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This guy is negotiating with Vladimir Putin. Joe Biden on Thursday paid tribute to Senator Bob Dole in the Capitol Rotunda. Bob Dole passed away over the weekend at the age of 98 after a battle with cancer. Joe Biden and congressional leaders honored the late Senator at the US Capitol as Bob Dole lay in state. “We meet here in the very heart of American democracy… the Capitol of the United States of America to receive a hero of that democracy for a final time,” Biden said. “We’ve always found ways to come together. We could find that unity...

WASHINGTON -- Chris Dodd Wednesday got a bitter taste of what it's like to be a presidential candidate. First came the new Quinnipiac University national poll, taken about a month after the Connecticut Democrat declared his candidacy. He didn't even reach 1 percent. But the bigger blow came later in the day, when the Republican National Committee unleashed its first big blast of the 2008 campaign. "Meet Chris Dodd," it trumpeted in an e-mail sent around the country to GOP supporters and party officials. The headline branded him "a New England liberal, past his prime, on an unrealistic vanity run...

In a German interview, former President Jimmy Carter attacks almost everything President Bush is doing, both foreign and domestic. The U.S. has the reputation of being "the world's warmonger," Carter told Nelson. "We're the ones who sent troops to Lebanon," he complained. "We're the ones who bombed Tripoli. We're the ones that invaded Grenada. We're the ones that invaded Panama. We're the ones that orchestrated the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinistas. No other country has done that." Carter's four years in the White House were, of course, a disastrous failure, the highlights of which include: • The Soviet invasion...

WASHINGTON - Anticipating President Bush soon will appoint John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, a leading Democrat said Sunday that Bolton would go without the confidence of Congress. "He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility," said Sen. Christopher Dodd (news, bio, voting record), a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said Bush should think again before using a recess appointment to place Bolton at the United Nations while the Senate is on its traditional August break. "That's not what you want to send up, a person who doesn't have the confidence of the Congress and...

Did anyone see the report earlier today on Fox News when they replayed a March 2002 interview with Fritz Mondale? This is dynamite! He said "my public service career is over"..."I thought about running for the Senate this year if Paul Wellstone stepped down [recall that Wellstone had term-limited himself and then welshed on the pledge], and Joan and I talked about it, and we decided that it's time for new people to step up and lead"..."I do not desire to have any leadership role in the national Democratic Party"....etc. etc. He was VERY emphatic (and also looked VERY old...