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Dodd: Thought of Scott Brown blocking health reform 'sickens'
2010-01-16
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said Friday that it "sickens" him that Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown could block healthcare reform if elected.

Dodd, a longtime friend and ally of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), blasted the Republican candidate to permanently fill Kennedy's seat over Brown's stance against the health bill before Congress.

"Health care was the cause of my friend Ted Kennedy's life," Dodd said in a fundraising letter for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC).

"So it sickens me that the Republican running to take Ted's place is vowing to be the 41st vote to kill health care reform," Dodd added.

Brown has made health reform a centerpiece of his underdog Senate campaign. If elected and sworn in quickly enough, Brown could give Republicans 41 seats in the Senate, conceivably enough to sustain a filibuster against the health bill if the GOP sticks together.

"This seat represents more than Ted's progressive legacy. This seat is the tipping point between a Senate that can pass President Obama's agenda, and one frozen into inaction by Republican obstruction," Dodd said. "Scott Brown is the face of that obstruction, and that's why we must help Martha."
Sure. C'mon up and put another nail in Martha's coffin, Chris. All the boys are gonna be here...
Posted by:Fred

#8  Somebody give him a barf bag and tell him to STFU.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2010-01-16 12:19  

#7  Show some respect folks. He's the only surviving piece of bread from the Waitress Sandwich.
I'm sure that's traumatic for him...
Posted by: tu3031   2010-01-16 10:42  

#6  I say let it be Kennedy's seat, and let it stay empty. Massachusetts would still be over-represented with one voting Senator.
Posted by: Glenmore   2010-01-16 10:39  

#5   ...fill Kennedy's seat...

Um, Chrissie-poo, I thought Scott Brown made it pretty clear that this is the "peoples" seat. Maybe you missed that part about the US not having a landed aristocracy?
Posted by: AlanC   2010-01-16 09:01  

#4  Nothing like a 'countrywide' sickening I always say?
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-01-16 07:50  

#3  
Posted by: DMFD   2010-01-16 05:56  

#2  Come one, come all, Get your ringside seat to the New Milleniums greatest event, the implosion of the Democratic Party. First on the list of Blue States is Massachusetts,followed by California,then Nevada then....

- It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship, and they've been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; it's—the rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it just, just enough to keep it from — It burst into flames! It burst into flames, and it's falling, it's crashing! Watch it! Watch it, folks! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire—and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my, get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames, and the—and it's falling on the mooring-mast and all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world. Ohhhhh! It's–it's–it's the flames, [indecipherable, 'enty' syllable] oh, four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it ... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now ... and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring-mast. Oh, the humanity and all the passengers screaming around here. I told you, I can't even talk to people whose friends are on there. Ah! It's–it's–it's–it's ... o–ohhh! I–I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen. Honest, it's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk, and the screaming. Lady, I–I'm sorry. Honest: I–I can hardly breathe. I–I'm going to step inside, for I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah—I can't. I, listen, folks, I–I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed

Morrison's phrase "Oh, the humanity" has become an American idiom, most often used in a satirical way to ridicule, diminish and trivialize emotional displays the speaker deems overly sentimental
Posted by: Blackbeard Omomock5867   2010-01-16 01:19  

#1  Electorate: Thought of Sen. Dodd continuing in office 'sickens'
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-01-16 00:47  

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