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MT. PLEASANT, South Carolina - Cisco Systems’ John Chambers and FedEx founder Fred Smith could be among those asked to serve in a John McCain cabinet, the Arizona senator said on Friday. Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young. US Senator John McCain greets supporters at a campaign event in Summerville, South Carolina, January 11, 2008. But their services would have to come at a discount. “I want to go get the best and the brightest, whether they’re Republican or Democrat, and I’m going to tell these men and women: ‘Work for a dollar. Work for a dollar a year. You’ve done pretty...

Obama splits Black CaucusBy: Josephine Hearn Jan 17, 2008 06:03 AM EST The Clinton supporters have said their endorsements didn’t hinge on race. (Composite photo by Politico.com) Photo: AP Even though Barack Obama may become the first African-American ever to represent a major party as the nominee for president, many black lawmakers on Capitol Hill are not supporting him. And that’s creating tensions within the Congressional Black Caucus.More than a third of the black members of Congress are backing Hillary Rodham Clinton or John Edwards in the presidential primary, a stance that puts them at odds with many of their...

Lieberman: Friendly with GOP, lying about DemocratsPETER URBAN Purban@ctpost.com Article Last Updated: 11/30/2007 10:01:46 PM EST As an independently elected Democrat, freed to pursue issues outside the restrictive partisan lines, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has done little to foster bipartisanship on the central issue of the day. In fact, Lieberman had done more to widen the partisan divide on the Iraq war than mend it. Fresh from his most recent visit to Iraq, Lieberman went on Fox's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," where he chastised Democrats for failing to acknowledge post-surge progress in Iraq. "This is the third time I've...

The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a "hyper-partisan, politically paranoid" liberal base that could endanger the final nominee's chances of winning next year's presidential election, Joe Lieberman, the former vice-presidential Democratic candidate, said yesterday. In his most outspoken attack on fellow Democrats since he was unsuccessfully challenged last year by Ned Lamont, a liberal Democrat, for his Senate seat in Connecticut, Mr Lieberman yesterday said he might not vote for the Democratic presidential nominee next year.

"Huffington Outnasties Olbermann"

How do you know when someone's gone off the deep end of the liberal pool? When they manage to outduel even Keith Olbermann at calumny. On this evening's show, Olbermann and Arianna Huffington were discussing Joe Lieberman's support for President Bush's Iraq policy. Olbermann's opening bid was to suggest, given Liebermans's support for traditional Dem positions on issues like ethics and global warming and the fact that "he could give the Senate to the GOP if he feels crossed or just feels like it," that the independent Democratic senator from CT was a "necessary evil" from the Dems' viewpoint. Arianna...

That's what Marjorie Cohn is saying on The Thom Hartmann Show. The talk started a few hours ago, from what they're saying. (not that it didn't occur to any of us earlier, but it's going around now) Per Cohn: * It would stop the Senate investigations dead in their tracks. * It would guarantee a Senate confirmation. * It would change the balance of power in the Senate, in favor of the Republicans. * And it smells of Karl Rove. Her advice? Barrage the Senate with calls. Make sure this doesn't happen. It would be an unmitigated disaster.

Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq. Lieberman, the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, insists he is not actively considering joining the Republican Party. But he is keeping that possibility wide open as his disenchantment grows with Democratic leaders. The main sticking points are their attempts to end the war in Iraq and their hesitation to take a harder line against Iran. “I think either [Democrats] are,...

<p>Julie Banderas just gave out an email address for questions, sorry I missed it. Duncan Hunter on Fox News Channel!</p>

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Lieberman, McCain, Kyl, Graham, and Coleman today introduced a bipartisan amendment to the Defense Authorization Act, confronting the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran over its proxy attacks on American soldiers in Iraq. The amendment details the publicly available evidence put forward over the past year by General David Petraeus, commanding general of Multi-National Force Iraq, and others about Iran’s violent and destabilizing activities in Iraq. The amendment states that “the murder of members of the United States Armed Forces by a foreign government or its agents is an intolerable act of hostility against the...

