And check out who it is: This week, John’s exclusive guests are Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) LIVE from Jerusalem. We’ll get their insight on the foiled airline terror plot and President Obama’s strategy on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. As Benen points out: Hmm, McCain and Lieberman, talking together […]
Well everything except for minor things like trying to pressure Joe Lieberman into it: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted once more that President Obama did everything he could to get a public option through the Senate, even if the administration never talked to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) about his opposition to the provision. […]
Was this any shock? One day after he single-handedly killed off a provision to expand Medicare, Sen. Joseph Lieberman is still not promising to support the Democratic health reform bill — though he told reporters Tuesday that he is getting closer. I hope the progressives out there who keep saying “well this is better than […]
What a bunch of useless fucking cowards: Senate Democrats emerged from a special caucus meeting Monday night determined to pass a health-care bill by Christmas — but without the Medicare buy-in plan that liberals had sought as an alternative to a government insurance option. The Medicare buy-in was never warmly embraced by moderate Democrats, but […]
To none other than John McCain: Sen. John McCain, trying to keep momentum in this state’s critical Republican primary race, brought in something unusual on Monday — an endorsement from the other party. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, said he was intending to wait until after the primaries to make a […]
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy: Contributions from associates and friends of now-indicted garbage executive James Galante to the 2004 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman have sparked the interest of federal investigators. Lieberman’s bid for the White House took in at least $14,000 from Galante, his associates and their relatives in the fall […]
The heat is getting turned up: U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record) should bow out of the November’s congressional race altogether after his defeat in Connecticut’s Democratic primary, a top Democrat said on Sunday. Lieberman, a three-term senator and Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000, lost to political newcomer Ned Lamont in Connecticut […]
Christy has a post up that says the DSCC will support whoever wins the primary in Connecticut: Boltin’ Joe is waking up to some startling news this morning — guess all those call arounds to party elders didn’t go a smoothly as Lieberman tried to spin them yesterday. When you decide to try and game […]
Reuters has a nice article up about the challenge Joe Lieberman is facing this year: After years of ardent support for the Iraq war, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman could become that conflict’s first big political casualty in a Democratic primary race fueled by rising anti-war anger. Lieberman, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2000, faces […]
Joe Lieberman: Loves Our Leader; Hates Grandmothers Keeping America Safe from Raging Grannies Domestic spying on anti-war groups forces ACLU into action ( via The People’s Republic of Seabrook) It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in […]