Maybe it’s an oversimplication to say that Joe Lieberman’s actions during his fourth term in the Senate can be explained by a simple desire to get even with the Democrats who abandoned him in his 2006 re-election bid. Maybe.
But his appearance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” in which he attempted to explain his Read More
The big question in Washington right now is about how serious Joe Lieberman actually is about joining a Republican filibuster of the health care bill with a public option that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now pushing.
Connecticut’s junior senator said on Tuesday that he’ll probably vote to allow the bill to come Read More
Back in 2006, some of the biggest names in Democratic politics, including an up-and-coming Illinois senator named Barack Obama, argued that Joe Lieberman-and not his more progressive Democratic challenger, Ned Lamont-should represent Connecticut in the Senate.
On Tuesday, Lieberman, who won that election as an independent but who (thanks again to Obama) still caucuses with Read More
Bipartisanship, as it relates to the debate over health care in the United States Congress, is dead.
Not that you’d know this from listening to President Obama or his Republican tormenters in the House and Senate, all of whom continually proclaim their resolve to “reach across the aisle” in an effort to forge Read More
A moment of choosing is fast approaching for Barack Obama and his party’s Congressional leaders: to sacrifice the public option that the Democratic base holds so dear, or to stick with it, damn the consequences.
Their decision looms as the difference between (almost) sure-thing passage of a compromise health care plan and an Read More
On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives took the historic step of passing the first piece of U.S. legislation to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses. While the bill, like all legislation, is not perfect, it is a giant step in the right direction. The most important provisions of the bill require:
• Reductions in Read More
It should go without saying that the $3.6 trillion budget Barack Obama submitted to Congress last week will be subject to countless tweaks, trimmings, slashings, and wholesale alterations as it winds its way toward enactment.
And, unlike the stimulus fight that defined the early weeks of Obama’s presidency, this time many Congressional Read More
Both of Connecticut’s U.S. senators were greeted with ominous new poll numbers on Tuesday. The new Quinnipiac University survey showed Chris Dodd, a senator’s son who first won election to the upper chamber in 1980, scoring his lowest ever marks and Joe Lieberman trailing by a whopping 28 points in a re-election trial heat. Read More
As a certain segment of the political world speculates about what Barack Obama’s early personnel choices might mean for his Middle East policy, one New York consultant – whose client list has included Chuck Schumer, Michael Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, Scott Stringer, Joe Lieberman, 1199 SEIU and 32BJ – has gone to work for Read More
