isn't in that ballpark.  Were it not for the fact that he was VP nominee last time, I'm not sure Edwards would be deemded to be in that ballpark.  Plus, the MSM spends most of its time dismissing JRE, anyhow.

Dodd actually has considerable ties to Wall Street--where do you think a lot of those people live?  He's always been able to shake that $ tree for Senate races.  HRC pre-empted that field this time, and Obama got in there, too.

Dodd gives a damn about the Constitution.  When you write a book about your father's stint as a Nuremberg prosecutor, I guess you have to give one.  I'm still trying to figure out why our Yale law grad and our former prez of Harvard Law Review don't similarly care.

Because we know Nancy and Harry won't

Dodd is not short, and not even bald or ugly. Why isn't he a "viable" candidate?

because they have already voted

was first and foremost to uphold the constitution, as is required by the presidential oath of office.

All the people on that stage, Dodd included, effectively shut down the Beard's stupid binary thinking with answers that basically said "promoting human rights is effective national security".

If Edwards or Obama or Clinton or the others had come out as quickly and strongly on issues like this, and Iraq, and climate, and FISA, and habeas corpus, I would have supported one of them.

Fantastic candidates, all. But Dodd regularly beats them out of the gate.

than that.

For me, Dodd's still a contender.

will be Obama's V.P. nominee which I think is great. (my 2nd favorite is Webb)  Our US military expects to get the hell out of Iraq and to go back to those E. Afghanistan/W. Pakistan mountains, (Waziristan) the "Obama" plan.  My National Guard Staff Sgt. son ran an Afghan National Army Depot from mid 2005-mid 2006 and the massive War Profiteering and War Crimes that he witnessed by our Cheney/Bush administration and their corporate enablers against our own military the people was overwhelming and demoralizing. (the "Rummy Doctrine" of bombing civilian areas for expediency had the local parents keeping their children away from our troops for days on end--- our corporate crooks never had an interest in winning the "hearts and minds" in either country and our asshat DLC "Congresscritters" haven't found their morales to investigate and prosecute either!  Hillary Clinton falls into that asshat DLC category with her Kyl/Lieberman vote that will keep our U.S. troops in Iraq to defend against the Iranian Guard and it was more war-mongering against Iran.  Did she actually read this legislation before she voted or was she playing the "WAR HAWK" woman?  This 52 year old military mom despises her and her corporate and devisive tactics.  She states that she knows how to "Fight those ring-wingers"?  Who gives a shit when she party to the neo-con corporate branch?  Who does she think that she will win over with this rhetoric?  It certainly won't be our crucial "Independent" or moderate Republicans that despise the Clinton and Bush administrations for their war-mongering, MIC, corporate and divise ways.  Please send Obama (or even Edwards) to Florida as the general election candidate.  We were screwed here with our primary votes because of our majority Republican state critters along with Democratic Hillary state critters.

Without impeachment, the war/occupation will not end, torture will not end, and the status quo of this currently dysfunctional nation will not end.  It's not enough to say they'd support yet one more investigation... To what end? There are investigations going on now, subpoenas that have gone unanswered and the people who have not answered the subpoenas are unpunished, and no one has done a damned thing.  It's quite another for Congress to actually DO SOMETHING for a change besides roll over and give Georgie and Dickie everything they demand.

The senators have a choice in this matter.  Since impeachment trials are held in the senate they can't ethically declare their "verdict" as to how they'd vote (that, in spite of the fact that too many people claim 'there aren't enough votes' before a trial could even be held, which I find absolutely ludicrous)... but the senators could put in a phone call to their own state reps and ask them to sign on to Kucinich's impeachment bill against Dickie, and sign on to Conyers' impeachment bill against Georgie, and they could call Nancy and tell her to put impeachment back on the table.

The Clinton impeachment only took three or four months; they have more than ample evidence of lies (precedent: Clinton was impeached for lying, and Georgie's and Dickie's lies are well documented in Lamestream Media sound bytes, for starters, not including all the other nefarious things those two and their evil cohorts have done and whatever crimes could be uncovered in the discovery process of a trial), and even if each impeachment investigation took four to five months, Dickie and Georgie could be impeached by August or September next year, just in time for people to pay attention to candidates and the upcoming election.  Except for hard-core political junkies, no one's paying attention to the candidate "debates" now, and won't pay attention until about September next year.  A televised impeachment trial that pre-empts daytime soaps would do the trick to get a few people to pay attention.... (I watched the entire Iran-Contra hearings live back in the days when infotainment was not the rage on TV.)  Heck, for an impeachment trial I'd finally pay for cable so I could tape it.  I get C-SPAN online otherwise.

My Rep signed on to Conyers' bill last year before election day (which is what got me to vote for him after some earlier disappointments about other shady votes), and when I wrote to him early this year he sent back a mealy-mouthed email about more important things to do.  I can't tell you how disappointed I was!  He has not signed on to Kucinich's bill.  My Rep is old and has held his seat for many years, so I hope he retires at the end of his term this time.

If Dodd and his fellow senators want to PROVE they can actually DO SOMETHING besides say 'there should be an investigation' they'd get off their arses and START the investigations or go to the appropriate people on committees and demand hearings... and, most of all, they'd contact their own Reps and Nancy and tell them they want to see impeachment proceedings go forward....