fivethirtyeight.com - 11/18/2008
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In a brief but candid and wide-ranging telephone interview with a selection of bloggers and new media journalists, former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean spoke frequently on themes of reconciliation and pragmatism, defended his party's decision to keep Joe Lieberman within its ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/18/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Howard Dean says that he's "fine" with the
Senate's decision not to kick Joe Lieberman off the
Homeland Security committee, because in his view it's what Barack Obama wanted. In a phone interview with me just after the vote concluded, I asked Dean ...
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Howard Dean Supports Senate's Lieberman Decision, Says ...
dailykos.com - 11/17/2008
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dailykos.com —
Roll Call (subscription only): When Senate Democrats meet
Tuesday to decide Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (ID-Conn.) fate, leaders
are expected to propose that he keep his gavel at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee but lose his ...
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digbysblog.blogspot.com - 11/17/2008
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digbysblog.blogspot.com —
Sunday, November 16, 2008 Losin' It by digby
The good news is that this country elected an
African American Democrat. The bad news is that it seems to have inspired an uptick in threats and violent rhetoric : That's true. They may be threats because ...
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Howard Dean defends Lieberman decision
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Just to give you an idea how invidious was the "punishment" meme, it even locked Howard Dean, netroots hero #1, into defending the decision : Dean suggested that the decision should be political rather than personal, indicating that while "certainly [he] had anger " over Lieberman's actions during the presidential campaign, there was little space for what he regarded as a punitive action . When pressed by Hamsher about Lieberman's qualifications to chair the Homeland Security Committee, Dean said that he hadn't examined Lieberman's credentials in detail: "I was too busy ...
11/19: This One Stings
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... great laugh about it just about now. Given how much he is hated by his constituents , he at least knows that the Senate Democratic caucus are a bunch of spineless asses utterly unwilling and unable to deliver the change the American people requested." LIEBERMAN III: Dean Tries To Bridge The Divide DNC Chair Howard Dean tried to mollify the netroots after the Senate vote by conducting a round of calls with liberal bloggers (including Hamsher , Joan McCarter , Nate Silver , and Greg Sargent ): Moulitsas mocks Dean's assertion that Dems ...
11/20: How Are Obama's Cabinet Picks Playing?
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... was the immediate cause of that decision. Conversely, Obama could probably have engineered the opposite result if he'd wanted. [...] In our interview with him yesterday , [DNC Chair] Howard Dean dropped some very strong hints about what Obama is up to. We should expect him to be as methodical and meticulous about spending his political capital as he was about spending his advertising dollars and his ground game resources during the campaign. One can debate whether the Democratic caucus was more likely to achieve certain progressive policy outcomes with or without Lieberman ...
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oliverwillis.com 11/11/2008 —
As Howard Dean prepares to step down as DNC Chairman, its worth remembering that when he started the right and much of the decaying party establishment insisted that his tenure would be counted in days or weeks, certainly not months. Democrats ...
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thehill.com 2/18/2009 — Several senior Senate Democrats have intensified their push for Howard Dean to become the next secretary of Health and Human Services, but the effort has run into what Dean allies call Democratic “family politics.” Senate Democratic heavyweights such ...
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voices.washingtonpost.com 11/10/2008 — Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan, left, watches as Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, speaks to a journalist at the National Press Club in Washington, Nov. 5, 2008. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press) By Chris ...
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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