A pair of Democratic Senators will not be running this fall.

North Dakota’s Byron Dorgan made the announcement yesterday.

North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan stunned fellow Democrats when he decided not to seek re-election this fall and swung open a race that Republicans are convinced will help the GOP dent the Democrats’ fragile majority in the Senate.

Today Connecticut’s Christopher Dodd will announce his retirement.

Trouble-plagued Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, who has for months been considered the most vulnerable Senate incumbent seeking re-election this year, will announce Wednesday that he is ending his bid for a sixth six-year term, a Democratic source confirmed.

Dodd will make the announcement at a press conference at his home in Connecticut.

I guess this moves Harry Reid up to the “the most vulnerable Senate incumbent” spot. Unless he wants to join the departure parade.

Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd, just to add two names to the list.

Democratic presidential candidates Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd will not participate in a Democratic debate co-sponsored by Fox News Channel this fall, joining their three top rivals in bypassing the event.

I guess they’re afraid that someone at FOX will huff and puff and ask them a real question.

Their decisions, acknowledged by campaign aides Wednesday, is sure to disappoint the Congressional Black Caucus, whose political education and leadership institute is Fox’s partner in the debate.

Better to disappoint the Congressional Black Caucus than to offend the tin-foil hat brigade.

But Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, and Dodd, a senator from Connecticut, have been under pressure to shun the debate from liberal groups who say Fox is biased against Democrats.

They join the distinguished trio of John (“just the poor kids who get sent to war“) Edwards, comrade Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, who have already announced that they would not participate caved.

But Colorofchange.org, an organization of black online activists, and the liberal MoveOn.org have agitated against Fox with an Internet campaign that includes video excerpts of conservative Fox commentators. MoveOn this week initiated an e-mail campaign urging backers to call Biden’s campaign to demand he back out of the debate.

Wow. Just Wow.

Imagine the future. . .

President Hillary Obamwards announced today that from now on all questions for the president will have to be vetted by press secretary Michael Moore.

I’m going to have nightmares.

Nancy Astor: “If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “And if I were your husband, I would drink it.”

Perhaps I should have waited until later today and filed this as a Ridiculous Headline post. Here’s the AP/Yahoo! Headline:

Democrats seek tougher action on Iraq

Wouldn’t that be a great thing if the Dems wanted to get tougher? But wait. That’s not what they want at all.

Why, that’s not being tougher. That’s Cut and Run v. 8.0 (codenamed Quagmire).

The headline should read, “Democrats seek tougher action on America”

Here’s an alternative you might want to try Senator, Victory has the best chance of bringing our troops home.

I’m convinced that the real aim is not Iraq, but rather 2008.

It’s all about the nutroots base after all.

I’m not John Boehner’s biggest fan, but he has this exactly right.

Wake me up when the Dems want to get tough on terror instead of America’s interests.

For a while I was concerned about the 2006 and 2008 elections. The more I hear the left speak, the less worried I become. Perhaps it is my unique sense of humor (some say bizarre, some say off beat, some say warped. Take your pick) but I just find the things the left says totally funny. Take this story about potential 2008 Presidential candidate Christopher Dodd:

He [Dodd] went on to rouse the group with a speech that criticized the war in Iraq, called for a minimum wage increase, stressed the need for alternative fuels, declared education as the nation’s most important issue, promised to protect Social Security and pointed out problems in the health care system.

Dodd said people are “nauseated” by the country’s polarization under President Bush.

Maybe it’s just me, but those two paragraphs together are just funny. Don’t you need two polls to be polarizing?

But I really laughed when I read this paragraph:

Jacqulyn Mack, 36, of Sarasota said she likes New York Sen. Hillary Clinton but questions whether she can win the presidency and would love to see a run by former Vice President Al Gore, who lost the presidency in 2000 after Florida’s five-week recount gave Bush a 537-vote win.

She questions whether Hillary can win the presidency and would love to see a run by Al Gore? Al Gore was wide left when he lost and has fallen off the farthest left side of this warming world in the six years since.

Oh, please DemocRATS, please get Gore to run again. If laughter is the best medicine I won’t need Medicare.