Reply #9: I recall the Daily Show showing Dodd and Lieberman ... [View All]

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arm and arm entering the Senate chamber ... didn't seem phased by having yet another election stolen ...

"Jon Stewart's Daily Show introduces you to the 109th Congress. We're in trouble folks, but it does make for great humor. I like the way Jon mocks the president's comments to new members, and of course now we know Hassert's proclivities. Oh yes, Dodd and Lieberman are now out of closet."
QuickTime http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/ds010505congress.html

Dodd is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations - birds of a feather flock together
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cfr.php

our current crop of politicians, by and large, are so sold out

the CFR did much ground work 'research' regarding Caspian Sea geopolitics (oil)
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