firedoglake.com - 11/18/2008
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Howard Dean did a round of calls with bloggers today (including the Huffington Post and Greg Sargent ) trying to mollify everyone after it was announced that Joe Lieberman would retain his Homeland Security Chair.
On the call with me were John Aravosis , McJoan and Nate Silver . Here's a ...
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 ...
huffingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
DNC Chair Howard Dean welcomed the decision to
keep Senator Joseph Lieberman as head of the Homeland
Security Committee and, consequently, in the Democratic Caucus, saying the move was pragmatic, magnanimous and political shrewd. Speaking to the ...
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Dean Applauds Move To Keep Lieberman As Committee Chair
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 ...
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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.
Infighting We Can Believe In
The Next Right —
... to end the war, to stop the bailout and to stop the trampling of civil liberties, just to name a few off the top of my head. In fact, with their votes, they have aggressively worked to start and continue the war, pass the bailout and destroy our constitutional rights to privacy. So, are we really surprised that they have rewarded Joe Lieberman with a chairmanship that he can use to investigate the president he said poses a danger to America?
Jane Hamsher, on the phone with Howard Dean:
JANE HAMSHER: With ...
Remainders: Should Kristol stay?
Michael Calderone's Blog —
George Packer says it’s time the NYT ends the William Kristol experiment.
Kristol says he is “ambivalent.”
Chris Matthews allegedly bad mouths Hillary Clinton on a train somewhere between Philadelphia and Washington.
“Morning Joe” tops “American Morning.”
“Media malpractice” left voters uninformed.
Dean does the netroots media circuit.
Salon has a strange fixation with Michelle Obama.
Not long after Podesta vows ...
11/19: This One Stings
Blogometer —
... , 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 , ...
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