A Dream About Chris Dodd

I had a dream about Chris Dodd last night. I dreamed that I read an article in which Dodd announced that he would be dropping out of the presidential campaign. I dreamed that Dodd announced that the reason for his withdrawal was a lack of adequate campaign donations.

I also, in my dream, remember thinking that this official explanation didn’t add up, and that it was, rather, the complete failure of the Democrats in Congress to revoke any aspect of the Military Commissions Act that had led Chris Dodd to conclude that there was no reason for his presidential campaign to continue.

Senator Dodd’s campaign had originally been based upon Restore-Habeas.org, with its drive to pass the Restoring the Constitution Act. That has recently been replaced with the watered down Habeas Corpus Restoration Act, which only addresses the revocation of habeas corpus, and not the other abuses of the Military Commissions Act.

Even that watered down legislation has failed, and last week, Harry Reid announced he wouldn’t even try to defend an amendment which might restore habeas corpus in some small ways, because it wasn’t his top priority any more.

In such circumstances, why wouldn’t Chris Dodd, whose presidential campaign was premised on the idea that Democrats would be up in arms about Republican attacks on American liberty, drop out? Most Democrats, in Congress and out in the rank and file, seem to care more about whether the new Bionic Woman television series is worth watching.

The dream seemed so real that, when I woke up this morning, I got online to see if Chris Dodd really had dropped out. It seems that he has not. Can Dodd, however, be long in this race without any hope that American liberty will be restored by the Democratic Congress?