Thank you Chris Dodd!

I am a pure political junkie.  No doubt about it.  What I am not though, is an exercise in the morning junkie.  No doubt about that either.  So when the alarm went off at 5:45 this morning, I searched for every reason why I could just roll over and go back to sleep and it would be a good thing.  And then I picked up my phone and saw the CNN Breaking News email saying that Chris Dodd was retiring.  ZOINKS!  This meant I had to get up and go to the gym so I could watch Morning Joe and find out the skinny.

So thank you Chris Dodd -- because you were most likely to lose your re-election bid and thus decided to give up -- I got to the gym!