politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/5/2008
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(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will likely meet later this week with Joe Lieberman to discuss whether the Democrat-turned-Independent will be stripped of his Senate committee chairmanship, a senior Democratic leadership aide tells CNN.
Lieberman currently chairs the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
This aide says that Reid, who is calling the meeting, [...]
huffingtonpost.com - 11/6/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Bolstered by a newly expanded majority, Harry Reid
met with Joe Lieberman on Thursday to sketch out...
the conditions by which the Connecticut independent could continue to caucus with Senate Democrats. But Lieberman did not accept Reid's initial ...
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Lieberman Meets With Reid, Tries To Cling To Senate ...
thinkprogress.org - 11/4/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
With the possibility that Democrats might soon gain
a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, Joe Lieberman...
(I-CT) has been openly flirting with thoughts of voting with his conservative colleagues . Last week, ThinkProgress noted that prominent ...
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Lieberman: ‘I Fear’ That ‘America Will Not Survive’ If ...
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com - 11/6/2008
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campaignsilo.firedoglake.com —
Reid and Lieberman won't say what happened in
the meeting. My guess? Reid told him he can...
stay in the caucus if he steps down from his committee chairmanship (a campaign we started shortly after the 2006 election, thanks to everyone ...
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Lieberman After Meeting with Reid - Video
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Democrats unsure what to do about Lieberman
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... Seriously, I can't even believe we're having this discussion. What kind of spineless party are we, that we're even discussing whether Lieberman should be punished. Let's review Lieberman's crimes: ...
ThinkFast: November 5, 2008
Think Progress —
... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will likely meet with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) later this week to discuss whether he “will be stripped of his Senate committee chairmanship,” according to a senior Democratic leadership aide. The aide says that Reid “has not yet decided what to do,” but that there is “lingering anger among Senate Democrats over Lieberman’s Republican convention speech.” ...
Lieberman and bygones
Political Animal —
... Obama as having tried to undermine U.S. troops. Lieberman and Harry Reid are scheduled to meet sometime this week. We'll see what happens.— ...
When Harry Met Nancy
N/A —
Do the Right Thing, Harry, and let my Joey go.
Lieberman: What? You Guys Won? I Didn't Mean All Those Things! Really!!
Crooks and Liars —
... stronger and safer. I pledge to work with President-elect Obama and his incoming Administration in their efforts to reinvigorate our economy and keep our nation secure and free."
While I'm trying to get into the spirit of Obama's hope for a post-partisan presidency, can I be allowed this one small, deeply partisan moment and demand the Senate leadership kick this sorry ass out of the Democratic caucus once and for all?
Lieberman is supposed to meet with Harry Reid later this week. Once upon a time, Reid was insisting that Lieberman was ...
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Reid: What Lieberman Did Was "Improper" And "Wrong"
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/7/2008 — Harry Reid ratchets up the public rhetoric on Joe Lieberman:
"Joe Lieberman has done something that I think was improper, wrong, and I'd like if we weren't on television, I'd use a stronger word of describing what he did," Reid told CNN's John ...
Reid: Lieberman did something 'improper'
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/7/2008 — Reid is torn over Lieberman.
(CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made clear Friday he's not happy with Joe Lieberman over the onetime Democrat's avid support of John McCain's White House bid, but told CNN the Connecticut independent has ...
Harry Reid Plays it Smart
redstate.com 11/6/2008 — He Won't Make a Martyr of Lieberman -- At Least Not Yet
Harry Reid has met with
Senator Joe Lieberman to discuss Lieberman's place in the
Democratic conference. And instead of stripping him of his
committee chairmanship, the two are expected to ...
Letters to Harry Reid: Joe Must Go
boldprogressives.org 10/30/2008 — Today, the Hill reports : One Democratic source said Lieberman is not likely to lose his position in the Democratic caucus, even if the party picks up several seats in next week's election... "There's no sense in cutting off our nose to spite our ...
Reid and Lieberman have a chat
washingtonmonthly.com 11/6/2008 — REID AND LIEBERMAN HAVE A CHAT.... Joe Lieberman's fate remains very much in the air. Nico Pitney reports: Bolstered by a newly expanded majority, Harry Reid met with Joe Lieberman on Thursday to sketch out the conditions by which the...
Lieberman: Time to come together
democraticunderground.com 11/5/2008 — Source: [b]CNN[/b]
November 5, 2008
Lieberman: Time to come together
Posted: 01:29 PM ET
From CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
Lieberman says put partisanship aside.
(CNN) Democrat-turned-independent Joe Lieberman, one of John McCain's biggest Senate ...
Hard Choices And Challenges Follow Triumph —
Wash Post In Congress 11/5/2008
After a victory of historic significance, Barack Obama will inherit problems of historic proportions. Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated at the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 has a new president been confronted with the challenges ...
More Lieberman-McConnell talks —
First Read 11/7/2008
From NBC's Ken Strickland Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman have been talking, according to McConnell's spokesman. While the spokesman couldn't give details of the conversation, McConnell and ...
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