Wow, sometimes calling your Senator works

Immense thanks to Chris Dodd for blocking the FISA bill by putting a hold on it.

Firedoglake started a campaign to call Chris Dodd's office to urge the action, and I repeated the call here.

I called the office, and obviously, many of you did too. Great work.

And I just switched my vote in the Democratic primary to Dodd.

Call again and say "Thanks."

That's Senator Shit-for-brains to you

It's beyond the pale that a Congress with an 11% approval rating can waste their time condemning an ad that is morally and factually correct. All the while failing to do what the majority of voters have asked them to do - end the goddamned war!

It's a relier that one of Connecticut's senators, Chris Dodd, assailed his colleagues on his website.

As one-time Hartford resident Mark Twain once said: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."