Dodd’s Big Bang It is never too soon to begin celebrating the legacy of a departing U.S. Senator. U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, soon to be replaced in the beltway club by his clone, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, started to leave office on a bad foot, according to Richard Graziano, the publisher of the Hartford Courant, and the paper’s Opinion Editor, Carol Lumsden. But he has since recovered. In “Polishing His Legacy,” The Courant shines the apple of one of its favored politicians . “Mr. Dodd,” the Courant editorial blushingly confides, was untimely thrust “into the chairmanship of the Senate health committee due to the fatal illness of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, Mr. Dodd played an important role in the passage of landmark legislation that guarantees Americans nearly universal health care coverage and that many hope will begin to reduce costs. “As chairman of the Senate banking committee, Mr. Dodd was the principal architect of the upper chamber's version of the ...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams