americablog.com - 11/13/2008
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We tend to be big Harry Reid fans here at AMERICAblog. Today, not so much. Harry Reid is about to kill any chance Democrats have at getting a 60-seat majority in the Senate. The irony is that Reid is accomplishing this by ensuring that Joe Lieberman stays in the Democratic caucus. How's that? ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/12/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
On Keith Olbermann's show last night, Howard Fineman
dropped a bit of a bomb, saying that Senator
Dick Durbin moving towards wanting Joe Lieberman to stay as chair of the Homeland Security Committee -- because he heard what Obama had to say about it. ...
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Fineman: Obama And Durbin Want Lieberman To Stay As ...
dailykos.com - 11/14/2008
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dailykos.com —
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/11-13. Likely voters.
MoE 4% ( 6/30-7/2 results) Do you approve or
disapprove of the job Joe Lieberman is doing as U.S. senator? Approve 36 (45) Disapprove 61 (43) If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held ...
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CT-Sen: Hatin' Joe in Connecticut
thehill.com - 11/13/2008
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thehill.com —
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) called on Sen. Joe
Lieberman (I-Conn.) to apologize for his attacks on Barack
Obama, saying doing so would temporarily let him retain a key chairmanship position next Congress. Bayh warned that stripping Lieberman of his ...
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Bayh: Lieberman should apologize, keep chairmanship
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Lieberman Allies Using Obama To Claim Support For Him Staying
TPM Election Central —
... and John Aravosis are now pressuring Senator Harry Reid to signal more forcefully to his fellow Senators that Lieberman should go. "No one is going to challenge their leader if he says that he absolutely wants Lieberman out," Aravosis wrote. "But Reid won't say that." ...
11/13: Netroots To Senate Dems: Stand Up For Yourselves!
Blogometer —
... and "hav[ing] no spine" . Lefty bloggers are especially critical of Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid , whom they consider weak and ineffectual. ...
Silly season.
Upper Left —
I know we're all a bit giddy with the election results, but some generally sensible folk around the left blogosphere really need to take some deep breaths. In the first of a few examples, Kevin Drum opines... The public face of his economic policy, after all, was almost entirely based on tax cuts, a distinctly conservative notion.Kevin, do you really want to cede that ground? What in the world is illiberal about tax cuts as such? Wouldn't a tax cut that's part of a program to increase the progressivity of the tax code be, well, progressive? Over at Best of the Blogs, Leftcoast is worried about Congressional ...
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Schumer: 60 'possible but unlikely' —
First Read 11/13/2008
From NBC's Abby LivingstonIn his mission to crush a GOP filibuster, DSCC Chairman Chuck Schumer feels the chance of 60 Democratic senators this cycle is “possible, but unlikely.”
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