Earlier this week, the U.S. military made public new and disturbing information about the proxy war that Iran is waging against American soldiers and our allies in Iraq. According to Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, the Iranian government has been using the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah to train and organize Iraqi extremists, who are responsible in turn for the murder of American service members. Gen. Bergner also revealed that the Quds Force--a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps whose mission is to finance, arm and equip foreign Islamist terrorist movements--has taken groups of...

WASHINGTON - Connecticut Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman asserted Monday that the Iranian government has in effect declared war on the United States. Lieberman commented after a U.S. military spokesman said Tehran's senior officials were aware of efforts to encourage violence against Americans in Iraq. "The fact is that the Iranian government has by its actions declared war on us," said Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats. As a result, he continued, "The United States government has a responsibility to use all instruments at its disposal to stop these terrorist attacks against our soldiers and allies in Iraq, including...

Bay area CODEPINK member collapsed in Lieberman's office after 10 days of an ongoing hunger-strike to gain a meeting with the Senator. Outraged by Senator Lieberman's comments on CBS on June 15 about wanting to bomb Iran, CODEPINK member Leslie Angeline, 50, decided to start a hunger strike until she could meet with the senator. A meeting was scheduled then cancelled by Lieberman's office, resulting in over 50 members of CODEPINK and Iranian, Iraqi, Israeli and Jewish communities to converge on the Senator's office. 3 days later the Senator from Connecticut repeated his accusations and proposed military attack against Iran....

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said Tuesday he's supporting legislation to create new House seats for his home state of Utah and the District of Columbia, boosting chances that after two centuries residents of the nation's capital will get a vote in Congress. Hatch joined Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in sponsoring the Senate version of a bill, passed by the House last month, that would permanently add two seats to the 435-seat House, giving one to the Democratic district and another, provisionally, to Republican-leaning Utah. Most House Republicans joined the Bush White House in opposing the bill, saying the Constitution denies...

Lieberman: Patience Thin With Iran April 24, 2007 Newsmax.com Sen. Joe Lieberman said the United States would not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and warned that America was losing patience with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime. "The world cannot allow this nation with this leader having said what he has said to get nuclear weapons,” Lieberman said during a speech at a synagogue in Montreal, Canada, on Sunday. "The U.S. would never say that it would not use military power to at least try to knock out part of the nuclear weapons program of Iran to at least delay the...

It hasn’t been the best week, and with the Iraq Study Group apparently poised to release its eagerly awaited plan for surrender later today, things are unlikely to get better anytime soon. So, before we get to the serious stuff, let’s cling to one piece of positive news. Yesterday, Joe Lieberman refused to rule out the idea of caucusing with the Republicans in the Senate. As I typed that sentence and prepared to hit the “publish” button, I could sense veins popping across the progressive blogosphere. The AP reports: "Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday that he will...

Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday repeated his pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats when the 110th Congress convenes in January, but refused to slam the door on possibly moving to the Republican side of the aisle. Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he might follow the example of Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who left the Republicans in 2001 and became an independent, ending Republican control of the U.S. Senate, Lieberman refused to discount the possibility. "I'm not ruling it out but I hope I don't get to that point," he said. "And I must say -- and with...

HARTFORD, Conn. --Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday repeated his pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats when the 110th Congress convenes in January, but refused to slam the door on possibly moving to the Republican side of the aisle. Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he might follow the example of Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who left the Republicans in 2001 and became an independent, ending Republican control of the U.S. Senate, Lieberman refused to discount the possibility. "I'm not ruling it out but I hope I don't get to that point," he said. "And I must say --...

Connecticut voters who worried that Sen. Joe Lieberman might embrace calls by Democrats to withdraw from Iraq can rest easy — that option doesn't appear to be on his plate. The Senate Armed Services Committee convened a hearing last week to discuss the situation in Iraq and Lieberman made it clear through his questioning that he does not favor a withdrawal. Emboldened by victories in the mid-term elections where the central issue was Iraq, Democrats are pressing for a change in course that will bring American troops home sooner, rather than later. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who will chair the...

Yeah, I know. Another vanity. But I'm wondering...any chance he might flip?

