it possible for me to spend important quality time with them during the weeks immediately after they were born, when getting into a rhythm with babies is critical. There must be so many families who’ve benefited from this legislation; it’s real family values at work.

I am looking forward to hearing about his latest efforts on Effective Terrorist Prosecution, and hope that it will be as successful as FMLA has been.

Hope the Senator doesn’t mind the competition with the other threads, though; FireDogLake is certainly the place to be today!

Senator Dodd, What are the chances of getting a binding resolution on Iraq funding passed in the Senate? Thanks

1970cs @
13

Senator Dodd, What are the chances of getting a binding resolution on Iraq funding passed in the Senate? Thanks

And more to the point, passed with a veto-proof majority?

Good afternoon everyone. Thanks for inviting me to this conversation. First of all, I’d like to wish Jane best well as she recovers from her surgery.

The vote on the MCA that rolled back years of accumulated effort to lead the world and was one of my the saddest days in the Senate.

Rolling back habeus corpus, letting the president define torture, and stepping back from the Geneva convention was wrong.

We should be prosecuting real terrorists. The president’s policies will make it far more difficult to prosecute real terrorists who are trying to do us real harm

Torture doesn’t work. It is morally offensive. It yields bad information.

Thirdly, it places our armed forces at risk of being subjected to torture.

Lastly, in order to build international cooperation on every other issue, our departure from the Geneva Convention makes us further isolated in the world.

My bill reverses all of that.

Efforts to stop the use of Torture are so important - I’m really pleased we have someone speaking for us on that!

Senator Dodd, thank you so much for the FMLA. It made it so that I could work for several more years than I otherwise would have been able to.
It’s something that I point out to people who say, “Politics don’t matter, my vote doesn’t matter.”
Hello? FMLA!

Senator - are there ways we can help on the torture issue? like asking our Senators to sign on?

Senator Dodd, do you think your proposed bill has a decent chance of passing, and if so, do you think it will be veto’d?

Welcome, Senator - a CT constituent here, wondering how you’ll use your platform as a presidential candidate and sitting Senator to bring Americans back around to the human rights traditions we’ve been so proud of historically.

I understand that you’re in favor of the ICC and of restoring habeus corpus as an inalienable right, but it seems like a huge task to shift public debate on these matters, and I’d like to know what you’ll do to raise these issues and change minds over the next year or two.

Senator Dodd- thank you for this very important summation: “Torture doesn’t work. It is morally offensive. It yields bad information. Thirdly, it places our armed forces at risk of being subjected to torture.” It needs to be repeated, over and over.

Senator Dodd –

Thanks for joining us today. As a senator and presidential candidate, we understand that your time is limited so I appreciate you taking the time out to talk with us today.

1970cs–

Tomorrow the Senate Foreign Relations committee will vote on a non-binding resolution expressing Senators’ opinions
on the Iraq escalation.

This is not the time for senators to simply declare our individual opposition; this is the time and it is our obligation to take meaningful action to stop it.

That is why I be offering legislation tomorrow requiring a new authorization before any more of our brave men and women can be sent to police a civil war in Iraq so that we can focus on beginning a phased redeployment within and out of Iraq.

Welcome to FDL Senator Dodd,

I’m curious if there is any update on the Dubai Ports World controversy?

It seems as though this issue has gone stealth.

Thanks for you time.

-Monk

Chris Dodd @ 23

1970cs–

Tomorrow the Senate Foreign Relations committee will vote on a non-binding resolution expressing Senators’ opinions
on the Iraq escalation.

This is not the time for senators to simply declare our individual opposition; this is the time and it is our obligation to take meaningful action to stop it.

That is why I be offering legislation tomorrow requiring a new authorization before any more of our brave men and women can be sent to police a civil war in Iraq so that we can focus on beginning a phased redeployment within and out of Iraq.

I saw you had Senators Kennedy and Boxer as co-sponsors. Are there any other senators you have lined up to back this REAL response to Bush’s insane aggression?

“new authorization” - Thank you!

And you are right about the need for unified effort to stop this madness!

Senator Dodd,
With additional troops already over in Iraq, what can the Congress really do to halt the escalation? I realize that no one in the Congress wants to be caught holding the hot potato of “war management”, since that is Bush’s job, but if the appropriations aren’t forthcoming for additional troops, won’t Bush truly have to manage the war differently?

