Dodd is long gone. After doing his part to destroy the financial industry, he retired and took a job as a lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America. He is true scum.

Is the Tea Party against supporting the Great Lakes? If they are, I guess they were mad at him. I guess you buy into the non compromise position of the Tea Party since you point out a co-sponsored bill as an example of him not being Tea Party. There lies the problem. Mostly, they don't want to compromise, especially when it comes to jobs, economy, civil rights, women's rights, healthcare, gun rights and medicare. So, he want to save the Great Lakes? Great. But, he is still Tea Party to the core. Listings in 2010 had him as a Tea Party Candidate. What does that mean? For one, he signed an allegience to Grover Norquist NEVER to raise revenue, even through loopholes. and this...'The candidates promise to carry into office the Tea Party’s strict interpretation of the Constitution. Time and time again, Dold gets caught with right-wing groups. He was endorsed by Phyllis Schlafly’s right-wing Eagle Forum group and now says it was a “mistake.” He’s endorsed by Dan Quayle and Grover Norquist. He’s supported by Americans for Prosperity, Dick Armey’s Freedom Works, and the American Action Network. He’s recommended by the anti-choice Federation for Right to Life. The list goes on and on.' Tenth Dems

RB, if I wanted to hear the musings of a Kos Kid, I'd click over there.

@ Guido. You might want to go to the Daily Kos. Here's a link you might be interested in:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/18/946760/-House-votes-to-defund-Planned-Parenthood-Title-X

The following doesn't give the HR number so it is hard to verify the actual voting record and they do have a caveat about that. However, it does say that Democratic Reps Costello and Lipinski voted with the Republicans to defund PP and defund Title X. Note that Reps Biggert and Dold voted against it. I don't really believe the Daily Kos is much of a Tea Party shill. Were Reps Costello and Lipinski "allowed" to vote that way because of their constituencies?

“The war on women is full on. The House voted today, 240-185, to block all federal funding to Planned Parenthood, and to go one further, by defunding Title X entirely. A handful of "Dems" voted with Republicans to endanger the lives of women all over the nation.”

“The roll call vote hasn't been posted, but House staff provides the names of those Dems who voted with the Rs to defund: Dan Boren (OK), Jerry Costello (IL), Joe Donnelly (IN), Dan Lipinski (IL), Mike McIntyre (NC), Collin Peterson (MN), Nick Rahall (WV), Silvestre Reyes (TX), Mike Ross (AR), Heath Shuler (NC).”

“These Republicans voted no: Charlie Bass (NH), Judy Biggert (IL), Mary Bono Mack (CA), Charlie Dent (PA), Robert Dold (IL), Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ), Richard Hanna (NY). Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) voted present.”

"You might want to go to the Daily Kos. Here's a link you might be interested in"

My interest in the machinations of sociopaths is next to nil.

My interest is in reducing their power wherever possible.

Nice. Dick might want to scrub that from his website.

Each party does have problems. The biggest problem is no desire on the part of the Tea Party Republicans to compromise. They don't have to give up all their beliefs to get something done. If you want Democracy to function....working together is required. Give and Take.

RB, as the old saying goes, everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.

FACT – 38 people voted for Cooper - La Tourette in the U.S. House, including Dold along with 20 other Republicans and 18 Democrats.

FACT – The Concord Coalition, a leading non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public about the causes and consequences of federal budget deficits, honored Dold and the 37 other Representatives with the 2012 Paul Tsongas Economic Patriot Award.

FACT – Here is the opinion of Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reforem http://www.atr.org/congressman-steve-latourette-supports-trillion-tax-a6808. They call Cooper LaTourette a $2 Trillion tax increase. And where is Norquist’s 2012 endorsement of Dold, BTW? It doesn't exist.

It is fine to criticize Dold on other issues. But, RB, every time between now and the election you repeat the falsehood about Dold and Grover Norquist and Dold’s unwillingness to compromise on budget matters, I’m going to call you on it. By the way – I’m not a Tea Partier – I’m voting for Obama.

Dan, I never considered you a Tea Partier. Mr. Dold has been participating in Show Voting. Boehner and Cantor allow him votes that will not result in a Republican loss on an issue so that he can appear moderate to the 10th. When push comes to shove, he voted to dismantle Obama Care and for the Ryan budget that ends Medicare as a n cap program and ends Medicaid for may people. Interestingly the Ryan budget also cuts $716B from Medicare but does not put the money back into healthcare. Good for voting for Obama, consider Schneider. Dold was one of the freshman that almost bought America to our knees,

"Boehner and Cantor allow him votes that will not result in a Republican loss on an issue so that he can appear moderate to the 10th."

War Party Blue, aka Democrats, would never stoop to such levels. Right?

RB, you haven't addressed the content of my last post - the intellectually honest response to my last post would be to either (i) offer additional evidence for your point or (ii) say, you know what, on this one issue, I was wrong.

I might consider voting for Schneider if you pledged to stop your false statements about Dold and his position on the federal budget. In a time when we need to encourage politicians to cross the aisle, your lies about Mr. Dold's courageous vote are, to steal a line from the 1960s, "part of the problem, not part of the solution."

I might also consider voting for Schneider if I saw evidence that he had the same sort of courage to vote for a Simpson-Bowles or Cooper-LaTourette type piece of legislation. You want to convince me to vote for him, show me the evidence........

See the Tribune's endorsement of Dold below.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-intro-1007-20121007,0,4787522.story

Note the following paragraph

"Dold was a co-sponsor and one of just 38 House members to vote in favor of the Cooper-LaTourette debt reduction plan, the only bipartisan budget resolution to make it to the House floor in more than a decade. That measure would raise some taxes and make sensible spending cuts. Schneider said he would vote against it — not a great sign that he would help to break the gridlock in Washington."

I'm voting for Dold.

Indeed, the democrats constantly rolled over like good little lapdogs for Shrub.

God Bless Joe Walsh.

Hard, really hard ,to believe that anyone would buy and pay anything for such an inferior product.