Lieberman, Seniority Sure, Has No Plans to Join G.O.P. Mr. Lieberman said he spoke Wednesday morning to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, and that Mr. Reid assured him that he would retain his seniority despite having bolted the party after losing its primary in August to run on his own party line.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, may have agreed to caucus with the Democrats in the next congressional term, but the Connecticut independent made it clear Wednesday he would not hold the party line on a call for phased troop withdrawals. "Both general Abizaid and Ambassador Satterfield were quite clear and to me convincing, that for congress to order the beginning of a phased redeployment, a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq within the next 4 to 6 months would be a very serious mistake and would endanger ultimate the United States," Lieberman told reporters after the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on...

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Senate Democrats give Lieberman standing ovation WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who bolted the Democratic party after losing a primary election this year to run as an independent, won a standing ovation at a closed meeting of all Senate Democrats Tuesday. /snip "It's been a helluva year," Lieberman told the group before imploring them to heed the lessons of the midterm election and "be willing to compromise" with Republicans. Lieberman, who now calls himself an "Independent Democrat," was asked if the warm reception helped remove lingering bitterness from the campaign when many of his...

Four days after calling his party affiliation a "closed issue," U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman said Sunday he was "not ruling it out" that he could turn Republican...

Declaring himself a "non-combatant," U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, in remarks at a New Haven press event Friday, raised anew the question of whether his "independent" candidacy will help Republicans hold onto three Congressional seats in Connecticut -- and control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Lieberman -- who after losing an Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont has launched a third-party bid to hold onto his seat in the Nov. 7 general election -- was asked whether he still endorses Diane Farrell, Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy, three Democrats looking to unseat endangered Republican incumbents Chris Shays, Rob Simmons...

The giddiness from those on the far left after Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman went down in his Democratic primary against Ned Lamont, who ran an anti-Bush, anti-Iraq campaign, may be short-lived. A poll released last week finds that Sen. Lieberman, now running as an independent in the general election, has a comfortable lead over Mr. Lamont. The survey, conducted by Quinnipiac University pollsters, found that 53 percent of likely voters favor Sen. Lieberman, while 41 percent back Mr. Lamont. Just 4 percent supported the Republican candidate, who is being encouraged by members of his own party to withdraw from the...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Connecticut's secretary of the state says Sen. Joe Lieberman has gathered enough signatures to run for re-election with a new party.

HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 21 -- Critics of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.

(Bridgeport-WTNH, Aug. 21, 2006 6:00 PM) _ One group claims Lieberman is trying to start a fake political party and another says Lieberman is a fake Democrat and should be kicked out of the Democratic party. Joe Lieberman says he is a Democrat and always will be and that he's running in November as an Independent petitioning Democrat. Some democrats in New Haven, where Lieberman lives and votes, say they want him kicked out of the party. Joe Lieberman had another of his 'Cup of Joe with Joe' stops in Bridgeport today but while he was there a group of...

Michael Moore wrote an open letter to Democrats who voted for the war. Either recant your vote, disavow your pro-war stance, or else. He specifically threatened Hillary Clinton. Look at what happened to Lieberman they crowed. We targeted him because of his war vote and we can target you. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Ned Lamont, whose anti-war campaign rattled the political landscape by toppling Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary, is gaining support among voters — but Lieberman still has an edge, according to a poll released Thursday. The Quinnipiac University poll has Lieberman leading Lamont among registered voters 49 percent to 38 percent. Republican Alan Schlesinger gets support from 4 percent. Among likely voters, Lieberman was supported by 53 percent, compared to Lamont's 41 percent and Schlesinger's 4 percent. Lieberman, a nationally known centrist who has been criticized by many Democrats for supporting the war in Iraq and a perceived closeness...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Ned Lamont, whose anti-war campaign rattled the political landscape by toppling Sen. Joe Lieberman last week in Connecticut's Democratic primary, is gaining support in November's three-way Senate race according to a poll released Thursday... Lieberman leads Lamont among registered voters 49 percent to 38 percent. Republican Alan Schlesinger gets support from 4 percent. Thats an improvement for Lamont, who tralied Lieberman 51 percent to 27 percent in a three way race in a July 20 Quinnipiac poll...

