It seemed like a pretty straight-forward question a woman asked Connnecticut Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Chris Dodd at a meet-and-greet at the Redhook Ale Brewery at the Pease Tradeport Thursday: What are you going to do to lower health care costs?
The long-time Senator launched into his "answer" using phrases like "We're going to have to take a look at Medicare" and "We're going to have to start talking about" something else.
When it was noted that these were not new issues, that he had been a Senator for a long time without finding a real solution to escalating health costs and the question was posed as to what new he would be bringing to the table as president, Dodd countered with a list of health care-related bills he had sponsored and passed, such as the medical leave act and infant screening program.
"When you ask what I would do, you have to take into consideration what I have done," he said.
In the end, he never answered the woman's question, but instead insisted the real power lay, as he put it, "In the Oval Office."
Gee, and we thought it was the Congress that passed the laws that the president could either sign or veto and that Congress could even override a presidential veto if it had its act together.
I think Dodd's response could rightfully be called "The Connecticut Two-Step."
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