Monday Roundup and Open Thread

Your Lieberal Media at work (0.00 / 0)

SEN. DODD:  Well, it's-those are the allegations out there.  And again, point out to you, not all companies followed that request.  They said, "Look, give us a court order." That's a basic requirement in these kind of things.

MR. RUSSERT:  There've been suggestions that you exploited this issue politically for your presidential run, and, and they point to this.  Here's your Web site.  "Restore the Constitution.  We did it!  You helped us meet our $100,000 goal in 36 hours.  Let's keep it going." You used it as a fund-raising tool.

SEN. DODD:  Well, no, we get people, people stepped up to the plate through the Internet and contributed and were helpful in the campaign.

MR. RUSSERT:  But tied specifically to your criticism of that legislation.

SEN. DODD:  Well, the, the point is here, look, Tim, this is a serious issue here that requires a serious response, and I believe, going back, the military commission's active a year ago.  I think the only person speaking out as strongly as I have against these actions here, this consistent erosion here that worry me very, very much about what's happening to our Constitution.  But I've been asked the question, what's the first thing I would do on January 20th, 2009, the consistent answer I've given is restore the Constitution.  I'm very worried about where we're headed with all of this.

Or this leading questioning:

MR. RUSSERT:  But you voted for the war, you voted for funding for the war. You were against timetables for withdrawal of troops.  Then you became a presidential candidate, and suddenly it was about oil and you were against the funding and you were for timetables.

SEN. DODD:  No, Tim, that's...

MR. RUSSERT:  Is that political expediency?

SEN. DODD:  No, no, no, let's go back, as I've said earlier to you, in September of '04, I said I wish we had the vote back, it was a mistake, it was wrong.

MR. RUSSERT:  But you kept voting for the funding.

SEN. DODD:  Well, did vote for funding along the way because the argument was we were trying to get this-get a decent conclusion to this here.  And then a year ago when I was there and came back, drew the conclusion, as many others have along the way here, that this is just not working here.  And my view was, at that point and is today, that Congress has one responsibility.  If the policy has failed and it's not working, that we ought to terminate the funding for it here.  Clearly the administration doesn't want to do that, not likely to do it, so it's up to the Congress to achieve that result.

MR. RUSSERT:  And no
political expediency?

Jeez Timmy, what are you implying here?

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by: Scarce @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 15:08:27 PM UTC

"they" and "some people" (0.00 / 0)

Russert: "There've been suggestions that you exploited this issue."

Suggestions by whom, Tim?

It seems that when presenting opposing arguments to Republicans, the line is:
"Liberal/left-wing blogs criticize you for ..."

But when Democrats are under fire by MSM, it's more like this: "some people say ...," or "it's been suggested..." etc., and not this: "right wing bloggers/your political opponents say .."

I wonder why that is. Must be the liberal media at work again.

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by: CaptCT @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 15:54:51 PM UTC

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Ned Lamont at MLN (0.00 / 0)

Ned has endorsed a half dozen candidates and will be coming to liveblog about it at MLN tomorrow!

Click here to check out the candidates, and be sure to forward the page to a friend:

http://www.nedlamont.com/ct2007

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by: spazeboy @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 15:47:05 PM UTC

observations (0.00 / 0)

Russert being a jerk:
-- Dodd's stance on the FISA hold ... Russert should have been congratulating Dodd on that, not raking him over the coals for promoting it.
-- Standings in the polls ... somewhat irrelevant, and Russert just rubs it in.
-- changing stance on Iraq ... Dodd should have just said: Once it became clear that the Iraq war was a disaster, should I have continued to bury my head in the sand like Republicans have? You can criticize Dodd for poor judgement in the past, but not for changing his position.
-- soldiers dying in vain?
Please, Tim. Who gives you these questions? The answer is this: The soldiers went into Iraq to eliminate what we thought was an imminent threat. That mission was successful, and now it's over. Yet the troops are still there and more soldiers are dying -- the goal being to stabilize Iraq. But the only way to create stability there is by bringing the troops home and using effective diplomacy. I don't want any more of these soldiers killed, do you?

Russert makes a legitimate point: regarding taxes on hedge fund managers and Dodd's campaign contributions. However, every candidate gets their money from someplace. I hope Russert goes over campaign contributions from all the candidates during his interviews with them.

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by: CaptCT @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 18:06:57 PM UTC

Tom Tomorrow takes on Guilford HS (0.00 / 0)

Over at huffingtonpost, takes on the New Haven register's sensationalistic coverage of the Guilford high school comic book "controversy". Short version:  teacher assigns a graphic novel which discusses, but does not depict, sex acts and murder, parents flip out, Register runs a story depicting the graphic novel as "borderline pornography", teacher resigns under pressure from the board... then we find out the graphic novel isn't that graphic, and no charges are filed, and the Register eventually publishes an editorial chastising the school district. Tom's take:

Finally, yesterday, almost a month after their initial sensationalistic coverage of this shameful episode, the New Haven Register featured an editorial which gently chided the Guilford school district -- which, while commendable, probably would have mattered a lot more oh, say, a month ago, when the Register's front page was portraying the teacher as a possible pedophile.

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." - Warren Buffet

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by: joesaho @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 20:16:20 PM UTC

oops... here's the link (0.00 / 0)

Tom Tomorrow write-up

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." - Warren Buffet

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by: joesaho @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 20:17:38 PM UTC

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I have been over at www.ctlocalpolitics.net (0.00 / 0)

where they are attacking this site as run basically by moonbats. You should join in the fun.

impeachment today, treason trials tonight, hanging tomorrow

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by: Irish Patti @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 20:20:01 PM UTC

sorry, that place is filled with trolls.. (0.00 / 0)

they're ankle deep over there.  It's not worth the effort.

.Adding Another Dimension of Vituperation Toxicity to Blogging since 1999!.

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by: nolopro @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 21:31:07 PM UTC

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They are Calling Me Out Personally for the "Spousal Blogging" (0.00 / 0)

I did decide to respond.

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by: Jon Kantrowitz @ Mon Oct 29, 2007 at 21:37:43 PM UTC

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