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The Democratic Party announced this spring a major drive to elect a “filibuster-proof” 60-seat-majority Senate. According to the recent Democratic National Committee newsfeeds, the DNC is confident of picking up six seats and hopeful of getting nine. Will that make a Democratic-controlled Senate “filibuster-proof?”

Good grief. Lieberman: McCain draws the line at using Rev. Wright. "Wallace asked Lieberman if McCain would bring up Rev. Jeremiah Wright after condemning state Republican parties for running ads criticizing Obama for his relationship with the controversial figure." "Lieberman responded: “He [McCain] didn’t like that approach. Senator McCain feels that same way about bringing up Reverend Wright through his campaign. And that’s the kind of line drawing that I think John McCain is all about.” "Later on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume said the McCain camp would be “out of their mind” to not bring up Obama’s relationship with...

As the nation shuddered upon hearing the gruesome details of Wall Street conniving and how working-class taxpayers would pay the price, John McCain temporarily suspended his campaign to go to Washington. McC strode the halls of Congress working to out-maneuver Dodd/Pelosi/Frank/Reid. So far so good. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came up with a cockamamie bailout that he claimed would end up making money for the US Treasury. However, backroom Democrats connived to siphon off any repayment of the people’s money back to the treasury by adding one small inocuous line to the agreement----a line that would end up stealing money...

Joe Lieberman, who has been campaigning tirelessly for John McCain, will be on the Michael Medved show this hour (1pm PST) to discuss why John is now attending the debate and what the plan is.

I didn’t hear it personally, but I have it from a reliable source, that Sen. Joe Lieberman told Sean Hannity the following on the radio this afternoon. SEN LIEBERMAN: [Laughs]. Yeah, I mean it is true, it’s odd in terms of the typical stereotypes of the two parties. Senator McCain I’m not saying hasn’t gotten some money from Wall Street but the major recipient of the contributions from Wall Street executives and employees has been Sen. Obama. I’m disappointed, I think this is a great act of leadership by John McCain, this is the guy I’ve come to know and...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Local Democrats debated a resolution Wednesday to censure Sen. Joe Lieberman. One of the creators of the resolution called Lieberman's speech at the Republican National Convention the final straw. Audrey Blondin introduced a resolution to the Democratic State Central Committee that would censure Lieberman and ask him to resign. "It upsets me, it angers me," Blondin said. "I feel that Democrats have one set of positions, Republicans have another, and that if you are a Democrat, you should be supporting the Democratic ideals and positions." While some in attendance cheered Blondin on, others called the resolution a...

Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut Democrats are considering whether to ask Sen. Joe Lieberman to leave the party for speaking at the Republicans' convention and backing GOP presidential nominee John McCain. The party scheduled a debate Wednesday night on a resolution that would censure Lieberman and ask the veteran politician to resign from the Democratic Party. Lieberman was re-elected to the Senate as an independent after losing the Democratic primary in 2006 to businessman Ned Lamont, but while he calls himself an "independent Democrat" in the Senate he remains a registered Democrat and has said he has no plans to...

On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps in to break the tie to make Republican Sarah Palin his successor. "Wow," said longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess. "Wow, that would be amazing, wouldn't it?" "If this scenario ever happened, it would be like a scene from the movie 'Scream' for Democrats," said Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh. "The only thing worse for the Democrats than losing...

NOTE Lieberman announced January 13, 2003, that he was running for president in 2004. But after poor showings in the February 3 primaries, Lieberman dropped out of the race. Senator says he never called for re-examination of Roe v. Wade(CNN) -- Presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman worked to clarify his position on abortion rights after a 2003 article was published that said the Democratic presidential candidate believes abortion laws should be re-examined in the wake of improved medical science. The article was published Friday and posted on the Web site of The Union Leader of Manchester, New Hampshire, under the...

Despite it all, Sen. Joe Lieberman still considers himself a Democrat. "I do, I do," he said in an interview Monday. "Though I'm a disappointed Democrat because the Democratic Party has left some of the fundamental policies that it followed, not only when I joined it when President Kennedy was the leader of the party, but frankly just eight years ago, when President Clinton was the leader of the party. I'm talking about a willingness to reform." Lieberman, a longtime Connecticut senator who was the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee, was in Las Vegas on Monday to campaign for the...

