voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/13/2008
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Will Joe Lieberman's endorsement of John McCain cost him politically? Photo by Matt Rourke of the Associated Press Nine days after a presidential election in which he actively supported Republican John McCain, the fate of Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/14/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Okay, we now have a second Senator who's
stepped up and joined Senator Patrick Leahy in calling...
on Democrats to boot Joe Lieberman from his plum slot atop the Homeland Security committee. Bernie Sanders, also of Vermont, sent us a hard-hitting ...
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Bernie Sanders Joins Leahy In Demanding Ouster Of ...
thinkprogress.org - 11/16/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
After Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) spoke at the
Republican National Convention this summer, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)...
expressed his frustration: “ Everybody is just profoundly disappointed with what Joe did ,” Dorgan said. Today on Fox News Sunday, ...
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Dorgan: Lieberman’s Actions Were ‘Unacceptable’ For ...
dailykos.com - 11/14/2008
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dailykos.com —
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/11-13. Likely voters.
MoE 4% ( 6/30-7/2 results) Do you approve or...
disapprove of the job Joe Lieberman is doing as U.S. senator? Approve 36 (45) Disapprove 61 (43) If the 2012 election for U.S. Senate were held ...
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CT-Sen: Hatin' Joe in Connecticut
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Marc Ambinder [hearts] Joe Lieberman
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza took a parallel tact at religitimizing Lieberman today. Cillizza suggested that Lieberman only "to a certain extent" may have crossed the line in his criticism of Obama. Well, Lieberman suggested that Obama had ties to terrorists, said that Obama tried to cut the money off for our troops (essentially leaving them to die, as good America-hating guys with the middle name Hussein like to do), he said Obama would harm our national security, and he called Obama a "celebrity." Oh yeah, and he was the keynote speaker at the other guy's ...
What to do about Joe Lieberman? (update 3)
The Reaction —
... Security chairmanship for Lieberman. Let's hope Leahy's colleagues agree. Think Progress has the audio of Leahy's remarks, which were picked up by Kos diarist terjeanderson. For more, see MyDD's Josh Orton: "Leahy nails it: in any normal world, it makes perfect sense for Lieberman to lose his chairmanship of such a powerful committee. But this is Lieberworld, where comity always comes first, and bad faith is ignored willfully." I don't know about you, ...
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huffingtonpost.com 11/19/2008 — On Tuesday, the Democratic Senate caucus decided to let Joe Lieberman retain his chairmanship atop the Homeland Security committee. But by the time the Connecticut independent's future came to a vote, the outcome was for all intents and purposes a ...
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dailykos.com 11/17/2008 — Roll Call (subscription only): When Senate Democrats meet Tuesday to decide Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (ID-Conn.) fate, leaders are expected to propose that he keep his gavel at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee but lose his ...
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tnr.com 11/15/2008 — On Tuesday, Democratic Senators will decide the political fate of Joe Lieberman. For the past several years, Lieberman has been a persistent thorn in their side--a relentless critic of Democratic attempts to end the war in Iraq and a no-less-vocal ...
Lieberman Whip Counting
openleft.com 11/11/2008 — Quite a few different interpretations of Obama's statement on Lieberman are floating around. Josh Orton's reading is best supported by the actual text, and also by Josh's experience in Reid's office. Either way, the statement is made, can't be unmade, ...
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