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Abandon ship! Party is sinking
You know the ship is in serious trouble when even the rats start jumping into the frothy abyss rather than risk sticking it out on the cracking boat.Sen. Chris Dodd's announcement yesterday that he would abandon his hopeless bid for re-election is only the latest in an alarming and growing body of evidence that President Obama and Democrats in Congress have blown through more political good will in one year than most parties do in a decade. With elections still 10 months off, 13 incumbent congressional Democrats have decided to give up rather than face the certain wrath of voters. These are the kinds of defections a party suffers when it is toiling away in the forgotten minority, not when they hold a stranglehold in the House and a supermajority in the Senate. And not when they are guaranteed that all of their legislation will be blindly signed by their fellow Democrat in the White House. Even more astonishing is that Connecticut's Dodd is the second powerful committee chairman this week, along with North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, to surrender his seat despite holding pivotal control over some of the most far-reaching legislation ever drafted by Congress. Things are so bad that one Alabama member of Congress decided last month that life in the powerful majority with all its perks simply wasn't worth it anymore if it meant he had to be a Democrat. So, in one of the strangest political defections of recent history, he joined the powerless minority. Perhaps the biggest lie of Dodd's long political career came yesterday when he insisted he was quitting because his job is done and it's time for the next generation of public "servants." No human on earth has ever given up the Senate Banking Committee chairmanship just so somebody younger can take up the reins of graft and greed. No, Dodd is giving up because voters were about to throw him out for his extensive involvement in so many of the policies that led to this economic collapse, not to mention the special treatment he enjoyed as one of the politically chosen. Posted by: Fred 2010-01-08 |
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