seminal.firedoglake.com - 21 days ago
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Ezra Klein thinks that the reason Joe Lieberman is an unprincipled opportunist is not because he was always an unprincipled opportunist and Democrats in Connecticut wanted to replace him. No, it’s because those foolish liberals made him go bad :
Look at the Senate right now: If ...
thehill.com - 23 days ago
mahablog.com - 22 days ago
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mahablog.com —
There’s word today that Senator Lieberman is saying
he won’t join a Republican filibuster of the health...
care bill after all. Harry Reid and Lieberman have reached a “private understanding” on the matter, Alexander Bolton says at The Hill. Steve Benen says that in fact ...
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“Lieberman is totally insincere.”
blogs.abcnews.com - 20 days ago
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports: It is protest
day, for the Left and the Right, on Capitol...
Hill. First out of the gate - 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning. Protesters ...
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Protesters Arrested at Lieberman's Office
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Primary challenges
Ezra Klein —
... My hunch is that this isn't an entirely good-faith reading of my post on primary challenges, but to be clear: It can be the case that party activists were right to challenge Joe Lieberman and Arlen Specter and that those primary challenges pushed Lieberman and Specter further away from their parties. ...
Yet More on Lieberman
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... There are two ways of reacting to this argument. On the one side, you can treat it as an accusation that liberals are "to blame" for Lieberman's lurch to the right. The altogether more sensible way to take it is that the campaign to unseat Lieberman by supporting Ned Lamont had the foreseeable consequence of pushing Lieberman to the right if he managed to win anyway. As Ezra ...
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themoderatevoice.com 25 days ago — The style book says elected politicians be identified by abbreviations of their political party and state after their names which is why I find it rather amusing that Sen. Joe Lieberman is (I-Conn).
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huffingtonpost.com 28 days ago — Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any health care reform bill that has a public option -- even the version with the "trigger" ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 28 days ago — LIEBERMAN VOWS TO FILIBUSTER BILL WITH PUBLIC OPTION.... He's with Democrats on everything except foreign policy? I don't think so. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told reporters today that he would in fact filibuster any health care bill he doesn't agree...
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