April 25, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Dominican Republic: Politics: Congress: Powerlineblog: Robert Novak blows the whistle on Senator Dodd's bogus claim that it is "rare indeed for me to express objection to a nominee."
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April 14, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Dominican Republic: Politics: Congress: National Ledger: Robert Novak says Chris Dodd is following his regular practice of attacking anti-Castro officials, having barred Senate confirmation of Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs and driven him from the government :
April 25, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Dominican Republic: Politics: Congress: Powerlineblog: Robert Novak blows the whistle on Senator Dodd's bogus claim that it is "rare indeed for me to express objection to a nominee."
Robert Novak blows the whistle on Senator Dodd's bogus claim that it is "rare indeed for me to express objection to a nominee."
Robert Novak blows the whistle on Senator Dodd's bogus claim that it is "rare indeed for me to express objection to a nominee."
Chris Dodd's long-term memory is better than his mid-term memory
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Novak also blows the whistle on Senator Dodd's bogus claim that it is "rare indeed for me to express objection to a nominee." According to Novak:
In truth, Dodd has been a serial objector to Republican nominees over the years. He has voted against Martin Feldstein (Council of Economic Advisers), James Watt (interior secretary), James Edwards (energy secretary), Raymond Donovan (labor secretary), William Clark (deputy secretary of state and interior secretary), Rex Lee (solicitor general), C. Everett Koop (surgeon general), Kenneth Adelman (arms control director), Edwin Meese (attorney general), Robert Gates (CIA director), Ted Olson (solicitor general), Porter Goss (CIA director), Alberto Gonzales (attorney general), and Supreme Court nominees William Rehnquist, Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He also opposed Bolton for his current under secretary of state position and kept the nomination of anti-Castroite Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state from even reaching the Senate floor.
Dodd, it is true, did not oppose the unsuccessful nomination of John Tower to be Defense Secretary under Bush I. However, as was Time Magazine speculated back then, this may well have due to the fact that, in 1967, Tower was one of only five Senators who voted not to censure Dodd's father, Thomas Dodd, for corruption.
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