Lieberman Won’t Back Democratic Candidates
Joe Lieberman willnot endorse Conneticut's Democratic candidates for Congress, he announced yesterday. 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 ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 26, 2006 08:35
Lieberman Calls on Rumsfeld to Resign
Democrat/Connecticut for Lieberman/Republican backed Joe Lieberman called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation on yesterday's "Face the Nation." Sen. Joe Lieberman, attacked by fellow Democrats as being too close to the White House on the Iraq War, on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign but said the United States cannot "walk away" from the Iraqis. Lieberman, the one-time Democratic vice ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 21, 2006 07:59
NRSC Tacitly Backing Lieberman
Jason Horowitz reports that, a source at the National Republican Senatorial Committee confirmed in a phone interview that the party will not help Schlesinger or any other potential Republican candidate in Connecticut, and it now favors a Lieberman victory in November. "We did a poll and there is no way any Republican we put out there can win, so we ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 17, 2006 21:04
Beating a Dead Horse
Political Wire's Quote of the Day: "Even if Joe Lieberman leaves the race, it will still be a three-way race, me, Schlesinger and Gold. So it's going to be crowded." -- Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont (D), on Hardball, referring to GOP rival Alan Schlesinger's (R) gambling name, "Alan Gold." Great line. There's something just a little unsporting going after ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 17, 2006 11:40
Lieberman Holds Double Digit Lead
"Independent" Joe Lieberman holds a twelve point lead over Democrat Ned Lamont in the latest Quinnipiac poll, Taegan Goddard reports, thanks to support of 3/4 of Republicans. In Connecticut's U.S. Senate race, a new Quinnipiac poll finds Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) leading Ned Lamont (D) among likely voters, 53% to 41%, with Alan Schlesinger (R) getting 4%. Lieberman leads 75%-13%-10% among ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 17, 2006 07:11
Lieberman May be Stripped of Seniority
Key Democratic Party leaders are angry at Joe Lieberman for running against their nominee and there is now talk of stripping his seniority within the caucus. A group of Senate Democrats is growing increasingly angry about Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (D-Conn.) campaign tactics since he lost the Democratic primary last week. If he continues to alienate his colleagues, Lieberman could be stripped ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 16, 2006 11:29
Lieberman Still Frontrunner
Republican pollster Rob Autry* contends that Joe Lieberman remains the odds-on favorite to retain his Senate seat despite being beaten in his own party primary and holding a narrow lead in the latest three-way polls. The key to winning Connecticut is not winning Democrats...it’s winning moderates. After all, Republicans do hold three of the five Congressional Districts in the state and ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 14, 2006 16:25
Bush Refuses to Back GOP Candidate over Lieberman
Although the Republican Party is running a candidate to vy for the Connecticut U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Joe Lieberman, the GOP establishment is refusing to endorse him. Taegan Goddard reports, "White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said this morning that President Bush will not endorse Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Alan Schlesinger (R) over Sen. Joe ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 14, 2006 11:22
Kennedy Takes On Cheney’s Remarks On Lamont Win
In today's Hartford Courant, Sen. Ted Kennedy authored an op-ed responding to comments made by Vice President Dick Cheney about Ned Lamont's victory in last week's Democratic primary in Connecticut. Here's the bulk of what Kennedy had to say: The comments he made on the result of the Connecticut Democratic primary - that it might encourage ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 14, 2006 00:44
Foiled Terror Plots and Strawmen
Scott Lemieux cites several bloggers on the right touting yesterday's announcement that a mega 9/11 reprise had been foiled as evidence that the war on terror has been a success, that liberals are fuddy duddys, and Ned Lamont is a joke. He argues the idea that "This whole war on terror thing is a phony construct made up by ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 11, 2006 07:15
