voices.washingtonpost.com - 26 days ago
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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 ...
thehill.com - 27 days ago
blogs.abcnews.com - 25 days ago
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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
mahablog.com - 27 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.”
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Deeper Into The Village
TalkLeft —
Ezra Klein digs deeper: [T]hose primary challenges also broke whatever historical or pragmatic attachment Lieberman and Specter had to their traditional political homes. [. . .] Lieberman endorsed McCain and will likely vote, and maybe even filibuster, against health-care reform. Heterodox as he was, neither was likely before Lamont's challenge. (Emphasis supplied.) I'll ignore the disingenuous goal post moving by Ezra (he wrote this the first time - "Look at the Senate right now: If Democrats [. . .] fall short, it’s likely ...
Yet More on Lieberman
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... 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 argued, the primary forced Lieberman to find an electoral coalition that was far more right wing than the one he had previously assembled, and it's natural that he'd be more responsive to that coalition after the election. But as Beinart suggests, politicians aren't simply vote-seeking automatons. It's not surprising that ...
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