Hope and Change in 2010: Democrat Sen. Dorgan to retire
DLTDHYOTWO!*
Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan sees the writing on the wall:
“For the past year, I have been making plans to seek another six-year Senate term in next year’s election. Those plans included raising campaign funds and doing the organizing necessary to wage a successful campaign.
“Even as I have done that, in recent months I began to wrestle with the question of whether making a commitment to serve in the Senate seven more years (next year plus a new six-year term) was the right thing to do.
“I have been serving as an elected official in our state for many years. Beginning at age 26, I served ten years as State Tax Commissioner followed by thirty years in the U.S. Congress by the end of 2010. It has been a long and wonderful career made possible by the people of North Dakota. And I am forever grateful to them for the opportunity.
“Although I still have a passion for public service and enjoy my work in the Senate, I have other interests and I have other things I would like to pursue outside of public life. I have written two books and have an invitation from a publisher to write two more books. I would like to do some teaching and would also like to work on energy policy in the private sector.
“So, over this holiday season, I have come to the conclusion, with the support of my family, that I will not be seeking another term in the U.S. Senate in 2010. It is a hard decision to make after thirty years in the Congress, but I believe it is the right time for me to pursue these other interests.
“Let me be clear that this decision does not relate to any dissatisfaction that I have about serving in the Senate.
Indeed, it has much more to do with the dissatisfaction that his constituents have with him serving in the Senate — not the other way around.
*Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out.
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Kim Priestap calls Dorgan out:
Dorgan faces almost certain defeat if Republican Governor John Hoeven runs against him. According to Rasmussen’s latest poll on December 21, Hoeven would trounce Dorgan, 58% to 36%. Health care is a huge problem for the senator, as a whopping 64% of North Dakotans don’t want what Dorgan is voting to give them.
What a schmuck Dorgan is. Rather than doing what his constituents want him to do and vote against the Democrats’ health care catastrophe, he’s going to vote for it anyway and then retire and enjoy the government’s fat pension and high quality health care, all funded by the US taxpayer. What a freaking coward.
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He now gets to vote for every piece of sh*t bill for the rest of the year… including Amnesty, which is coming in the Spring.
Good point. If he was going to get thumped anyway, not really good news for you guys, is it?
Oh my.
Nothing so perilous to the Republic as liberated “free-to-be-me” Libtards.
Good riddance!
One down, 59 to go.
Mmm hmm …
Believe this and that Colorado oceanfront property is still available …
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
A.M.F.
Dorgan knows that the USA is headed for disaster and he wants to be able to say that it didn’t happen on his watch. He hopes that the fact that he is a principle instigator of the disaster will be long forgotten and that he can hide from his responsibility. My hope is that he is held to account by his citizen peers and that his life in retirement is less than comfortable. Every one of these progressive senators and representatives needs to live with the knowledge that their peers despise them.
In ancient Greece, the punishment for such despicable actions against the democratic wishes of the citizenry was banishment. It is a real shame that we don’t have such a punishment.
Rats leaving the ship?
Today has been a good one Dorgan out and Crist’s point man Greer in FL out. Let’s do this again tomorrow with some more tools
He already lives in freaking North Dakota? Where do you banish someone from North Dakota?
I’m with you, Jaded #10. Maybe we can keep this trend going through 2010.
I nominate McCain for the next ouster. Any chance we can find someone to primary his maverick posterior?
When is Dodd going to make a similar decision?
My guess is he’s lived the last 30 years in DC, with a truck stop in Bismarck as his “home address”…
Berkley, land of the brain dead.
I dunno about you, but if I had not had a real job for 43 years, I would be kinda embarrassed about it…
“Moderate, moderate moderate”….
No matter how many times the democrat press corpse claims Dorgan is a moderate, he is in no way moderate.
He may have been at one time, but lost that distinction at least as far back as 2000.
Good riddance COWARD!
Hey now! Having been born and raised in ND, there are many much worse places to be….
New York City, Berzerkley, San Fransicko…..generally any blue enclave.
The only place I can think of that would be worse would be DC. Dorgan won’t ever live in ND again. His wife is already a lobbyist in DC and I’m sure he’ll be lobbying as soon as he’s out of the senate.
Good ol AP, blogging for democrats again.
They released this story about a half hour ago, then updated it slightly once Pomeroy could come up with a semi-coherent statement sucking up, and getting his name out there for a possible run to win Dorgan’s Senate seat.
The only difference between the initial AP story and the current version is:
And as usual, no indication that the story has been updated/corrected.
Bawwwney Fwanks basement.
As a former North Dakotan, all I can say is that Dorgan has made a mockery of the independent spirit of the folks he represented.
Yeah, the voters got sick of him!
AP has updated their democrat favorable story again with comments from Duh Won:
The story would be more accurate with,
standingscrewing with North Dakotas families through difficult economic times.Dorgan = Chicken —- (rhymes with spit)
*Dorgan won’t be the last; People have caught on that there is no such animal as a moderate Democrat, or a principled Democrat, or any with the cajones to stand up to P-BO and his Communist Clown Cluster; All the Dems must go in 2010 and 2012, as well as all the RINO’s; One at a time until they are all gone from office; Whatever it takes, that must be the goal, or we may never rescue this country from certain death.
The thing is, what he is doing to “us”, he is doing to you. We are all being beshatted upon.
I just read on HotAir that Dodd is announcing his retirement….!!!! LOL
The Donks are retiring a load of veterans so they can trot out a new cadre of candidates who won’t have the taint of association with Obamacare in the hopes that the voter will still vote Donk.
Dodd is not seeking reelection.
