boston.com - 11/19/2008
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Senator Joe Lieberman, who angered many Democrats by publicly and enthusiastically backing Republican John McCain for president, kept his committee chairmanship yesterday after Senate Democrats declared that punishment was less important than unity.
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washingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
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2 Democrats to Submit Compromise on Lieberman
news.yahoo.com - 11/18/2008
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AP - Sen. Joe Lieberman appears increasingly likely
to hold onto his prized chairmanship of the Senate...
Homeland Security Committee as he meets Tuesday with Democratic colleagues unhappy over his vocal support for GOP nominee John McCain during this ...
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Lieberman may keep prized Homeland chairmanship
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Obama's Art Of War
BAGnewsNotes —
... for disloyalty on the Senate floor), and yesterday, he finished him off with the carrot. In allowing Lieberman to retain his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee after Lieberman played footman to McCain and banged away at Obama for months, Lieberman stays in the Democratic fold but in a severely weakened and dependent state. ...
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Obama's Art Of War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... for disloyalty on the Senate floor), and yesterday, he finished him off with the carrot. In allowing Lieberman to retain his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee after Lieberman played footman to McCain and banged away at Obama for months, Lieberman stays in the Democratic fold but in a severely weakened and dependent state. ...
Damned Democrats
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... Lieberman is not peeing all over us! A new bipartisan sun is shining! His “punishment [is] less important than unity!” Hoo hah! Now everybody can be united! Except Lieberman! ...
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Who was Lieberman before Lieberman was Lieberman?
dailykos.com 11/22/2008 — Before there was The Lieberman Vote, there was The Peterson Vote. Don't remember The Peterson Vote? The link to the original article in The Hill no longer works, but here's a link to a key blockquote from Daily Kos coverage: Rep. Collin Peterson ...
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