There are a lot of reasons to have a low opinion of Sen. Chris
Dodd -- his liberal agenda, general smugness, and sweetheart
mortgage deals from Countrywide, just to name a few. But he
may have reached a new low today.
Responding to Republican criticism about Democrats' crafting the
health care bill in closed door meetings, Dodd tried to reference
the film Casablanca. He started off by referring to the
main setting of the film as "Nick's Café." (I'm sorry Sen. Dodd,
but Bogart
wasn't running a Greek diner.) Then he badly mangled his
attempt to quote Claude Rains' famous line.
Here was Dodd, on the Senate floor moments ago:
“It’s that old line of Claude Rains, from the famous movie of
Casablanca, walking into Nick’s Café. He looked around
with Humphrey Bogart standing there and said, ‘Is there
gambling going on in here?’ Shocked to believe such a thing. Is
politics going on in the Senate? Yes it is.”
In the interest of redeeming the memory of Rains, here's the
actual clip from the movie:
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