"...McCain is neither a liberal nor quite a conservative. McCain is an honor politician--aggressive in opposing corruption, hypersensitive to inauthenticity or dishonesty, addicted to big causes, essentially uninterested in what most conservatives take to be the substance of politics," which tends to tax-cutting, or family-values crusades. McCain believes in small government and he is pro-life, or rather he prefers these views to their opposite numbers, and he can be relied on to back them. But the singular passion that a Grover Norquist pours into tax cuts, or a right to life activist pours into his movement, is channeled in McCain's...

As recently as eight years ago, when the Clinton-Gore administration ended, a bipartisan consensus existed among Democrats and Republicans in favor of free trade, which leaders of both parties recognized was in America's economic interest.Now, unfortunately, the consensus has unraveled, with most Democrats in Congress opposing key free trade agreements with some of our closest allies and Sen. Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, threatening anti-trade policies if elected. This reversal is very disappointing for many reasons, not least because it is Democratic progressives who should be the strongest champions of free trade. There is a reason that Democratic presidents from...

Videos that Incite Violence Will Be Banned WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Thursday hailed Google's decision to strengthen the standards required for videos to appear on YouTube - a move taken in direct response to the Senator's complaints about violent Islamist videos that have been posted on the popular website. Google's community guidelines for YouTube will now bar videos that incite violence, in addition to videos that contain hate speech and gratuitous violence. "YouTube was being used by Islamist terrorist organizations to recruit and train followers via the Internet and to incite terrorist attacks around the world,...

New York Post9/27/00 DEVLIN BARRETT Candidate 2000 Al Gore said that gay foreigners in a "civic union" with US citizens should have the same immigration rights as heterosexual married couples. "The rights that are afforded an American who gets married to someone from another country should be afforded under a legally protected civic union in the same way," Gore said. The Democratic presidential candidate's proposed policy shift would be blocked under the Defense of Marriage Law signed 1996.....for all federal purposes, including immigration, marriage is defined as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife."...

EXCERPT Senator Obama did the safe and boring thing. He tapped Joe Biden for his running mate......all agree that what Obama has ended up with is a man who amplifies many of Obama’s weaknesses and illuminates others in an unflattering way. The Wall Street Journal called Biden “Obama’s Cheney” – which reminds Obama’s prospective supporters of a weak president with a grown-up vice president. Biden shares some of Obama’s weaknesses – vanity, a love of his own voice, a tendency to indulge in the kind of petty political corruption that he denounces in others. .....to some, Biden’s intellectual mediocrity will...

Washington — What is the Senate majority leader to do with renegade Sen. Joseph Lieberman? Washington has been in knots this week over the status of Lieberman, the independent Democrat, who infuriated his Democratic colleagues with a speech critical of their presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, at the Republican National Convention. Would Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid strip Lieberman of his committee chairmanship? Should he? Or should Reid try to keep Lieberman in the Democratic fold, and protect his majority in the Senate, in the face of potential overtures from Republicans for Lieberman to switch parties? The drama hit a...

Lieberman: Table for one, please Harry Reid's office is denying what they call a "false" Roll Call story claiming the Majority Leader and increasingly ostracized Joe Lieberman "agreed" to a deal that the Connecticut Independent will "no longer attend Democrats' weekly caucus lunches or the biweekly chairmen's lunches used to formulate policy." But they're not denying the gist-- that Lieberman will no longer be eating his egg salad in the party's inner sanctum. The statement from Reid spokesman Jim Manley: "While it is no secret that the Democratic caucus is disappointed in Senator Lieberman's attacks on Senator Obama, the irresponsible...

Many years ago, Joseph Lieberman was a devout Jew. He refused to campaign on Saturday, as to not break the Sabbath. And he promised to be a defender of life, going so far as to tell the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hartford that he was morally obligated to support his senate campaign over the pro-abortion Lowell Weicker. Sadly, Lieberman has become a rubber-stamp, knee-jerk liberal on nearly every issue which has come before the Senate in his many years in office, including voting in perfect lock step with the most rabid pro-abortion activists. Christians and Jews share a belief in...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Democrat-turned-independent Joe Lieberman skipped Senate Democrats' weekly caucus luncheon Tuesday and will not attend them for a while after angering many Democrats by criticizing their presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama. The Connecticut senator was Democrat Al Gore's vice presidential running mate in 2000, but he endorsed Republican John McCain in this year's contest. Lieberman said through a spokesman that he has an informal policy of skipping the lunches when presidential politics or the Iraq war will be discussed.