Senator, between the new bankruptcy laws, predatory lending, and the large number of adjustable-rate mortgages, a lot of families are in peril, and you might have a unique platform on the banking committee to promote an alternative vision for American financial security. Will this be a priority for you, and what should be expect in the 110th congress on this front?

I’ll certainly call my Senators and ask them to support (Durbin and Obama)

There has been a lack of transparency with this administration, to say the least.

Investigations seem our only hope to find out vital information this adminstration should be sharing with the american people.

Can you give us any hint as to possible investigations upcoming by the new Democratic senate?

I am very proud of my effort to pass the family medical leave act. Since President Clinton signed it into law in 1993, over 50 million Americans have taken advantage of that law’s provisions.

But we need to go further. We need paid leave for parents of newborns. Too many people can’t afford to take unpaid leave in such situations. Therefore I am exploring paid leave for parents of newborns, at the very least. We need an FMLA for the 21st century.

Thank you, Senator Dodd, for returning our nation’s values.

I was born in 1960: my father volunteered for pilot training in WWII.

I grew up proud that our nation had defeated two fascist empires.

I grew up hearing that we would blow up the world rather than surrender our values to the Soviet empire, with their secret police, torture, and prison camps.

Now - as an American citizen - I live in the empire with torture, prison camps, and the “disappeared” in our sordid gulags.

Thank you, Senator Dodd, for starting America on a path away from the sickness and depravity unleashed upon our nation by Bush, Cheney, and their willing servants on both sides of the aisle.

Thanks for starting us on the road to recovery.

It seems apparent that the administration is preparing to attack Iran, or to facilitate Israel attacking Iran. In some ways it is more of a threat to our security than the Iraq war. What can or will the Congress do to stop it?

Welcome, Senator Dodd.

I noticed you posted a brief comment on your Senate website deploring the initial military commission rules. I fully support your efforts to get the administration and the military to comply with the rule of law in those matters.

The military is also guilty of gross abuse of a US citizen held in their custody - Jose Padilla.

Per a recent NPR story:

Indeed, there are even some within the government who think it might be best if Padilla were declared incompetent and sent to a psychiatric prison facility. As one high-ranking official put it, “the objective of the government always has been to incapacitate this person.”

I suggest that someone contact Nina Totenberg, find out who that “high-ranking official” was, and invite them up for a chat, under oath, to find out why the US Government is employing its military to function like a Soviet police state and mentally destroy people it takes into custody.

That, on top of the overarching Constitutional issues….

Welcome, Senator Dodd. I was wondering what other Senators, Democrat or Republican, have been willing to work with you regarding your bill? Leahy? Spector? More importantly, who is working against you in your efforts? Where does McCain stand on this today?

No question here at the moment, Senator. I just want to say that you do good work. Please keep it up.

I’m pleased to see your inclusion of rolling back the elimination of habeas corpus. It’s ironic that the nation that is giving the former Chief of Staff to the Vice President as open and fair a trial as one could imagine is the same nation that engages in extraordinary rendition and declines to give alleged terrorists a day in court.

Two sets of rules - one for the powerful and well-connected, another for the weak and marginal - is no way to run a country.

Howie–

We are talking to all the members of the committee and we urge you to help in that effort by contacting your members and urging their support for my legislation.

Senator Dodd, As chair of the banking committee, do you think there have been too many bank mergers? Have too few bank become too large? Thanks

A new authorization? Good for you. Thanks Senator Dodd!

I saw you on one of the Florida Spanish-language stations and I was very impressed with your Spanish fluency.

Senator Dodd,
As constituents of yours in Connecticut and with a son serving in Iraq, my husband and I want you to know that we entirely object to our military involvement there. While preventing an escalation is a worthy cause, I believe there is substantial support across the country to end our military activity completely. We hope you will take a position of leadership toward this objective.
Thank you for your stands on habeas corpus and on torture. We appreciate having at least one senator who represents the interests of the majority of citizens of Connecticut.
Susan

Hello and thank you so much for addressing the torture issue and demanding reauthorization.

The torture issue is one that simply tears me up on a gut level. The idea that it’s being accomplished anywhere in our name is horrifying.

Anything I can do to help get this bill passed will be done.

Bless you sir.

The vote on the MCA that rolled back years of accumulated effort to lead the world and was one of my the saddest days in the Senate.

Rolling back habeus corpus, letting the president define torture, and stepping back from the Geneva convention was wrong

I’m so glad to hear you say that, Senator. Thank you.

