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Title: Biden: Dodd is 'getting the living hell beat out of him'
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CNN
URL Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co ... e-living-hell-beat-out-of-him/
Published: Dec 11, 2009
Author: Paul Steinhauser
Post Date: 2009-12-11 20:28:49 by borntoweardiamonds
Keywords: None
Views: 1029
Comments: 11
Joe Biden praised Sen. Chris Dodd Friday, but conceded his good friend - one of the Senate's most vulnerable Democrats - is "getting the living hell beat of him." The vice president made his comments at a fundraiser for Dodd Friday in Hartford, Connecticut. Dodd had been scheduled to accompany Biden at the fundraiser and at event earlier in the day to announce nearly $4 million in federal stimulus funding to replace an aging fire station in East Hartford, but stayed in the nation's capital to work on health care reform legislation and other Senate business. The five-term senator, who's up for re-election next year and fighting for his political life, was replaced by wife Jackie Clegg Dodd. The vice president heaped compliments on his fellow Democrat, calling him "the single most gifted legislator in Congress, now that Teddy Kennedy's gone." Biden spoke of Dodd's dual roles for much of this year leading both the Senate Banking and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees at a time when financial reform and health care reform are among the most pressing matters facing Congress. "Chris Dodd is the first United States senator that has simultaneously chaired two major committees in a moment of genuine national crisis," Biden said. "And had he got either of those jobs wrong, the consequences for America would be dire.... "Chris is getting the living hell beat out of him, the living bejesus beat out of him," said Biden. "Why? Because he's being a leader. This is going to be a hell of a race and it's an uphill race, but Chris Dodd will prevail." In a sign of Dodd's sinking political fortunes, the Cook Political Report this week moved his race from "toss up" to "lean Republican." Dodd saw his approval ratings plunge late last year and early this year, following last year's Wall Street and banking industry financial meltdown, Dodd's involvement in the AIG bonus controversy, and questions about mortgages he obtained from a VIP program. Dodd's poll numbers inched up during the spring and summer after bottoming out earlier this year. But his approval rating slipped back again in a Quinnipiac University survey released last month. The poll also indicated that by 53 percent to 39 percent, Connecticut voters don't think Dodd deserves to be re-elected next year. According to the survey, Dodd is trailing his two potential Republican challengers in hypothetical 2010 general election matchups.
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#1. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
"Leader"?? Of what?? Lemmings off a cliff? Stick a fork in Dodd's greedy fat thieving azz.
I couldn't be happier!
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
Kewl! Is it on "pay for view"?
Esse Quam Videri.
I like Chris and met him years ago at his Dad's place in Old Lyme. I got to know former Senator Tom Dodd as a kid, and the late former senator had known my Dad Daniel McCarthy who had been a Navel Aviator in WW II and died of a heart attack in 1960 while he was working as a commercial pilot for Wyatt Oil of New Haven, Ct. I support Chris' re-election. He is a good man and a very good senator. The only decent one of the two in my old state of Connecticut.
Oliver Wolcott Jr is my wife's great,great,great grandfather.
----------------------------------------------------------- Interesting to hear. Tome Dodd had played a key role in the Nuremberg War Crime trials of German Nazis. I got to hear about this tribunal from an original player as a youth going to private school in Madison, Ct. He helped mold my political world view. I actually owe allot to Tom Dodd. I really enjoyed knowing him.
Where's Tiger's wife? Does she have an alibi? ;-)
Happy Birthday Jesus! Merry Christmas everyone!
Giant let down, I misread it at first as "gotten the living hell beat of him.", I was jumping up and down in exited happiness, then I realized that what it really said was "getting the living hell beat of him." Now I will go read the rest of the story but with much, much less joy.
Really? "Decent"? Chris Dodd?? He's damn liar and corrupt bastard. Did you admire his deception as a major player in the Great American Mortgage Rip-Off that stole hundreds of billions from hard-working American taxpayers? Or his quid pro quo deal with Countrywide? Or his style along with his bud Teddy in sexually harassing waitresses?
Dodd ought to be trailing Satan in a hypothetical match-up.
Liberals always are defensive of their scum.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
"Chris is getting the living hell beat out of him, the living bejesus beat out of him," said Biden. "Why? Because he's being a leader.
#2. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
Dodd is 'getting the living hell beat out of him'
#3. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
"Chris is getting the living hell beat out of him, the living bejesus beat out of him," said Biden.
#4. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
#6. To: WhiteSands (#5)
#7. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
Biden: Dodd is 'getting the living hell beat out of him'
#8. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
Biden praised Sen. Chris Dodd Friday, but conceded his good friend - one of the Senate's most vulnerable Democrats - is "getting the living hell beat of him."
#9. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
I support Chris' re-election. He is a good man and a very good senator. The only decent one of the two in my old state of Connecticut.
#10. To: borntoweardiamonds (#0)
According to the survey, Dodd is trailing his two potential Republican challengers in hypothetical 2010 general election matchups.
#11. To: Liberator, Ferret Mike (#9)
Did you admire his deception as a major player in the Great American Mortgage Rip-Off that stole hundreds of billions from hard-working American taxpayers?
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