Washington Senator Chris Dodd will not seek re-election

[dumbdems]

So long dickhead! Total arrogant self-absorbed politician that thinks he's Mr. Fabulous!

[chetohimler]

1 little,2 little,3 little demos'. 4 little, 5 little,6 little demos'. 7 little, 8 little, 9 little demos'. 10 demos' out the door....

[dmmurillo100]

good riddance to this jackass

now if he can also convince Pelosi and Reid to follow his lead

[LZFAN2009]

dodd reid pelosi frank obama should be brought up on charges for endagering the commerce of the United States.

obama had these 3 democrats not run for re-election

And oba,as administrationwanted that plane to blow up Christmas Day!!

Just to enact for lunatic policies!!!

[blunderbus21]

Ted Kennedy..Chris Dodd..Richard Blumenthal.. elitist-scum! In my opinion all should be tried for treason against our Constitution. Blumenthal is buddy buddy with the Clinton's and the rest of the democrats who are racist. Watch: NO GUNS FOR NEGROS..they endorse 1938 Nazi gun laws designed to disarm and then murder over 12 million civilians! Good riddens you scum bags!

[ed2kou1]

FU DODD! YOU BELONG IN PRISON!

[LIBERTYTREE60]

This is only the beginning. Chris, "get a special loan favor" Dodd not seeking re-election is a common sense move on his part. Possibly his first. Used up and scandalized, Dodd does not want to go down with the USS Progressive/Socialist ship!

[the82spartans]

Chris Dodd FAIL.

[LIBERTYTREE60]

@the82spartans

No. MAJOR Fail. :-)

(correct spelling helps)

[the82spartans]

Dodd could also be called:

GENERAL FAILYER.

: P

[RonFella]

Demo-rats fleeing the sinking ship. Don't let the door hit you in the butt Chris.

[danosamo1424]

omg, how stupid are you dummacrats, time to step down to let someone else have a turn, let me translate this for you shit for brains dummacrats,,

I have robbed the taxpayers for around 100 million, now me and my family will live for the next 5 generations in wealth, and you guessed it, we wont be dealing with this piece of shit healthcare plan like the rest of you, this sorry piece of shit needs to be thrown in jail along with several more dummacrats, FUCK YOU DODD,

[deadpool03mm]

In the 2 party system, any time a new faction within any party consolidates power, some internal house-cleaning must be done. Dodd and the other guy were the first, there will be more to come. The moderate, career slime-ball Democrats are about to go bye bye. You can't remake the entire American economy and political system if half of your own party are only on board when the cameras are rolling.

[roscoe85cj]

30 years in the Senate and you just know this insufferable prick stole enough of our tax dollars to live comfortably for the rest of his life .. lets just hope that eventuality comes ASAP !

[fuklibs]

Wise choice you piece of shit!

Now can we please sign treason charges on this prick?

[JurkoffJay]

I guess he figured it's time to get the hell out of dodge before more people find out his hand in the economic crisis.

[DaFinisherBX]

What a shock? 1 of the people responsible 4 this man-made Crisis that has plunged this country into a financial disaster, has no support 4 re-election in his state. What a shock?

[danich45]

perhaps i misunderstood the article about dodd. please correct me if you have read the article. thanks

[danich45]

forget politics for a minute. dodd was described a while back in either esquire or atlantic magazine as the guy that hung out with sen kennedy when they sexually assaulted women as they travelled across country. everyone knew kennedy was a serial rapest. but i had never heard about dodd. aparently this had been going on for years. does anyone have the name and date of that article, if so please post it. why wasn't dodd kicked out when that article was published?

[StinkingHombre]

How could he run again after he betrayed the people of Connecticut by cutting the throat of their most important industry? At least he is smart enough to commit hari kari because you know his ass would have been removed and it frees the idiots in Connecticut to vote in a new Democrat.

R.I.P. Connecticut Insurance Industry

[deadpool03mm]

if Insurance is your most important industry, I have a new-found dislike for Connecticut. If your economy revolves around high-stakes gambling on car crashes and death then I'd say it's probably time to find a new industry.. GM may have been fucked up when they still ran Detroit, but at least they actually PRODUCED something..

[StinkingHombre]

@deadpool03mm - What other state capital is named for an insurance company? Hartford is about the only one I can think up. Insurance is about a lot more then just car wrecks & death and it has a legitimate purpose. Insurance reform shouldn't mean the government is taking over what was formerly a private industry. This bullshit all started from a jar on top of the bar at Loyd's Pub that people threw loose change into. When a ship went down the sailors families split the jar fund. - fubar!

[deadpool03mm]

It does here and there. Home, life, etc. But you also have to remember, as you correctly pointed out, that in the old days, it was always not-for-profit. The Odd-Fellows and various other quasi-masonic fraternal societies, for example, all once served as non-profit insurance providers for working schmucks. When my grandfather died at a young age, the Knights of Columbus passed the hat around to help my Grandmother keep the electricity on, for example.