Senator Dodd, your willingness to speak out against torture — oh, God, have we come to the point of having this conversation in America? — makes you a hero in my heart.

I am very sorry for you that you have Joe Lieberman as a “fellow” Senator from your state. It must be awkward, but I wouldn’t blame you if you secretly felt nothing but disgust and loathing for that WATB little creep. Pardon my French.

Now, about you: I am one of the people who really in my heart of hearts wants Al Gore for president in 2008, and after that John Edwards. And yet I always think of you with admiration. I like the way you don’t take crap when you’re on the talk shows.

I really like it that you support Labor. I believe this is the most important issue of our time, the one that informs all others. When Labor is strong, the middle class is strong. When the middle class is strong, the United States tends to avoid psychotic episodes like the one we are in now.

All of our current problems — war profiteering, global climate change, the loss of the world’s respect, the destruction of the true American Way of Life (economic security for all) — are the result of unchecked corporatism and the obliteration of the power of working people.

The candidate who can restore the economic security of working people in this country and who has the BALLS to stand up and say the general welfare of American citizens is more important than corporate welfare will be the next president, I think.

Hello senator Dodd,

I lived in Connecticut from 91-93, and I remember your work for the state.

Taking off from your work on the family medical leave act, I’ve been hearing reports from reproductive rights activists in CT that the Catholic Church is threatening to deny any care at all to rape victims if the “Compassinate care” bill, which mandates that all hospitals provide emergency contraception to rape victims, passes. while i realize you deal more with national issues than state, I was wondering if you’d heard about this and your take on the matter? Further, how do you propose dealing with this potential refusal to provide care?
thanks!
brendan skwire

Why a NONBINDING resolution, Senator Dodd?

Senator,

Do you support the hydrocarbon law for big oil in Iraq?

Welcome Sen. Dodd

I was wondering how you felt about electronic voting machines and their general lack of a paper trail.

The core of Democracy is honest elections.

Sen. Dodd,

I find it shocking that so many Repubs, the party of faux family values, actively worked against the Family Leave Act.

I guess their in thrall to big business…?

Senator, for the last six years, the word “oversight” seems to have been eliminated from the vocabulary of the Legislative Branch as run by the GOP. Of all the areas that cry out for accountability - war profiteering, Katrina cleanup and reconstruction, secret energy policy planning, improper lobbying, torture allegations in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, Presidential signing statements, etc. - where will your energies be directed? On which issues will you be working hardest to hold the Bush Administration accountable?

(And I recognize that due to the division of labor via committee assignments, your focusing on one issue does not mean it is the absolutely most pressing of the bunch!)

Senator, as a Connecticut blogger I’d like to say how much I appreciate you taking the time to answer our questions today. Thank you for your efforts in restoring our Constitutional protections.

Matt @28–

You bet. I am holding hearings this Thursday on credit card abuse and we have plans for hearings on predatory lending, money wiring and payday loan operations.

All of these rip off the more than 10m Americans who lack access to banks, credit unions or thrifts. This will be a priority on the committee.

OK, I have to vote now (check CSPAN-2 in a few minutes). Thanks so much for your warm welcome and your informed questions. I hope to be back soon.

Welcome to the Lake Senator Dodd !

a genuine honor and pleasure to have you join us -

Senator,
I was shaken by the news of an unprecendented attack and killing of 5 US Service people in Karbala on Saturday - the killers drove US vehicles, had US ID’s, and stormed in to a room where the 5 Americans were discussing security plans for an upcoming holiday with their Iraqi counterparts - even I, just a citizen can see this is an op that took time and planning -

without compromising any briefings Senator, can you assure us all that those in Congress are being given accurate, reality based briefings on what the situation really is and just how vulnerable US service people are on a daily basis ?

Senator, last year Russ Feingold suggested that the Senate censure the President for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that this administration appears to be trying to take our current form of government apart piece by piece, is trashing the Constitution, and disregarding and disrespecting the peoples representatives in Congress (Contempt of Congress, in my book.) I thought the least the Senate could do was to support the censure, but they didn’t. What was your position, why, and have you changed your mind?

Don’t forget to wave at us!

Greetings, Senator Dodd. I was wondering if you could tell us your view of President Bush’s so-called “signing statements.” Are these a serious threat to the separation of powers, one that Congress needs to somehow affirmatively address? Should Congress hold oversight hearings to bring officials from various federal agencies before a committee and grill them on the extent to which they may be breaking or ignoring laws because of a Bush signing statement? Or are they in your opinion meaningless?

