The people of Connecticut and America hate Chris Dodd so much, for his twin Scandals of (a) locking into a fixed mortgage rate at .25% lower than the average and (b) taking it upon himself to insert into the stimulus package strict executive compensation rules, which the White House ordered him to dilute for the final bill, which opened the window for the AIG bonus scandal, for which the White House cleverly let Dodd take the entire blame. Poor Chris Dodd. He chose to retire yesterday rather than lose in November, which sucks for Republicans, because now whatever schmuck the Democrats are running up there in Connecticut is out-polling all potential Republican challengers by 30 to 40 percentage points. “Richard Blumenthal,” they call him. Supposedly he is the most awesome politician ever and everyone in Connecticut is completely gay for him. Hooray! [Washington Independent]
Everyone Loves Chris Dodd’s Replacement Candidate, This ‘Blumenthal’ Character
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The only way Blumenthal loses is to say macaca.
Here’s a picture of him entertaining children with a naked hand puppet. Are you sure he’s not a Republican?
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That’s Great! except he was planning on running against Vinegar Joe instead … ughhh
Well we can certainly trust the sound and sober judgment of voters who elected Joe Lieberman.
[re=490126]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Careful. I said that to one of them and nearly lost an arm.
alt alt-text: Marty McFly’s dad seeks Dodd’s seat.
Jesus Christ, who wants Crispin Glover for a senator?
Ok, with the exception of Dodd, Lincoln and, um, Lieberman (oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) no Dems are allowed to retire from the Senate after this.
And, if the military can criminalize pregnancies, then the Dem leadership ought to be able to forbid deaths within its caucus. Are you listening, Robert Byrd?
Is anyone here from Connecticut? What makes this dude so popular, I’ve never heard of him before today
The staph over at the WSJ are wetting their collective pants over this: Democrats Take Hit as Dodd Leaves And how is Dodd not running a sad bad for the Ds? The WS Urinal must know all the details about the hand puppet!
Black people love ‘menthals.
[re=490144]Potater[/re]: Blue Menthols?
JESUS CHRIST, IT’S GONNA EAT ME!
[re=490140]HedonismBot[/re]: Supposedly the Senate Dems and the WV Dem Gov have some sort of rock-solid Plan B, though they dare not say it or jinx everything.
Are dems just so cocky they don’t even send in scripts for the presss to read anymore? All u hear about is the 5 dems quitting..not the 6 repubs. My god dems can pick up both fla and ohio…
Is he carved out of an apple?
He’s like the melty-faced Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Only more meltier.
[re=490141]tacodaemon[/re]: As a true, life-long Connecticut resident, I will answer your question. We love Dick Blumenthal because he SUES THE LIVING BEJEESUS FUCK out of just about every corporation ever. (In fact, he’s sued so many corporations that he has been named in several lawsuits himself.) Here are some of my favorite suits:
- Way back when, Dick and Gov. John Rowland (who later went to jail) sued THE ENTIRE FUCKING MIDWEST for polluting our crisp, clean Connecticut air.
- He did some shit about the Big East, but I don’t care about that because basketball is stupid.
- He forced MySpace to turn over the names of all of its registered Republicans — I mean “sex offenders” — a few years ago. This was good for the world because, according to the Internet, they dug up over 5,000 names! Of sex offenders! On MySpace! Doesn’t that surprise you?
- He filed a lawsuit because of some stupid storm drain thing on I-84. This meant that the construction, which was due to take 1,000 years, only took 823 years.
He’s a douchebag when it comes to gay marriage (thinks that Connecticut law doesn’t allow it) and the Pequots (thinks that they shouldn’t be recognized), but his douchebagginess is far outweighed by the fact that his name is Dick, he fights for “the working folk,” and he’s not Joe Lieberman.
PALIN/BLUMENTHAL ’12!!!!1!!1!!!!1
[re=490165]loquaciousmusic[/re]: So essentially he is Connecticut’s Eliot Spitzer, much like Andrew Cuomo is New York’s new Eliot Spitzer?
5 whore diamonds for everyone!
Six Republican senators are resigning, to two Democratic Senators. The Republicans loose to a Teabagger party on a generic ballot. Clearly, this is the end of the Democratic Party.
[re=490166]grendel[/re]: I did just read in the Hartford Courant that he’s hired Ashley Alexandra Dupree as his campaign manager.
except he was planning on running against Vinegar Joe instead
Failgunner Joe isn’t going to run again in 2012 anyway.
[re=490134]Gopherit[/re]: you’re right. Don’t ask him if his jacket is made of pleather, if you care about progress and hope.
[re=490180]El Pinche[/re]: Hahaha..wrong wierdo celeb (I was thinking Vincent Gallo).
[re=490167]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Sounds like good news for McCain at the very least.
The question is, does he like hiking with 6 inches at 17 degrees?
Can “rarefied” be used in the description of a Jew? My family roots tell me no, but his Connecticut and his hairstyle seem to outweigh.
[re=490141]tacodaemon[/re]: Some time ago, when Southern New England Telephone still existed, I got teh Interwebs through them, and at the time, it was a big deal to pay one price for unlimited Internet access, and that was in my contract with them. Then their workers went on strike, and they sent out an e-mail saying due to the strike, they needed more money so they were gonna charge extra after a certain number of hours online a month.
I called up Dick’s office and told ‘em. They said, “Oh really?” I asked if SNET could change the contract like that and they said, “Nope. Forward the letter to us.”
Within a week I got another e-mail from SNET saying, “Um….we’re not gonna charge you extra after all.”
Blumenthal really does kick ass on behalf of consumers. Rightwing Republicans and corporations fucking hate him, which will just make it all the sweeter when he gets elected.
Dick Bluthemall?
Well… who sez CT senators have to be photogenic?
Well, it was probably time for Dodd to go. I mean, heading out to Arlington on Christmas Eve to cry at Edward M. Kennedy’s grave (probably with a bottle of scotch in his hand) probably doesn’t bode well for the future of the people of CT. And, if he’s going to be replaced by a guy who knows better than to accept the “Countrywide Discount” meaning it will continue to be miserable in the minority of the Senate (even if the D’s drop below 60).
[re=490234]yargisbargis[/re]: When your competition is Joe Lieberman, a Matthew-Modine-during-a-colonoscopy smile isn’t so bad.
Of course, all this does is set up the inevitable Dodd vs. Lieberman throwdown in 2012.
You read it here first!
They still make “Brill -cream?”
He’s very un-Dood-like
When I worked in local news here in The Constitution State, we could call up Dick for a soundbite, even after work hours, and he’d meet us wherever the camera was–with his plastered down hair and his perpetual tan. (A real tan – not Boehner-creme.)
He’s been urged to run for gov or something else before, but apparently bided his time for another sure-thing election win.
He does generally sue the right people… although every time heating oil prices jumped up in the middle of winter, he would announce an investigation into price-gouging, and 2 weeks later it would thaw and we’d never hear any more about it. He did that about six times.
Looks like he’s given up tanning for just a fine patina of cancer cells.
The Dodd abides.
[re=490347]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: *golf clap*
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