Hold Fast

Joe Lieberman is about to go fully Zell Miller on the Democratic Party. Though in fairness to Zell, he just retired and Joe is embracing the GOP while serving in the US Senate as a self-proclaimed independent-Democrat.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a […]

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Dean Barker of Blue Hampshire had an interesting email exchange with a Republican challenger to Paul Hodes (NH-02) and was given permission to publish it. Jim Steiner responded to a post by Dean on FISA and the exchange is interesting. They disagree on FISA and Dean had been cutting in his initial response to Steiner’s […]

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In case you were wondering, Senate Guru already has projections for the Republicans up for re-election in 2010. SG writes:
Over a year ago, I took a first glance at the 2010 races, which feature 19 Republican-held seats up compared with 15 Democratic seats.  Among those up for re-election are 8 Republican Senators who will be […]

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Shorter Republicans in Congress: Don’t the Big Telecoms know how badly they need us to help them? Don’t they know that we’ll never ask them to follow the law? What gives?
Roll Call reports that Republicans on the Hill are up in arms over the fact that the telecom industry isn’t giving more money to GOP […]

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The New York Times has an interesting profile piece of Louisiana’s Republican Governor Bobby Jindal. Jindal is considered a superstar in the Republican Party - he’s young, the son of Indian immigrants, and primed to be at the front of the next generation of Republican presidential candidates.
The Times piece is on how he’s pushed for […]

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Conservative scholar and pundit William F. Buckley has died. Rick Perlstein has a piece up in memoriam, titled “Why William F. Buckley Was My Role Model.” Though he was no role model of mine, I highly recommend Perlstein’s piece, as it provides a great insight into how Buckley modeled the way the battle of […]

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Lewis Black, via Jane Hamsher:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGSoqfHfcL0

If you don’t understand why this is funny, go below the fold for the original video Black is lampooning…

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This ad is currently running in Connecticut against freshman Congressman Chris Murphy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4LCNgogqDg

The ad is being aired by an ultra right wing organization, Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Not shockingly, Joe Lieberman is one of their “distinguished advisors.” Jane Hamsher reports:
Republican attack ads pressuring House Democrats to capitulate on telecom immunity started running in Connecticut against […]

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The big story which broke last night was a New York Times article, reported by a raft of top flight reporters, on John McCain’s relationship with a telecommunications lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. Though the article covers other subjects related to ethics, there isn’t much original reporting in the Times’ piece outside of his relationship with Iseman. […]

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His campaign isn’t that competent - it failed to gather enough signature to be on the ballot in one of the most conservative districts in Indiana. Thomas at Blue Indiana reports:
To my surprise, I noticed that John McCain — the presumptive front-runner for the GOP nomination — was just a little short in a few […]

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