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A Challenger for Dodd

Sunday, May 17, 2009

It’s hard to decide what to make of this: Merrick posted another video, which he’s since taken down. The old video was here. I’m not sure the two were much different. His website is here. Oddly enough, we have at least two things in common. We both grew up in Hartford with single Moms (at […]

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Dodd speaks on torture

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Okay, I give up. I normally spend my lunch time at work cruising the net, and often send links home that I think it would be good to write about. Often, unfortunately, I forget to send them. I just spent about an hour searching for a story I read about Obama’s tax haven proposal. I […]

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Contrasts

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

My wife has been urging me to post this video, which she saw on My Left Nutmeg. Here’s SE Connecticut’s own (can we disown him somehow?) Rob Simmons, gladly joining Sean Hannity in the muck, in contrast to Sam Caliguri, who refuses to wallow. This type of behavior is no surprise to those of us […]

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Scapegoating Dodd, take 2

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Factcheck.org has weighed in on Dodd’s responsibility, or lack thereof, for the legislative language that allowed those bonuses (or, more accurately, did not stop them). Some Republicans are blaming Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut for millions in bonus payments paid by taxpayer-owned American International Group. … As it was passed in the Senate, the […]

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Scapegoating Dodd

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

I just got finished watching Olbermann’s show, in which law professor Jonathan Turley casually endorsed the canard that Chris Dodd is responsible for preserving AIG’s ability to pay the much and rightly maligned bonuses. We can expect Simmons to jump on this bandwagon. It’s a line also being pushed by the Treasury Department, which is […]

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Simmons makes it official

Monday, March 16, 2009

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Rob Simmons says his family was unanimous in support of the decision he made weeks ago: he will run against Dodd for the U.S. Senate. Simmons will run as a populist. If elected, he will follow his pattern as a Congressman, and be a loyal foot soldier for […]

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Simmons to take on Dodd?

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Rob Simmons is talking himself up as a challenger to Chris Dodd. Given the dismal state of the Republican Party in Connecticut he’s a logical choice. The idea that he could run as an ecomonic populist, which is the kind of stuff he’s spouting, strikes anyone with knowledge as absurd, but just remember, Joe Lieberman […]

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