firedoglake.com - 11/13/2008
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Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2009.
According to Greg Sargent , Howard Fineman is reporting that Obama has now expressed his clear support not only for Joe Lieberman staying in the caucus, but for retaining his Chairmanship of the Department of Homeland Security ...
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 ...
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
ap.google.com - 11/12/2008
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ap.google.com —
14 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Obama has
told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid he's not interested...
in seeing Democrats oust Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman from their ranks over his endorsement of Republican John McCain. Obama told Reid ...
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The Associated Press: Obama wants Lieberman to stay with ...
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Lieberman and Congressional Democrats Are on the Same Page
Comments from Left Field —
... to expand executive power and surveillance activities while destroying core constitutional liberties and checks and balances. He used his Chairmanship for only one purpose: to block oversight into Bush scandals and corruption. He has spouted the most defamatory attacks, not only against Barack Obama, but against war opponents generally. More significantly still, Democrats in his own state — his own constituents — ...
Jane Hamsher: Waxman Defeats Dingall, Blue Dogs Get Spanked
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... This week the Senate voted to remain an exclusive club of self-protection and entitlement by letting the corrupt Bush enabler Joe Lieberman keep his gavel, but the House voted for progress. ...
Jane Hamsher: Caroline Kennedy? Thanks But No Thanks
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... dreams of Camelot? I'm not quite sure. There's an enormous problem in the Senate right now with entitlement, with the sense that its members owe their allegiance to each other and not to the public. Witness Joe Lieberman's recent confirmation of Homeland Security Chairman, when Democratic Senators circled the wagons and helped him hold on to power -- despite the fact that he refused to hold hearings into the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and protected billions of dollars in contractor graft from being investigated. Nobody, ...
to the manor born
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda —
... resonates with me is this:
There’s an enormous problem in the Senate right now with
entitlement, with the sense that its members owe their allegiance to
each other and not to the public. Witness Joe Lieberman’s recent
confirmation of Homeland Security Chairman, when Democratic Senators
circled the wagons and helped him hold on to power — despite the fact
that he refused to hold hearings into the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and protected billions of dollars in contractor graft from being investigated. Nobody, including ...
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Giving Lieberman a pass?
dailykos.com 11/10/2008 — I've also heard from a Senate staffer that Obama has sent word that he wants Lieberman in the caucus. Now to be clear, the word isn't "let Lieberman chair Homeland Security", it's "keep him around". The logic is pretty obvious -- it allows Obama to ...
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dailykos.com 11/19/2008 — In the end, the Lieberman fight isn't entirely about Lieberman. Yes, people want to see consequences doled out for the perennially back-stabbing Senator who formed his own political party when his own Democratic voters voted him out, who used his ...
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
prospect.org 11/12/2008 — TAKE LIEBERMAN'S CHAIRMANSHIP. There's been a lot of discussion about Lieberman 's behavior during the election, from suggesting Obama might be a Marxist to accusing him of "not putting country first," to other assorted incidents in which Lieberman ...
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