Christopher Shays and his "noble venture" and his "regrets"

[Skidmore]

The hearing on costs of the Iraq war from last Tuesday is replaying on CSPAN now. Shays sits there and goes on and on about how noble a venture this war was, regardless of the bad intelligence and the ginning up of the war machine by * and Rummy. Then he goes on to say that his greatest regret really is not being able to contain the costs. In his regrets, his focus in on the widgets of war, and you would think this war has been bloodless for him.

[JI7]

1. not sure many would agree with me here

but i would rather go after him in the election than Lieberman. or at least rather have the focus and effort put into getting rid of Lieberman on Shays instead.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Does one exclude the other? It's either or? nt

[ProSense]

3. Conn. Dem counts on Iraq to unseat Shays (March)

March 7, 2006

Conn. Dem counts on Iraq to unseat Shays

By Jonathan E. Kaplan

Republican Rep. Christopher Shays’s likely Democratic opponent, Diane Farrell, challenged the Connecticut congressman last week to debate President Bush’s Iraq policy at some point in the next month.

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“Chris has been carrying the president’s water since the beginning and accusing people of politicizing Iraq if they’re critical. Chris needs to account for his position,” she added.

Shays replied to Farrell’s challenge in a statement saying that he had just finished holding 20 community meetings “during which he did exactly what suggests and had a very open and good dialogue with constituents on and many other important issues.”

“There will be plenty of opportunity for debates in the fall,” Shays’s campaign manager said.

Farrell, replying in a statement, shot back: “It is unfortunate that Chris is choosing to hide in Washington, D.C., behind President Bush … instead of meeting me for an honest discussion about our very deep differences on the Iraq war. The people who lose out with Chris’s refusal to this debate are the people of the 4th District.”

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Campaign/030706_shays.html

[CTyankee]

4. I love Diane Farrell

She's a smart, articulate, up and coming Dem, and she is VERY strongly pro-choice. Chris Shays believed the nonsense about "partial birth abortion" or at least pretended to believe it to cover his ass with fellow repubs.

The hell with him. I hope she wins.

[sendero]

5. I like the way she talks..

... probably time to get out the checkbook for CT again! :)

[Kahuna]

6. I cannot STAND Chris Shays. He is as clueless as they come. He..

actually believed the budget estimate of $412 billion released by the WH??? He was actually surprised when the budget guy said they initially estimated it at around 300 billion. Then he hammered the budget guy into saying they originally had numbers that were higher than the 300 billion so that the white house lies wouldn't be exposed. What a tool.