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What happened to all those Democrats for McCain?

 

Published 1/7/2009 by Christopher Beam at (Obsolete Feed)

When Joe Lieberman returned to the Senate after Election Day, the question among many Democrats was not whether he would be punished but how. Some colleagues thought he should be stripped of his committee chairmanships. Others advocated booting him from the caucus entirely. Bloggers on the left all but proposed that he be tarred and feathered, live on C-SPAN. Ultimately, Lieberman got off with a slap on the wrist. [ more ... ] (link)

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