Chris Dodd @ 52

Matt @28–

You bet. I am holding hearings this Thursday on credit card abuse and we have plans for hearings on predatory lending, money wiring and payday loan operations.

All of these rip off the more than 10m Americans who lack access to banks, credit unions or thrifts. This will be a priority on the committee.

OK, I have to vote now (check CSPAN-2 in a few minutes). Thanks so much for your warm welcome and your informed questions. I hope to be back soon.

Thanks for coming by. I just told Tim Tagaris on your staff that we want you to know that you have an open invitation to join us any time. And we’re here 24/7/365 and our Late Night host is amazing.

Senator.Thank You for making time for people to ask you some questions.My Question is(drum roll)…Did You Vote to Go into Iraq?

Roddy McCorley @ 36

No question here at the moment, Senator. I just want to say that you do good work. Please keep it up.

I’ll second that.

Hello FDL–

Let me echo Senator Dodd in thanking you for your kind welcome. Also, thanks for your understanding about the Senator’s schedule–we’re not in control of when votes are scheduled, and sometimes they come up at the last minute.

I’ll be monitoring this thread, and will pass along your comments to the Senator to read this evening.

Additionally, let me invite you all to ChrisDodd.com, where you and the Senator can continue the conversation over the course of the coming days, weeks and months.

If you submit questions via video (using youtube) to the campaign, Senator Dodd will respond to them from time to time over the course of the campaign.

Best,
Tim Cullen

Tim Cullen,

thanks for your time today, per Howie above, please stop by and join us anytime

Howie Klein -

thank you so very much !

Damn that Harry Reid for scheduling a last minute vote in the middle of our chat! I wonder if he’s working for Edwards or Obama

If you submit questions via video (using youtube) to the campaign, Senator Dodd will respond to them from time to time over the course of the campaign.

Best,
Tim Cullen

This is genius.

Chris Dodd @ 38

Howie–

We are talking to all the members of the committee and we urge you to help in that effort by contacting your members and urging their support for my legislation.

I will certainly contact Sen. Webb about it.

LindaR @
63

If you submit questions via video (using youtube) to the campaign, Senator Dodd will respond to them from time to time over the course of the campaign.

Best,
Tim Cullen

This is genius.

Tim, is the Senator going to respond on YouTube, or on his Web site?

Thank you for forwarding these comments and questions, Tim. Shame about the schedule, though. :)

Come back anytime!

Chris Dodd @
31

I am very proud of my effort to pass the family medical leave act. Since President Clinton signed it into law in 1993, over 50 million Americans have taken advantage of that law’s provisions.

But we need to go further. We need paid leave for parents of newborns. Too many people can’t afford to take unpaid leave in such situations. Therefore I am exploring paid leave for parents of newborns, at the very least. We need an FMLA for the 21st century.

Senator Dodd - I am one of those 50 million Americans. Two years ago I was able to take care of my father while he was dying - because of the FMLA. Thank you for that.

Howie Klein @ 61

Damn that Harry Reid for scheduling a last minute vote in the middle of our chat! I wonder if he’s working for Edwards or Obama

Jealous! Probably just upset he didn’t get an invitation, Howie.

neurophius @65–

When the Senator responds, it will be on both our YouTube channel and on our website (most likely on the front page and inside the blog).

Senator. Would you care to comment on this from MSNBC?

WASHINGTON - Top White House officials tried to blame vice presidential aide “Scooter” Libby for the 2003 leak of a CIA operative’s identity to protect President Bush’s political strategist, Karl Rove, Libby’s defense attorney said Tuesday as his perjury trial began and the first witness took the stand.

Audrey @ 68

Howie Klein @ 61

Damn that Harry Reid for scheduling a last minute vote in the middle of our chat! I wonder if he’s working for Edwards or Obama

Jealous! Probably just upset he didn’t get an invitation, Howie.

If he gets over that symbolic, nonbinding bullshit, he’ll get an invitation too!

Howie Klein @ 61

Damn that Harry Reid for scheduling a last minute vote in the middle of our chat! I wonder if he’s working for Edwards or Obama

There’s always the perennial “I Blame Clinton” to fall back on, if it’s not Edwards or Obama.

;)

But Howie, symbolic non-binding bullshit is America’s favorite kind of bullshit!