The Barack Obama campaign in Florida, targeting the Jewish vote in a state which has proven crucial in recent presidential campaigns, has launched a new strategy to mobilize hundreds of community leaders in support of the Democratic ticket. Recent polls have shown the state and its 27 electoral votes - a tenth of the 270 needed for victory in November - leaning Republican. But a Rasmussen poll released on Monday showed Obama even with John McCain 48 percent of the vote each. Florida's Jewish population, 650,000 in a state of some 18 million people, is one of the largest in...

Human Events Editorial August 11, 2006 Lieberman voted AGAINST protecting US military personnel from Int'l Criminal Court prosecutions. Lieberman scored a perfect 0% ACU rating. He voted six separate times to advance partial-birth abortion.Giuliani got Liberal Party endorsement in 1989 b/c he opposes school prayer, and supports amnesty, gay rights, gun control (and abortion on demand with the govt picking up the tab). Lieberman voted AGAINST protecting US military personnel from Int'l Criminal Court prosecutions. EXCERPT Many pundits accurately noted that Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman’s 2006 loss in Connecticut's Senate primary would cause the Democratic Party to lurch further...

Upon returning from the Democratic Convention in Denver we find a political landscape that has drastically changed. In the course of just one week Sen. Barack Obama picked Sen. Joseph Biden as his vice presidential nominee while Sen. John McCain picked Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate. These two picks say a great deal about the judgment of each presidential candidate and about their understanding of the American Jewish community. Biden, of course, was the more conventional pick - especially for the Jewish community. The senior senator from Delaware is one of the most well-known and respected...

Double Down 06 Sep 2008 04:32 pm Bill Kristol on Sarah Palin. All he writes about in this piece of propaganda is electoral strategy and the people he hates in the media. In a week, he hasn't said a word about Sarah Palin's foreign policy views. I know she's being safely indoctrinated by Joe Liebermanand AIPAC as we speak, but the fact that Kristol, like the rest of us, has not yet been able to point to a single view of hers on foreign policy in her entire life, is eloquent enough.

Thank you for that warm welcome. I am honored to be here. We meet tonight in the wake of a terrible storm that has hit the Gulf Coast but that hurts all of us, because we are all members of our larger American family. At times like this, we set aside all that divides us, and we come together to help our fellow citizens in need. What matters is certainly not whether we are Democrats or Republicans, but that we are all Americans. The truth is, it shouldn’t take a hurricane to bring us together like this. Every day, across...

Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn) met January 2006 with some Orthodox leaders at the home of Milton Balkany, a rabbi whose legal troubles led President Bush's campaign and a New York mayoral candidate to return contributions linked to him. A well-connected political fund-raiser once dubbed the "Brooklyn Bundler" by the good-government watchdog group Common Cause, Balkany has been at the center of controversies dating back some years, which have led to various accusations but no criminal convictions. In August 2003, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York charged Rabbi Balkany, president and director of the Bais Yaakov School...

08/17/2000 Jay Nordlinger National Review EXCERPT I'm a little weary of the Liebermans' routine. Wednesday night was Joe-'n'-Hadassah night in LA (Dems 2000 convention), and if the country is falling in love with them, it is a strange country indeed. Mrs. L. introduced her husband, and she did it in her now-familiar very treacly style. The Liebermans have seemed awfully pleased with themselves, and with life, this month. Hadassah can't quite put a damper on her excitement, and neither can Joltin' Joe. She gushed her thanks for the Democrats' "support, enthusiasm, and love," which have been "overwhelming" (as though we...

August 10, 2000 John Fund The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board EXCERPT Joe Lieberman was chosen to fill out the Democratic ticket in part for his integrity and character. That's why it's unfortunate to see some of Al Gore already rubbing off on him. Senator Lieberman has managed to balance a voting record that was in line with the White House's position 89% of the time last year with an independent streak on key issues, such as private Social Security accounts and education vouchers. But when the Washington Times asked a Lieberman adviser if he still backed those ideas it...

