Dick Blumenthal's friend-of-the-working-man campaign strategy has him railing, once again, against "Washington insiders."
"People just think Washington isn't working for them," Blumenthal told the CT Mirror. "It's preoccupied with the special interests. It's gridlocked by partisan acrimony. Washington isn't listening, and Washington isn't working for ordinary people."
The state's most prominent Washington insider says he wasn't troubled by Blumenthal's populist bashing. "No, I understand politics,'' Chris Dodd told the Mirror's Mark Pazniokas.
But another guy named Chris is taking umbrage on Dodd's behalf.
"Now [Blumenthal] takes issue with Sen. Chris Dodd, who has afforded Blumenthal every courtesy and political consideration,'' Healy wrote in a late-night email to reporters, reacting to Pazniokas' piece.
"Even when Blumenthal upstaged Dodd during the latter's withdrawal from reelection, Sen. Dodd never complained. Dick Blumenthal couldn't wait to announce. He wouldn't allow Sen. Dodd to have his day. Chris Dodd continues to give Blumenthal a pass for bad manners and a lack of conviction."
"Even when Blumenthal upstaged Dodd during the latter's withdrawal from reelection, Sen. Dodd never complained. Dick Blumenthal couldn't wait to announce. He wouldn't allow Sen. Dodd to have his day. Chris Dodd continues to give Blumenthal a pass for bad manners and a lack of conviction."
Healy never seemed to be much of a Chris Dodd fan but politics makes strange bedfellows.