Hot Air » Richard Blumenthal http://hotair.com The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Mon, 20 May 2013 17:21:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Blumenthal: Nothing in the current gun bill would have prevented Newtown http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/01/blumenthal-nothing-in-the-current-gun-bill-would-have-prevented-newtown/ http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/01/blumenthal-nothing-in-the-current-gun-bill-would-have-prevented-newtown/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:41:52 +0000 Ed Morrissey http://hotair.com/?p=252457

No kidding.

A rare moment of clarity arose during yesterday’s State of the Union interview with Senator Richard Blumenthal, after Candy Crowley challenged the gun-control advocate on the usefulness of the gun-control bill making its way through the Senate at the moment, which Blumenthal admits — implicitly, if not explicitly — would have done nothing to stop [...]

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Reserving judgment.

Another Democrat refused to offer a vote of confidence in Defense nominee Chuck Hagel yesterday.  Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that he wants to “reserve judgment” on Hagel, and expressed disappointment with colleagues who have immediately and irrevocably decided on their positions without first hearing from Hagel.  However, Blumenthal has [...]

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No "mass exodus" for Obama's second term.

As the New York Post predicted last week, Attorney General Eric Holder will not leave the Obama administration at the start of Barack Obama’s second term — but he won’t be sticking around too much longer than that. The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday and Fox News confirmed last night that Holder will stay [...]

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