[deadpool03mm]

Personally, I believe that much of the old American Populist movement, which was composed largely of Ma and Pa Kettle types from the rural mid-west, was, in fact, anti-communist and quite conservative in many ways, actually had quite a few things right when it comes to economics. The insurance industry, for example, represents a modern-day "natural monopoly" much like the rail-roads once were. It's a field in which one may make astronomical sums of money by having money to begin with, and

[deadpool03mm]

it is quite visible to me that systems like this unless counter-balanced somehow with State intervention or a very robust non-profit alternative which could probably only be set up with state-intervention, basically occupy a parasitic niche in our economic system. The insurance industry is an ologarchic network of high stakes corporations who drain money from productive enterprise. The fact that it's basically all but impossible for them to provide universal coverage also drains money

[deadpool03mm]

from the public treasury as well, which means that tax-payers are already subsidizing the profits of private insurance anyway. Since it would be impossible for me to raise enough capital and start a small insurance business which could actually give AIG a run for their money, there can't be any real competition in the Adam Smith sense of things. Therefore, it's only logical to me that State intervention is necessary. There are some things that people just simply shouldn't make money on.

[blunderbus21]

dead: Show me something the government runs well. SOcial security, medicare, post office...what? We need less government not more.

[deadpool03mm]

Nobody but the Government could possibly do what the Post Office does. Ever. Seriously. For another thing, I daresay that the Military, the FBI, and NASA are all quite outstandingly successful. I could just as easily ask you to show me one fucking thing that business runs well, and yes, I certainly do think we need a LOT less of big business..

[blunderbus21]

dead: You are an absolute louse. FBI are jackbooted thugs waiting to take your head off. NASA? Why spend billions worrying about ET when we have more than enough problems to solve here first. Military? Stretched so thin, @ an unsustainable cost to the taxpayer and being trained to squash the civilian population. People like you deserve some stupid bureaucrat to tax you and to tell you how and where to live... To tell your kids what occupation they will have for life etc. You're a sick joke!

[deadpool03mm]

And I'm an evil space lizard. I didn't put forth those three agencies to hear your lunatic fringe-right Tim McVeigh-esq opinions on their ethical standards, I put them forth because they're all quite good at what they do. In fact, probably the best in the world at what they do, and they're all Feds. Therefore, your wrong about your "Govt. Can't do nothin" thesis. And since you've decided to get so personal, I wouldn't really give a fuck

[deadpool03mm]

if the Military or the Feds did "squash the civilian population" so long as they kept the guns pointed at fringe-right youtube basement trolls.

[StinkingHombre]

@deadpool03mm - I don't understand why the modern insurance "industry" is expected to be non-profit. I agree that they shouldn't be making obscene profits but they do need to be profitable. If you owned a half million dollar home and it burned to the ground would you want to rely on the Knights of Columbus passing the hat around? No and you know it, you would want your house rebuilt to it's former self and that's one of the things they do!

[deadpool03mm]

No. They don't. The modern "insurance industry" is a natural monopoly, and they need to be non-profit because allowing that type of Capitalism is not only immoral but a threat to civil democracy. Is insurance not a form of gambling? You and I also know that we're more discussing HEALTH insurance then life/home/auto. And unique to the field of health insurance is the fact that sickness is basically certain on a long enough time line. Therefore, the only way the entire industry can make money

[deadpool03mm]

is to cheat their own customers in the fine print. Therefore, we have a health insurance industry specifically which is literally designed by the creators thereof to NOT WORK. I say fuck em. If the Aussies can figure out National health-care then even this retarded fuckin country has a shot

[mrbriscoe2001]

Senator Chris Dodd- Llt. Frank Drebbin of Police Squad-seperated at birth?

[the82spartans]

hahhahahaahahaa!

funny...

[mrbriscoe2001]

thanks.

[ccfinfo]

Good riddance "Crook" Dodd. Take Pelosi, Reid and ll the other crooks with you.

[quizerry]

All three are on the Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians list at judicialwatch. org Obama is also on the list. It is time we the people take America back. Of the 535 only a dozen deserve their jobs. The rest should be VOTED OUT 2010-2012

[CheObama]

Panicing because the bottoms dropping out... 0bama drops the hammer. Dodds pitiful poll numbers are of great concern for Mr. Hussein. If he loses even one seat in the Sen. he'll be considered a lame duck for the rest of his term. Therefor gave the order for Dodd to fold up and fade away.

[the82spartans]

Che0bama: Do you mind if I use the number zero as you did to spell 0bama in the future?

Zero is so apropos to sum up his Commander in Chief Skills, his economic, foreign & domestic policy skills as well his leadership skills.

Thanks!

[Che0bama]

spartan; I don't mind at all. The "0" sums things up rather nicely... IMO.

Spread the word: "We the people"...

[the82spartans]

Thanks!

I will.

[Thrice13]

Support Peter Schiff for US Senate to replace Dodd! Search "Peter Schiff was Right" and you will see why!

[davidpark68]

WooHoo! Go Peter Schiff!

[WiseGuy5674]

He's finally using his head and bailing out now before he goes and spends millions just to lose. He's got his golden parachute, and he plus many other Dems are going to call it quits. They look at the poll numbers...They're all screwed and they know it. Not in RI though. Dems in RI know that they're the only show in town, they'll keep their jobs because RI voters are dumb as rocks and the Republican Party is non-existent. If RI's had any brains, they would beg Laffe to run for Governor.