House Dems Want Hearings On Detainee Photos Bill
House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...
House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Lieberman has changed his tune on Barack Obama. After campaigning across the country for Republican John McCain in 2008 an...
AFP | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Independent US Senator Joseph Lieberman, an observant Jew, planned to walk to and from any vote on the titantic economic stimulus plan that falls on t...
New York Observer | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
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 s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Senate is prepared for one of its most important votes in decades this weekend, whether to approve President Obama's economic stimulus package. Re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama received heavy praise for his policy on Afghanistan and approach to the Middle East from a somewhat unlikely source: the Senator who once...
Michael L. Millenson | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics
There is a Jewish prayer that captures the sense of relief, gratitude, and joy that so many of us feel as Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States. It is called the Shehechiyanu.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
Fresh off his successful effort to keep his seat atop the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee -- in which he was often accused of bei...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics
A semi-repentant Joe Lieberman took to the set of "Meet the Press" on Sunday, tasked with explaining his conduct on the campaign trail, his attacks on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics
On Tuesday, the Democratic Senate caucus decided to let Joe Lieberman retain his chairmanship atop the Homeland Security committee. But by the time th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
DNC Chair Howard Dean welcomed the decision to keep Senator Joseph Lieberman as head of the Homeland Security Committee and, consequently, in the Demo...
Steve Clemons | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics
Lieberman is dangerous on so many levels and hasn't offered any explanation that should make Americans feel comfortable with him as Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
The Republican Party falsely accused Obama of hastening the genocide of the Jewish people -- while Sen. Lieberman gave this strategy his seal of approval by campaigning for McCain.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will meet with Joe Lieberman on Thursday to discuss how the disaffected, controversial Connecticut Democrat-Independ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama rejected the proposal -- put forward by John McCain today -- that the two presidential candidates leave the campaign trail, delay Friday'...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
When Joe Lieberman first started stumping on behalf of John McCain, he said it was driven primarily by a shared vision for the Iraq war and a personal...
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Tonight, McCain gave us a big dose of Reagan's national greatness flourish in a dignified, genteel and pleasant manner. His speaking style was reminiscent of Reagan -- without the memorable lines.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
There is a growing effort on behalf of McCain surrogates here in Minneapolis to paint the Arizona Republican as far less hawkish on foreign policy tha...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
Senator Joseph Lieberman's decision to speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention is being met with deep consternation among Democrats and i...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
Speaking to reporters about the situation in Georgia, Sen. John McCain denounced the aggressive posture of Russia by claiming that:"in the 21st centur...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign has to be more selective in choosing its spokespeople, using more strong, smart advocates like Sen. Biden and Sen. Webb, and keeping Pelosi and Kerry as far away from the media as possible.
Adele Stan | Posted 08.29.2008 | Politics
I'll be surprised if McCain doesn't pick a woman. I've long speculated before that such a move would make good sense as McCain seeks to appeal to swing voters.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
Despite rumblings that his advocacy for John McCain could lead to his ouster from the Democratic Party, Joseph Lieberman continued on Tuesday to take ...
ZP Heller | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
It's highly problematic for someone as hawkish and conservative as Lieberman, who has publicly endorsed John McCain and backs the Bush-McCain war in Iraq, to hold a high ranking seat in the Democratic caucus.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, the New York Times sniffed at a new web site, LiebermanMustGo.com, writing that it "catalogues Mr. Lieberman's perceived sins," as if the t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics