crooksandliars.com - 11/18/2008
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Download | Play Download | Play Word from the bloggers present at this morning's press conference is that Joe Lieberman, despite his utter betrayal of Democrats during the just-finished election season, as well as his misfeasance as chair of the Homeland Security Committee, is ...
dailykos.com - 11/18/2008
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dailykos.com —
Jane Hamsher : Asked what it would mean
if Lieberman kept his chairmanship, one Senate Democratic aide...
said bluntly: "The left has been foiled again. They can rant and rage but they still do not put the fear into folks to actually change their ...
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google.com - 11/18/2008
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google.com —
1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Joe Lieberman
will keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security...
Committee despite hard feelings over his support for GOP nominee John McCain during the presidential campaign. The Connecticut independent will ...
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The Associated Press: McCain backer Lieberman keeps ...
firedoglake.com - 11/18/2008
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That's not the change we voted for
WTF Is It Now?!? —
The utter betrayal by Senate Dems: "We were all told to go screw ourselves." Spineless Dems tell all of us to suck it. Well, the feeling is mutual. Fuck you. Fuck all of fucking pussies. Take the fuck Lieberman pledge. Take him down.
NY Times Urges Bush Not To "Abuse Pardons"; Bill Kristol Urges Bush To Pardon Torturers And Wiretappers
Crooks and Liars —
... Not once. Not when he cheerleaded the Iraq invasion and lied about the reasons. Not when he cheerleaded Sarah Palin and led the campaign to get her on the GOP ticket. Not once in his weekly appearances on Pravda, er...FoxNews has he ever given even the slightest semblance of being right. And now he goes against his employers at the NY Times (Jeez, what does it take to fire a bloodthirsty, warmongering amoral Republican flack? Obviously as much as it does in the US Senate) to suggest that those who have violated every principle that was supposed to be the ...
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And then there were four?
washingtonmonthly.com 11/17/2008 — AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR?.... The Senate Democratic caucus will meet tomorrow to decide, among other things, what to do with Joe Lieberman. After a couple of weeks in which no one from the caucus was willing to say publicly...
How Joe Lieberman Kept His Post
huffingtonpost.com 11/19/2008 — On Tuesday, the Democratic Senate caucus decided to let Joe Lieberman retain his chairmanship atop the Homeland Security committee. But by the time the Connecticut independent's future came to a vote, the outcome was for all intents and purposes a ...
Today in The Nation: Lieberman Out?
thenation.com 11/12/2008 — Jane Hamsher A vote on the fate of Sen. Joe Lieberman is imminent. Some influential Democrats say he should lose his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship.
Maybe Lieberman can get the morning coffee or something
crooksandliars.com 11/8/2008 —
[Cartoon by Bob Englehart ]
Dana Bash at CNN reports that Holy Joe is unhappy about his looming and well-earned demotion, and is thinking about joining the Republican caucus:
A Senate Democratic source familiar with the meeting confirms that ...
Let Lieberman Live
tnr.com 11/15/2008 — On Tuesday, Democratic Senators will decide the political fate of Joe Lieberman. For the past several years, Lieberman has been a persistent thorn in their side--a relentless critic of Democratic attempts to end the war in Iraq and a no-less-vocal ...
Joe Lieberman: The Survivor
themoderatevoice.com 11/18/2008 — Joe Lieberman may have been a Democrat, he may now be an independent, and some progressive Democrats may think he is a closet Republican. But what is indisputable is that he is a survivor: he has come out of a meeting with Senate Democrats upset over ...
Lieberman
anonymousliberal.com 11/19/2008 — Let me preface what I'm about to say be making it clear that I think Joe Lieberman was shown far more leniency today that he should have been. He really should have lost his chairmanship, and had I been voting, that's what I would have voted for. That ...
Lieberman keeps committee chairmanship —
First Read 11/18/2008
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroDemocrats in Congress have allowed Joe Lieberman to hold onto his powerful chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee in a secret ballot vote. Majority Leader Harry Reid, however, asked the Connecticut senator to step ...
Lessons of the Lieberman saga —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/18/2008
The Democrats kept Sen. Joe Lieberman in the fold because politics is a game of addition and the magic number is 60: the number of senators needed to defeat a delaying motion or filibuster.
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