How Desparate is Dodd?

by: Jon Kantrowitz

Thu May 28, 2009 at 09:31:20 AM EDT

Today, Dodd--five-term senator, established Washington powerbroker..-has been reduced to shoring up his liberal bona fides by railing against credit card companies on a blog called My Left Nutmeg (motto: "Where Connecticut Dems Scratch That Progressive Itch.")

Oh, the horror!

Update:
Matt Browner Hamlin responds to this nonsense eloquently.

The article goes on to describe at length the conservative record of his father, Senator Tom Dodd, and Chris' efforts to create a different kind of record:

Upon entering the Senate, Dodd set his own course as a legislator, staking out positions antithetical to his father's record as he firmly aligned himself with the progressive wing of the party. As early as 1983, the right-wing publication Human Events called his political career an "odyssey from liberalism to far left." Whereas his father had been a staunch anti-communist, Dodd broke from the center of the party by opposing aid to the Contras as a "deal with the devil." On the domestic front, he made his reputation as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal by authoring the Family and Medical Leave Act and engaging in a decades-long push for credit-card and bankruptcy reform.