ND Dem Sen. Byron Dorgan Retiring

When Republicans ask "What's the hurry with health care?"

You can say this was the last chance. Nothing will be do able after November.

This is a very sad day. Dorgan is one of the good ones. This is a loss for sure.

Dorgan was working on drug-reimportation for many years. My first thought was that he's retiring because of the way his amendment was systematically and unfairly defeated in the Senate. While Ben Nelson was able to force his insidious demands, Dorgan's righteous amendment was hijacked by his fellow demoncrats. I imagine he felt very betrayed.

I always thought that Martinez, too, retired because he felt betrayed by his fellow republicans - the way they treated Sotomayor.

Emotional polls have no meaning this early in the game.

Dems should do very well again this year as voters will stream to the polls to vote for more selfish concerns, like their own healthcare that republicans want to take away. Companies will have started hiring again, and minorities will come out in droves, because immigration reform will also be at stake, that republicans want to kill.

Meanwhile, the republicans will still be screaming 'socialism', having tea party wars, being exposed in more sex/bribery scandals, and praying to GOD for something bad to happen to other people.

The 2010 Elections should provide quite a bit of entertainment.

Why can't it be Chris Dodd retiring?

Chris Dodd is going to lose his seat.

Regardless of his comments, you have to wonder if he isn't just fed up with the DEMs. He was one of the really good ones that probably just got sick of being betrayed by his own.

PPP poll for the Connecticut Senate seat will be out tomorrow and they are tweeting that if Blumenthal ran instead of Dodd than the Connecticut seat would remain in the Democratic fold.

He probably figured nothing was going to be done with Rahmbo and his Banksta Gangstas so why even bother. Especially after they kiss Landrieu's and Nelson's asses but defeat Dorgan's amendment. Like I said, if not now then when?

Josh says:
I must confess that while I know the stuff about Countrywide and the larger political climate, I never completely understood just how Dodd -- a seemingly untouchable figure in the Connecticut political firmament for decades -- sort of out of the blue became unelectable.

Well, Josh, maybe it's because CT voter are disgusted by the fact the Dodd was for Gramm-Leach-Bliley before he was against it. That Dodd chaired the Banking Committee while the banksters were running amok and Greenspan was asleep at the switch. That he, and all the other go-along-to-get-along Dumbocrat enablers of the kleptocracy should be retired ASAP.

Well, at the end of the day, where's North Dakota?

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Hey maybe it's because he's 68 and will be 70 in 2012 and is plain fricking tired of working. It's a possibility you know. It doesn't have to be because he's pissed off at the dems. Personally I doubt he is pissed off with them and is retiring for other reasons. Good for him. We will find someone to replace him.

Ed Shultz was just on MSNBC and he said he spoke with Dorgan last night and he said the decision had to do with another term committment where he would be 74 that he didn't want. I think I was right in my earlier post even though it was before I saw Ed.

He also hinted that there may be a place in the Obama cabinet for Dorgan because to quote Ed "he's not done"!. Also, Ed announced that the state's party chairman asked him (Ed) to consider running for U.S. Senator. Stay tuned!!!!!