EAST HAVEN, Conn. - Two days before the Democratic primary, U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman made what he called his closing argument on his record Sunday as he tries to gain ground on upstart challenger Ned Lamont, who is leading in the latest poll. Lieberman, a three-term incumbent and his party‘s vice presidential candidate in 2000, has been dogged by liberal Democrats angry at him for supporting the war in Iraq . Lamont, a political newcomer and founder of a cable company, has capitalized on the war‘s unpopularity in Connecticut by accusing Lieberman of being too close to Republicans and President...

Monday, August 7, 2006 Copyright © 2006 Republican-American Second of two parts. [Part one, yesterday, dealt with the gubernatorial primary here in CT] For his entire political career, Democrat Joseph I. Lieberman enjoyed favorable news coverage. He became a news media darling in the 1980s by infusing activism into the state attorney general's office. In 1988, journalists swooned when he upset incumbent Republican Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. In his first 17 years in Congress, Sen. Lieberman benefited from constant kneepad journalism. Reporters covered his "Cup of Joe" gatherings as if they weren't publicity stunts. In crises, they sought him...

There are a great many people on the left of American politics who think that there is one - and only one - lesson of Vietnam: parties fighting unpopular wars lose power, perhaps for a generation. But this is a remarkably solipsistic way of viewing Vietnam. Of the three Presidential elections fought during that war two saw the President re-elected by massive proportions. The 1964 election gave the Democrats their biggest victory since FDR and 1972 their biggest defeat since Lincoln. (And the latter may not count for much, as the most staunchly Democrat states sat that one out). Certainly,...

Lieberman Still Trails But within the margin of error. (Quinnipiac University poll -- via Bloomberg News) With tomorrow's Democrat Primary in the offing, a poll of likely Democrat voters gives a slight nod to the challenger 51 - 45 with a margin of error of +/- 3.5%. As much as I would like to see the Democrats pull a McGovern and go hard left, for the sake of the country, I hope Joe pulls this one out.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — In January, when cable-television executive Ned Lamont held the event billed as his political coming-out party, one of the first to arrive was the mayor of Hartford, Eddie Perez — who stayed just long enough to tell him to get out of the race. Standing before a small audience, Lamont said he felt a little like Adm. James Stockdale, Ross Perot's running mate, who introduced himself at the 1992 vice-presidential debate by saying, "Who am I, and why am I here?" It was a shaky analogy for Lamont; Stockdale's awkward performance made him material for late-night comedians....

Joseph Lieberman, a three tern Democratic senator and former vice presidential candidate, has cut his opponent's lead to 6 points in Tuesday's Connecticut primary race, a poll released Monday showed.

Wisconsin's Russ Feingold was the first member of the Senate Democratic Caucus to refuse to back U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., in the primary fight that has become a struggle over the direction - and perhaps even the soul - of the Democratic Party. Feingold and Lieberman are about as far apart on the issues as two members of the same party can get, but it still came as something of a surprise when Feingold told NBC's Tim Russert in a June "Meet the Press" interview that he would not be supporting his colleague from Connecticut in that state's Democratic...

EAST HAVEN, Conn. - Facing intense pressure in his bid for the Democratic primary, Sen. Joe Lieberman strongly distanced himself from President Bush, saying he opposed the White House’s domestic agenda and its handling of the Iraq war. “I am the only Democrat in America to run against George Bush in a national election twice,” Lieberman told supporters at a rally Sunday. “You know why I ran for president in 2004? Because I believe that his agenda was wrong for our country and our future. And that’s the truth.” Meanwhile, a poll out Monday showed the race tightening.

CONNECTICUT SENATE: Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman faces a stiff challenge from anti-war businessman Ned Lamont. The three-term senator, nationally known for his centrist views, faces harsh criticism in his home state for supporting the Iraq war and has been labeled by some Democrats as too close to Republicans and President Bush. GOVERNOR: New Haven Mayor John DeStefano and Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy compete for the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell in November. Rell has a 75 percent approval rating and better than 2-to-1 leads over her challengers. GEORGIA HOUSE: Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who made headlines this...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Sen. Joe Lieberman closed his anti-war opponent's double-digit lead yesterday to just six points as both candidates scrambled across the state ahead of today's Democratic primary. The latest polling results were a relief to the veteran Democrat, who has represented this state in the Senate for nearly two decades and who just six years ago was his party's vice presidential nominee. Mr. Lieberman predicted yesterday that the movement in polls showed momentum at his back and said he expects to win today. "I feel they were flirting with the other guy for a while, wanting to send...