8/17/00New York Post By John Podhoretz EXCERPT Joe Lieberman, the vice-presidential nominee, who has spent 10 days fleeing from his own convictions, last night (giving his VP speech) fled from the eloquence of his speech on the Senate floor two years ago denouncing Bill Clinton's immorality. Hanging around Al Gore seems to have reduced Lieberman to baby-boomer solipsism: In this speech, as in so many of his speeches these last 10 days, he treated his elevation not as the assumption of a solemn responsibility but like he won the Lotto. Excuse me, but what does all this sentimental Oscar-acceptance-speech junk...

For all the political intrigue surrounding his speech Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, eight years after he accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination by excoriating the GOP for all manner of imagined evils, Sen. Joseph Lieberman addressed the convention not to advance bipartisanship or to put "country first," but to rescue his floundering political career. Knowing him as we do made his address difficult to watch because we knew nothing was as it appeared. Contrary to the ravings of the far left, Sen. Lieberman is a reflexive Northeast liberal Democrat and always will be. From his earliest days as...

HARTFORD — Political observers in Connecticut say U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman sealed his political fate but aren't sure what destiny awaits the self-styled independent Democrat. There is a sense in his home state that Lieberman either winds up in the White House cabinet or marginalized in the Senate for the next four years. "I think his political future entirely rests on the outcome of the presidential election," said Ken Dautrich, a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut. Lieberman endorsed Republican John McCain and assailed Democrat Barack Obama in a televised speech Tuesday to the Republican National Convention....

Following is the speech that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrats' candidate for vice president in 2000, prepared for delivery to the Republican Convention on Tuesday night.Thank you for that warm welcome. I am honored to be here. We meet tonight in the wake of a terrible storm that has hit the Gulf Coast but that hurts all of us, because we are all members of our larger American family. At times like this, we set aside all that divides us, and we come together to help our fellow citizens in need. What matters is certainly not whether we are Democrats...

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - While pundits roundly panned Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) convention speech on Tuesday as ineffective, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) seems to think it had sharp enough barbs to merit a statement. Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000, repeatedly impugned Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) message of change and post-partisanship during an address that keynoted the GOP's first full day of convention activities. "Both presidential candidates this year talk about changing the culture of Washington," Lieberman said. "But only one of them has actually done it. Only one leader has shown the courage and the...

Democrats attack Lieberman, saying he lied to delegates (CNN) -- Democrats accused fellow lawmaker Sen. Joe Lieberman of misleading the Republican National Convention when he addressed them in a speech Tuesday night. A senior Barack Obama campaign adviser said Lieberman flat-out lied when he told delegates that Obama never successfully reached across party lines. "Joe Lieberman ought to be ashamed of himself for some of the things he said tonight, not as a Democrat but as an American," adviser Robert Gibbs said on "Larry King Live." Lieberman, an independent senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic vice presidential candidate alongside...

Barack Obama can’t dress up his record with fancy speeches, Independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman told the Republican National Convention audience Tuesday night in a stinging address that signaled politics was back in play after a muted start to festivities the day before. Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee just eight years ago, leaped over the partisan fence to deliver the remarks. His very presence in St. Paul was a message to undecided voters that McCain’s appeal crosses party lines. He urged those voters directly to support his colleague in the Senate, casting him as a seasoned and principled candidate...

Gore’s 2000 running mate says Obama would be a fine leader — later Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee in 2000, urged Democrats to cross party lines Tuesday night and cast their votes for Sen. John McCain of Arizona, telling they they could “always count on him to be straight with you about where he stands and to stand for what he thinks is right regardless of politics.” Lieberman, who is now officially an independent but continues to caucus with the Democrats, was addressing delegates at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., but he...

Here is video of Sen. Joe Lieberman giving a very strong appeal for Democrats and Independents to vote for John McCain for President at the Republican National Convention. Lieberman laid out the case for McCain as a reformer and as the only choice for Commander-in-Chief. Lieberman also made a direct appeal to fellow Democrats to not put party first this year, but to put "Country First" by voting for McCain. . . . (see video at link)

When the Democrat Convention was on,my wife said, "Come sit with me and watch this. I'll watch the Republican with you when they are on.""Okay, I'll try", I replied. I sat on the couch with her, but within a minute I had to leave.<>"sorry honey, I just can't do it. I have to go upstairs and puke." She laughed,saying, At least you tried.....'.so I wondered if the DUmmies were torturing themselves by watching the RNC --- and they were. I am sympathetic ... I somehow can relate to the rage they might be feeling, yet I enjoy watching them wretch...