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Dodd-to-Retire-80769212.html
It’s young people like you for whom it’s worse. If you don’t want to buy healthcare, you’ll get fined. If you do buy it, you’ll be subsidizing old farts like me since the Senate healthcare bill says insurance companies can’t charge me more than 3 times what you’ll pay and the House bill says they can’t charge me more than twice what you pay.
I’ve already retired once, so an amnesty won’t hurt me as much as it does you because your taxes will have to increase to support the “new Democrat voters” who will flood over the border.
You young Democratic Party supporters are cutting your own throats.
ECS
Not really good news for America, you mean.
Also, since Dorgan and Dodd won’t be there to run against (just their records on policy), I’m wondering what anti-American pieces of meat the Dems will nominate to take their places.
Wow! There are more fellow No Daks (and former No Daks) on here than I thought.
“My guess is he’s lived the last 30 years in DC, with a truck stop in Bismarck as his “home address”…”
AlohaGuy, that’s probably not too far off from the truth. I suppose he’ll have to get in one last word about how he was the one who brought the oil boom back here. Now, let’s just hope Hoeven runs to replace him. Go, John!
$100 says by this time next year he’ll have given up the pretense of a ND residency and will never live there again.
The Republican Revolution is gaining speed!
To Canada.
My feeling is if he hasn’t fleeced the public enough by now, he isn’t worth re-electing any way. He’s been feeding at the public trough since he was 26. His Wikipedia page claims he’s one of the most powerful Democrats and policymakers. Ok, that’s certainly enough reason to throw this rascal out.
Shoot, not the Pelosi thread…
“You Guys”???
Is “you guys” referring to the people of ND….you know…the state he supposedly represents….the state where it looks like about 2/3 of the residents are ready to boot him out?
Or is “you guys” referring to conservatives in general?
Either way it’s a “f**k you” kind of statement to make. What is it with you Libs?!? You are essentially saying “yeah, he’s not doing his job (representing those who’ve elected him in the past), but who cares? Too bad for “you guys” whe are getting the shaft by a POS senator that is only interested in his power”.
I guess when public opinion is in your favor, you claim to “represent the people”, but when it’s not, you are “speaking truth to power”?!? Is that your rationale??
YO CHAP, HE COULD BE BANISHED TO DETROIT.
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The second team of Hope and Change is queuing up for the 2010 election–the first team knows that they are toast. Tea Party them and bind them to Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his ilk.
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John Bibb
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If I got that upset every time someone made a “f**k you” statement toward me, whether real or a figment of my paranoid imagination, I’d already be dead of a heart attack.
Take two beta blockers, Indy Rich, and call me in the morning.
Maybe we can thump him AFTER he leaves office? He and Comrade Dodd could run the gauntlet as in the old movies.
Hurry up/chop-chop
beta blockers are for sissies
Hey, have at him. He certainly deserves it.
I just love how these traitors talk of their “Service” to their country.
What a bunch of BS!
The only thing politicians like Senator Dorgan do is shaft the country all the while collecting bribes and payoffs.
Ever notice how so many go to Wash DC flat broke and leave multi millionaires with a taxpayer funded retirement plan?
Pretty contemptible statement on your part since you have a tendency to participate in the whole Dems vs. Repubs dichotomy. Then again, you’ve lumped me and others in the “contemptible Conservative” class because of your own delusions.
You might be paranoid after all. Liberals with big egos usually are.
Good riddance to this piece of rubbish. I really wonder what kind of service this scumbag provided North Dakotans over the years. Endless farm subsidies? An endless supply of pork? What exactly did he do?
He should have been shown the door a long time ago but there must have been people in North Dakota, like in other states with Dems, who were satisfied with their supply of the taxpayers’ treasury. North Dakota deserved representation that actually “represented” the interests of those who lived there. If they actually got it, I’ll be surprised.
I neer called you a contemptible conservative, emjem. Only a contemptible person.
I hope that clears things up for you.
I really don’t think you’re in any position to judge what qualifies me as a “contemptible” person. Perhaps, that’s your huge ego or active paranoia at work. Who’s to say?
I think the use of salacious hyperbole, Chaps, has a tendency to make your insight a little more cloudy. Then again, I’m not sure one has much in the way of “insight” into any issue when the only thing they find useful in a blog exchange is the use of personal invective such as “contemptible.”
No, no….what you say in this instance not only lacks clarity but any meaning. Calling another person contemptible is what one does when they no longer have insight to offer.
Perhaps, you need to shine that mirror on yourself. Or commiserate with Zyzzyg. Or drown your sorrows with some overpriced French Chardonnay.
/shrug
$100 says he’s already done so.
The problem with Dorgan in NoDak, like Conrad also from NoDak is that they are “stealth” leftists. Others like them are Feingold here in Wisconsin.
They talk about helping farmers, may have the Farm Bureau advocate on their behalf if the Senator brings home the subsidies (not difficult for that to get passed) and act as if they remember what it’s like to live in the state.
In Washington, they change like from Jekyll to Hyde and come out of the closet as raving leftists.
Not much is said back home about the leftist drivel they support, so voters may not be aware of how raving they have become.
Dorgan rose to the point it couldn’t be hidden any longer. Conrad? Well, his time is coming as well. Feingold? Who knows. As long as they have the support of the leftists in the major cities, they can still squeak back into office.
Dorgan? Well, the cats out of the bag so I doubt anything would have helped him.
Hopefully the cat will be out of the bag in many other states where these closet leftists are from.
Twice in one night? I guess we know what was on somebody’s “Word of the Day Calendar” that they got from the Secret Santa at work.
I didn’t call you contemptible here. I merely corrected your claim that I called you a contemptible person (as opposed to conservative) in the past.
Not a huge fan of chardonnay in any case, but the French stuff is far more value priced than anything you’d find from California. Just an FYI.
Wait. Reverse that.
Sorry. It must be the effects of the overpriced French Chardonnay.