Senator Dodd,
I am so glad to see so many well qualified democrats jumping in the race. Like in 2004, we had many people running who would have undoubtedly done a much better job running the country than GWB. What will you do to see that our votes are backed up with a paper trail, and that criminals are not allowed in any position when it comes to our voting process? As it stands now, we have lost our democracy, and I want to know what you plan to do to ensure that we never again have such idiots/criminals take over our government again. Will you vote to impeach? Thankyou~ Dana B. Florida

Tim Cullen @ 68

neurophius @65–

When the Senator responds, it will be on both our YouTube channel and on our website (most likely on the front page and inside the blog).

Bookmarked! Thanks. :)

Dodd on Hardball next

Howie Klein @ 57

I just told Tim Tagaris on your staff that we want you to know that you have an open invitation to join us any time. And we’re here 24/7/365 and our Late Night host is amazing.

Howie - is Tim working for Senator Dodd now?

cleter @ 73

But Howie, symbolic non-binding bullshit is America’s favorite kind of bullshit!

The Old Line Democrats are offering symbolism and then we have Warner, Coleman, Collins, Nelson and a whole gaggle of wingnuts offering abstraction! Dodd, Kennedy, Murtha, Woolsey have it right– Congress has to JUST SAY NO TO BUSH.

Does Chris Matthews tape Hardball ahead of show time, anyone? (Sen. Dodd now being interviewed)

Howie Klein @ 70

If he gets over that symbolic, nonbinding bullshit, he’ll get an invitation too!

Heh! I bet we’d even promise to be nice if he did that! (Heck, I’d bake him a fruitcake.) What a refreshing difference that would make.

Welcome Senator (and Tim Cullen). Long time Stamford resident here (and volunteer at stamford hq).

Thanks Howie for pulling this together.

neurophius @ 79

Does Chris Matthews tape Hardball ahead of show time, anyone? (Sen. Dodd now being interviewed)

it says it’s live

Okay, what’s the deal? I’m watching Senator Dodd on Hardball right now!

selise @ 77

Howie Klein @ 57

I just told Tim Tagaris on your staff that we want you to know that you have an open invitation to join us any time. And we’re here 24/7/365 and our Late Night host is amazing.

Howie - is Tim working for Senator Dodd now?

Yes, Tim Tagaris is on Senator Dodd’s campaign staff. He made sure the decision makers around the senator knew that FDL would be a good environment for the senator. I wish Edwards had someone like Tim on his staff!!

Ann in AZ @ 83

Okay, what’s the deal? I’m watching Senator Dodd on Hardball right now!

It’s a multimedia experience.

Or have we been punked?

As one of Senator Dodd’s constituents, I can attest that the Senator responds to questions with thought out and detailed answers, not canned responses.

selise @ 77

Howie Klein @ 57

I just told Tim Tagaris on your staff that we want you to know that you have an open invitation to join us any time. And we’re here 24/7/365 and our Late Night host is amazing.

Howie - is Tim working for Senator Dodd now?

Curious also. Great grab for the Senator if true.

Tim; please convey my thanks to Senator Dodd along with a couple of questions. What is the Senator’s position on the current approach to the situation in Afghanistan? How about the continued failure to deal with Pakistan’s ongoing support of the Taliban?
Thanks from a former constituent.

Sen. Dodd making sense on alternative fuels and global warming on MSNBC

Ann in AZ @
86

Or have we been punked?

nah, he was here. he had to leave for a vote: see here

Howie Klein @ 84

Yes, Tim Tagaris is on Senator Dodd’s campaign staff. He made sure the decision makers around the senator knew that FDL would be a good environment for the senator. I wish Edwards had someone like Tim on his staff!!

that’s great! - great for Tim, for the Senator and for us. yeah!

Howie Klein @ 84

selise @ 77

Howie Klein @ 57

Howie - is Tim working for Senator Dodd now?

Yes, Tim Tagaris is on Senator Dodd’s campaign staff. He made sure the decision makers around the senator knew that FDL would be a good environment for the senator. I wish Edwards had someone like Tim on his staff!!

Wow. Honestly, I have had really mixed feelings about volunteering for Senator Dodd following the Lamont campaign. Knowing Tim is on board is good enough for me, I really like/respect him.

