Hold Fast

I never met Senator Ted Kennedy, though my political life has often run close to him and his work. Last year, when I was working in Alaska for Mark Begich’s Senate campaign, there was a lot of talk about the Kennedy family and the state’s history in presidential elections. John F. Kennedy was the last [...]

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So sayeth his Twitter feed. Of course, O’Reilly has tried to demonize Netroots Nation before. Back in 2007, when it was still called Yearly Kos and there was to be a Democratic presidential candidates forum at the event, BillO went on a weeklong campaign against Daily Kos and the convention. It was effectively put to [...]

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Senator Dodd speaks to the MyLeftNutmeg community about his current health issues, reforming healthcare, and the importance of having good coverage and regular checkups. The video was shot by Connecticut Man1, a disabled vetern who writes his own blog on CT politics, as well as regularly contributes on MLN. He talks with Dodd about the [...]

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Health Care for American Now is running an ad thanking Senator Chris Dodd for his work on the HELP Committee to put forward legislation that includes a public health insurance option. HCAN will have even more to thank for, as the HELP Committee has just passed  their version of the bill out of committee. Jonathan [...]

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Via tparty, the Dodd campaign has put out a web video highlighting recent press where he has been anonymously attacked by lobbyists for healthcare industries and financial industries for not listening to their corporations’ concerns. Here’s a link to the Roll Call article where health insurance lobbyists whine about Dodd not listening to them. Here’s [...]

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This is great news. Dodd is now where he should be on marriage equality. I’m very proud of him for this. His willingness to re-evaluate his beliefs should be a model for other elected officials nationwide. My young daughters are growing up in a different reality than I did. Our family knows many same-sex couples [...]

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It’s hard to think of a more powerful ad than this,  given Dodd and Kennedy’s decades of friendship and the trials Senator Kennedy is himself going through now as he battles cancer. Here’s the transcript: SENATOR KENNEDY: Quality healthcare as a fundamental right for all Americans has been the cause of my life, and Chris [...]

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Rough partial transcript: “…when I pick up the morning newspaper and I read the first headline that “Fault Lines Emerge and Industry Groups Blast Plan to Create Consumer Agency,” what planet are you living on? The very people who created the damn mess are the ones now arguing that consumers ought not to be protected!  [...]

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Chris Dodd is effectively running the HELP Committee and quarterbacking the movement of their healthcare reform legislation. While the bill they have out so far does not have a public health insurance option, Dodd and other Democrats have repeatedly assured the public that it will be added by amendments. Thus far there are already in [...]

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Or at least it appears that after their god-awful, factually inaccurate product of failed due diligence editorial, the Times is giving space for columnist Gail Collins to make up for their bad behavior. Her Saturday column was a great run-down of the yeoman’s work Chris Dodd has done thus far in the Obama administration, essentially [...]

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