WASHINGTON--My brief and unhappy experience with the hate and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle comes from the last several months I spent campaigning for a longtime friend, Joe Lieberman. This kind of scary hatred, my dad used to tell me, comes only from the right wing--in his day from people such as the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, with his tirades against "communists and their fellow travelers." The word "McCarthyism" became a red flag for liberals, signifying the far right's fascistic tactics of labeling anyone a "communist" or "socialist" who favored an active federal government to...

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is the last standing moderate Democrat in congress and he is taking heavy fire from his own party which is working to replace him with liberal Democrat challenger Ned Lamont. Polls have the two running neck-n-neck 24 hours before the polls open and Lieberman’s long distinguished political career may be drawing to a close. Six years ago, he was his party’s choice for Vice President as Al Gore’s White House running mate. A short six years later, he is being run out of town by that party. What are the unforgivable sins that threaten to bring...

Ned Lamont - who is looking to unseat Joe Lieberman in today's Connecticut Democratic primary - is fond of saying that if voters elected him, they "wouldn't be losing a senator" but would be "gaining a Democrat." Set aside the comical assertion that Lieberman, who votes with his party 90% of the time, isn't a real Democrat. Who is Ned Lamont, anyway, and what would Democrats gain by embracing him in the most watched Senate contest in the country? Lamont postures as a businessman who was so outraged by the war in Iraq, and by Lieberman's support of it, that...

There will be a way to test the competing interpretations of the Lieberman-Lamont contest. Were Lieberman to be defeated, Republicans would mourn his loss as a blow to moderates and urge him to run this fall as an independent. But if petrified Republican candidates around the country accelerate their efforts to add to the distance they've already built between themselves and Bush, you'll know that they know what Connecticut's voters were really saying. And if Lieberman miraculously survives, it will be because he finally realized that the last thing an incumbent wants to be this year is George Bush's best...

Let's hope Joe Lieberman's Hail Mary toss on Iraq isn't the wave of the future for the Democratic Party. In their story on Lieberman's desperate, clammy, last-ditch attempt to save his political hide, Times reporters Patrick Healy and Jennifer Medina called Lieberman's verbal retrenchment on Iraq -- a mea culpa without the culpa -- "a new set of talking points for Democratic leaders who are struggling for the right words to reconcile their support for the war initially and the fiery antiwar stance of many Democratic voters today." Talking points? More like a recipe for disaster. Read John Zogby's terrific...

Lieberman Web Site Down, Lamont Supporters Blamed Image Tamsen Fadal Reporting (CBS/AP) HARTFORD, Conn. The Joe Lieberman campaign claims it's been victimized by computer hackers who support his challenger Ned Lamont for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. The senator's official campaign Web site, Lieberman2006.com, is down and has been down since this morning. The site has been hacked and apparently it has been so thorough that the senator's campaign can't even use e-mail.

If you believe the propaganda emanating from Lieberman and his coterie of whore-cronies in the Democratic Leadership Council, Lamont is a dangerous, pillar-crushing revolutionary, a preppy, tanned mixture of Lenin and the Ayatollah. The Democrat insiders' strategy vis-à-vis Lamont is very similar to the one used to dispose of Howard Dean a few years back, only it's even more savage this time around: They have chosen to go after Lamont's supporters in the blogosphere, deriding the likes of "Daily Kos" founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and the wackos at MoveOn.org as "liberal fundamentalists" bent on liquidating poor Lieberman for the sake...

The reason is to get rid of 2 bad candidates, but if McKinney and LaMont win today you will see Republicans get scared like they always do and surrender to the left wing. Plus the Moveon's and the other left wing blogs will use it as a fundraising tool and the media will be parading them around like the saviors of the country.