(Cross-posted from Daily Kos.)

As DavidNYC noted in his Orange-to-Blue endorsement post of Jim Himes yesterday, Chris Shays has a history of pretending to be a "moderate" while voting again and again for Bush's policies.

This morning, Shays joined many in both parties in Congress by standing with Bush again on the FISA "compromise".

In fact, Chris Shays has been busy doing his best impersonation of a Blue Dog all week, voting for the war supplemental without timelines that passed yesterday before voting for the for the disastrous FISA bill that passed today.

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As The KickingDonkey informed us on the other day, George Bush traveled to Connecticut on Friday to raise money for David Cappiello, GOP challenger to CT-05 freshman Dem Chris Murphy. The event cost donors $1,000 a head and was held at the Kent, CT home of...wait for it...Henry Kissinger. Classic.

In good blogger style, the CT netroots made sure no one forgot that the exceptionally unpopular Mr. Bush was coming to town and so held a march against the war to protest his arrival. My Left Nutmeg covered it HERE with more pics HERE. Looks like a great turnout.

As for the fundraiser itself, helpfully, the CT Republican Party has provided its own documentary evidence of the event, although a few pictures seem to be missing. In a great catch by MattW, take a look at the CT GOP's Flickr photo stream, and you'll see there's a conspicuous gap of about 7 missing photos between the last shot of David Cappiello and the first picture of George Bush up on the stage with Kissinger. Hmm, why the scrubbing I wonder? Bizarrely, CT-04's Chris Shays, who co-chaired the event, doesn't seem to have the same compunction about appearing with Bush in public.

So to help make Shays, and Cappiello for that matter, regret embracing Mr. 28%, send them a message by supporting Murphy as well as Shays's excellent challenger, Jim Himes, over at Act Blue.

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This Friday, George W. Bush is coming to Henry Kissinger's house in Kent, Connecticut for an exclusive, $1000 a head ($10,000 for a snapshot with the President!) fundraiser for Republican Challenger David Cappiello (running against Democratic Freshman Representative Chris Murphy) in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District.  Bush ally and war cheerleader and health care bamboozler Chris Shays (R-CT04) (who is facing a strong challenge from Jim Himes) is a co-chair of the event.

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This weekend I'm going to start a prediction thread for every state participating in Super-Tuesday. This prediction thread will include winners and how much each candidate (Clinton/Obama) will win by in that particular state.

However, I'm going to predict my home-state of Connecticut since I understand the dynamics of this very liberal electorate. Today, we saw two key congressman Chris Murphy and (power broker) John Larson endorse Barack Obama. These endorsements are pivotal because local democrats have very favorable views of both these politicians and they will be significant helping out Gotv efforts. Also, Ned Lamont/Don Williams (State Senate Majority Leader) are hosting a rally at Uconn for Obama at the end of this week.

Furthermore, racial animosity will not play as a factor in this state's primary since this liberal electorate is by far one the most educated in the nation as well as white men being more open to voting for a minority candidate. These two factors will be significant to Obama's victory in Connecticut next Tuesday.

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