Joe is giving an honorable speech, now addressing Democrats and Independents watching.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans relegated President Bush to a brief, offsite cameo at their national convention Tuesday night and awarded one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman a prime-time speaking slot as they courted millions of independent voters essential to John McCain's presidential hopes.

Here is video of Sen. Joe Lieberman this morning explaining to CNN's John Roberts why he is speaking to the Republican National Convention tonight, and why he is voting for John McCain to be President. . . . (see video at link)

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- The Republican National Convention, cut back Monday because of Hurricane Gustav's arrival on the U.S. Gulf Coast, will resume a full schedule Tuesday, convention officials said. Republicans are holding their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, this week.

WASHINGTON — In the end, the choice of his running mate said more about Senator John McCain and his image of himself than it did about Sarah Palin, the little-known governor of Alaska whose selection has shaken up the presidential race. For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, Mr. McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Democrat turned independent. But by the end of last weekend, the outrage from Christian conservatives over the possibility that Mr. McCain would fill out the Republican ticket with Mr. Lieberman, a...

As John McCain prepares to announce his running mate on Friday in Dayton, Ohio, speculation is centering on candidates ranging from a former head of the Winter Olympics to an independent senator as the Arizona lawmaker's choice to help him take on Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the historic fall election. With the Democrats' convention winding down in Denver, the focus is shifting to the Republicans, who are scheduled begin their nominating convention in St. Paul, Minn., on Monday. There's a chance the convention could be postponed, however, if Tropical Storm Gustav turns into a hurricane and strikes the...

I'll start: ~~~~ "Could it be Cantor? posted at 1:00 pm on August 28, 2008 by Ed Morrissey The Fayetteville Observer reads a few tea leaves in the veepstakes and suggests that Eric Cantor may become the dark-horse finalist for John McCain’s running-mate. Cantor has not yet appeared on the convention schedule, which would seem strange for such a dynamic member of the House GOP’s leadership. He also represents a Virginia district, which could prove crucial to holding the state for the Republicans in November: Rep. Robin Hayes is predicting that Sen. John McCain will pick Rep. Eric Cantor of...

John McCain is poised to announce his vice-presidential running mate, hoping to steal the thunder of his rival Barack Obama, whom Republicans are mocking as an 'emperor' speaking on Thursday night at an 'Obamopolis'. The Republican candidate was due to appear with his vice-presidential pick at a rally in Dayton, Ohio on Friday morning, his 72nd birthday. But Republican officials intimated that a name might even be leaked just before Mr Obama accepts the Democratic nomination before some 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco stadium on Thursday. Senior aides to Mr McCain said that three people were on his shortlist -...

Politico’s Mike Allen reported this morning that McCain has made his VP pick and will notify that person today in advance of tomorrow’s planned rollout rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The short list is thought to include longtime veep frontrunners Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty along with a few, possibly token, mentions of possible female candidates like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. But the hottest, and oddest, rumor in the days leading up to the announcement has stemmed from persistent leaks about how badly McCain himself wants to select the hawkish former Democrat Joe...

Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to withdraw his name from vice presidential consideration, according to three sources familiar with the conversation. Lieberman dismissed the request, these sources agreed. Lieberman “laughed at the suggestion and certainly did not call [McCain] on it,” said one source familiar with the details.

Republican strategist Karl Rove called Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) late last week and urged him to contact Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to withdraw his name from vice-presidential consideration, according to three sources familiar with the conversation. Lieberman dismissed the request, these sources agreed. Lieberman “laughed at the suggestion and certainly did not call [McCain] on it,” said one source familiar with the details. “Rove called Lieberman,” recounted a second source. “Lieberman told him he would NOT make that call.” Rove did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Rove, President Bush’s former top campaign adviser and arguably the most...

John McCain is expected to reveal his vice-presidential choice on Friday at a rally in the critical battleground state of Ohio. Mr McCain is seeking to blunt Barack Obama’s hopes of a bounce in the polls after he accepts the Democratic nomination in Denver tomorrow night. The Republican nominee’s move comes after a week in which he and his Republican surrogates have had significant success in inserting themselves aggressively into what was meant to be Mr Obama’s week. Republican guerrilla tactics and attack advertisements have forced the Democrat’s campaign to respond in kind. Mr McCain will appear at a midday...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it. But they can't get away with it -- and this has been made clear to McCain by none other than Joe Lieberman himself.