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The Debate Vid Everyone's Talking About (CT-Sen)

by grannyhelen

...or will soon be talking about:

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TIME gives the entire back and forth leading up to Linda McMahon's "I have no comment":

McMahon: "It's a bad bill. We need to repeal it and we need to start over again."

Blumenthal: "This bill is a good start."

Blumenthal: "This bill recognizes some fundamental facts. No child in America should be denied health care because they are sick ... No American family should go bankrupt paying for health care."

Blumenthal: "But we need to do better in controlling costs ... we need to eliminate waste and fraud."

Blumenthal: "There is a certain irony in my opponent talking about health care reform, because she denies health insurance to the wrestlers."

McMahon: "You talked about the WWE contractors who don't have health coverage ... Indeed they do."

McMahon: "In the 28 years WWE has been in Connecticut, it has never been investigated or fined in relation to its contractors. And the only time it got investigated was just as this campaign got going."

Blumenthal: "As you well know, my jurisdiction is exclusively civil. The allegations against WWE seem to be criminal in nature. So it's no coincidence that my investigation has not covered them. I have no investigation, have not done an investigation, because allegations about independent contractors are investigated by the Department of Labor and the Department of Revenue Services. And I'd have no knowledge of that investigation. It's being conducted by the state."

link: http://thepage.time.com/2010/10/04/blumenthal-vs-mcmahon/#ixzz11UOa8G77

When given a chance to respond, Linda McMahon said to a crowd of nervous laughter: I have no comment.

Wow.

Out of all of the moments of this debate I believe this was the one that was most damaging to McMahon. Yes, going back and back and back to her minimum wage gaffe really injured her (vid of her actual remarks here: http://www.youtube.com/... ). Yes, she looked nervous and over her head at several moments during the debate. And yes, her flat performance really didn't live up to the expectations of gotcha moments and showmanship that many of us nutmeggers had going into last night's debate.

But talking herself into a corner where the only response she had left was "no comment"?

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