Hi Senator Dodd. What a surprise. My son said to say hello.

sorry to go off topic senator, but this is really important;

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2....._0123.html

mah man feingold is exploring congresses options to end war

feingold is teh fuhriggin man

Chris Dodd @
52

Matt @28–

.

OK, I have to vote now (check CSPAN-2 in a few minutes). Thanks so much for your warm welcome and your informed questions. I hope to be back soon.

He went to vote.

I wonder where Joe Lie will be sitting tonite.

What is being done to provide direct help to New Orleans & the rest of Louisiana? They needed help over a year ago. The insurance companies are screwing the people left & right, the city’s infrastructure needs massive rebuilding, crime is rampant, and people are desperate. The city is dying from neglect, and the people of New Orleans truly thought that the new Congress would act right away to help them. But none has come. Again, and New Orleans wants to know, what is being done to provide direct help to New Orleans & its people?

You looked very Presidential, and you make sense. What a nice change of pace. :)
PS: Whoever tagged Chris Mathews with the name “Tweety” sure hit that nail on the head! LOL

urban pirate @ 97

I wonder where Joe Lie will be sitting tonite.

On Cheney’s lap

urban pirate @ 97

I wonder where Joe Lie will be sitting tonite.

Let’s all hold hands and light candles and incense and peppermint and PRAY he jumps up and gives Bush a big wet one when he marches down the aisle again.

Senator Dodd, it’s a pleasure to have you here.

My question deals with what Attorney General Gonzalez said before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week:

“…the Constitution doesn’t say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn’t say that. It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.”

First of all, I assume by your outspoken criticism of the MCA passed last year that you’re as outraged at that statement as I am. What was your reaction upon hearing it and have any of your colleagues spoken to you about it?

I asked Tim about the “Hardball” appearance and here’s the answer. Rings true to me:

he’s got a crazily busy schedule. they tape in D.C. … he went from FDL to vote, to hardball. bang bang bang.

Howie Klein @
101

urban pirate @ 97

I wonder where Joe Lie will be sitting tonite.

Let’s all hold hands and light candles and incense and peppermint and PRAY he jumps up and gives Bush a big wet one when he marches down the aisle again.

did you all see the General’s advice to Lieberman on this matter?

Howie Klein @ 103

I asked Tim about the “Hardball” appearance and here’s the answer. Rings true to me:

he’s got a crazily busy schedule. they tape in D.C. … he went from FDL to vote, to hardball. bang bang bang.

Gets around quick!

Howie Klein @ 101

Let’s all hold hands and light candles and incense and peppermint and PRAY he jumps up and gives Bush a big wet one when he marches down the aisle again.

Nah, they’re past the kissing part. If Bush gets within two feet of him, Joe will leap out and dry-hump Bush’s leg.

hey firedogs i just got home in time for sen dodd - but hes on hardball- is he still in the lake?

Howie Klein @ 102

I asked Tim about the “Hardball” appearance and here’s the answer. Rings true to me:

he’s got a crazily busy schedule. they tape in D.C. … he went from FDL to vote, to hardball. bang bang bang.

I understand about the crazy schedule, but I took his comments @ 51 to be “I’m ducking out to vote, but I’ll come back as soon as I’ve done that.”

If he had to go do Hardball, I wish he had said as much. On a day like this, things change fast and I would understand. As it is, it feels like a drive by to me.

montag @ 106

Nah, they’re past the kissing part. If Bush gets within two feet of him, Joe will leap out and dry-hump Bush’s leg.

I wonder if that would be worthy of a recall vote.

Howie Klein @ 101

urban pirate @ 97

I wonder where Joe Lie will be sitting tonite.

Let’s all hold hands and light candles and incense and peppermint and PRAY he jumps up and gives Bush a big wet one when he marches down the aisle again.

I’m still shell shocked that Joe Lie was able to hoodwink so many CT voters. I wonder how the vote would come down if it was held today.

I wonder if the CT establishment that supported him behind the scenes regret that. The OpEd’s have been somewhat critical from what I’ve seen.

The whole thing has made me so cynical. Joe reverted to his “escalation is good” routine the day after the election, just like we all said.

Tim Cullen, can you shed any light on that if you’re still here? As you know, this community sank our heart and soul into that campaign and feel very snubbed.

Tim, do you know whether Sen. Dodd was planning to come back on FDL after Hardball?

I just went to the Dodd’s blog and signed up for his newsletter. Maybe he’ll let us know when the answers are up…but it’ll be good to keep track of the campaign in any event.