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AM Feed - August 9: Lieberman Lost, but He's Still Running

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• Amid rising anger over the war in Iraq and his perceived closeness to George Bush and his failed policies, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) lost his bid for renomination as a Democrat for a fourth term in Connecticut last night to challenger Ned Lamont, 52-48 percent. Lieberman vowed to run as an independent in the general election this November while Lamont began to pick up endorsements of elected Democrats who had previously backed Lieberman, including Senators Clinton, Bayh and Edwards. Across the nation, Republicans showed their conservative teeth once again, as moderate freshman Rep. Joe Schwarz (R-MI) lost a bid for renomination to conservative challenger former State Rep. Tim Walberg, who drew support from such anti-choice, anti-working family groups as Michigan Right to Life and the Club for Growth. [link]
• Disgraced former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) announced yesterday he planned to “cut and run” from the ballot and support a write-in candidate for the November election. DeLay’s decision follows yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court to reject the appeal of the Texas Republican Party to remove his name from the ballot. Texas Republicans have yet to coalesce around a replacement to the corrupt DeLay, but it is sure that whoever the candidate will be, he or she will retain the support of Jack Abramoff’s best friend and his dirty PAC money. [link]
• In yet another example of the Bush administration’s reluctance to accept limits on their ability to torture people, the Bush Administration has drafted new amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate prosecution for CIA officers, political appointees and former military personnel for engaging in humiliation or degradation of war prisoners. Government officials who engage in such acts as using dog leashes on prisoners, forced nakedness and flushing copies of the Koran down the toilet would now be exempt from prosecution. Officials at the International Committee of the Red Cross and former U.S. military officials say the act amounts to another re-write of the Geneva Conventions. [link]

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• House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) “met with Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) last week” to “urge him to step aside” from his re-election bid and reminded him “that with a son and daughter nearing college age, he will need money.” Boehner cautioned that Ney “could not expect a lucrative career on K Street to pay those tuition bills” if he lost the seat for the party. Now Ney, who did step aside, knows what it’s like to share the concerns of everyday, working families.

1. I fear AFV may have missed a very relevant fact in Schwarz’ loss yesterday. Though the conservative, right wing, bible thumpers may not have appreciated his abortion rights agenda, I’ll bet the real kiss of death was that Bush stumped for him.
   
   Regardles of the media spin, the polls still up around 40%, the lost agendas of the far right, and Rove’s assertation that “American’s love this president”, I think that Bush is poison right now.
   
   American’s aren’t as stupid as the politicains and press have made us out to be. We are pissed that this man and the corrupt government he’s produced have swindled us, killed our sons, isolated us from the rest of the world and destroyed our reputation. I think all of America is ready to unite behind a cause, hopefully it will be to rid the government of the crooks and war-mongers. Let us pray that another 9/11 doesn’t happen before the grass roots movement is complete. Let us pray that November brings us enough change to get the cart a ‘tippin’.
   — ronda    Aug 9, 12:56    #
2. I pray that you are right, Ronda, but I fear you’re wrong on one count – that ALL of America is ready to unite behind a cause. Living in a conservative red state, Virginia, I am surrounded by bush lovers – no matter what bad press there is about the administration, they’re still behind him, now as much as ever. I can’t figure it out except that maybe these people are stupid – perhaps ignorant is a kinder term – or maybe they’re just blind and getting their views from Fox 5 News. A lot of military and ex-military live around here so that could also explain some of it – military people have to tow the line no matter what their political views are and eventually become brainwashed to become republicans.
   
   Also, Leiberman didn’t lose by much – what does that say? His defeat should have been resounding if so many Democrats believe the Iraq war was not the way to go. Don’t understand it.
   — jen    Aug 9, 13:54    #
3. Jen,
   
   You’re right that ALL Americans was an overly optimistic view. There are many “ignorant” sheep that feel patriotism is defined by a willingness to follow the leader. But I’m hoping that Schwarz’ loss, a moderate republican backed by Bush, is indicative of a larger common disdain for Bush and the government he created. I WANT to believe that it was Bush’s support for Schwarz that lost him the race. I WANT to believe that 90% of Americans have SOME reason to mistrust this president and by proxy, anyone he supports. I want to believe that we’ve all gotten screwed long enough and hard enough that we begin to smack the sheep next to us and say “Wake up idiot, he’s screwing you too!”
   
   I am not a died in the wool democrat, eeek! sad but true. I think bi-partisan support of sound reasonable, fair policies is possible. But I am horrified by what this man, these senators and representatives, this government, has done and what is trying to do to this country. I heard the the Republican Committee Chairman said Lieberman’s loss was an indication that the Dem’s are embracing an “isolationist”, “blame America first” view. Like beating the rest of the world over the head is an invitation for collaborative teamwork? I don’t think it was, or is, just about the war any more. Bush’s entire agenda is anti – American. I think anybody that stands too close to him will smell of the same unfair, big-oil, corrupt greed that he has.
   
   It’s not just the Dem’s standing up against the Repub’s, it’s our elected officials standing up against “WRONG”.
   — ronda    Aug 9, 14:26    #
4. As I see it, many Dems are as bad as the Repubs. Take Lieberman for example. He lost. It does not matter by how much, fact is, he lost. And what does he plan to do? Does he plan to turn his focus and support towards helping the successful challenger win in order to keep the chair from being occupied by a Republican? Noooo. He is planning to run as an Independent, essentially watering down the vote ala Ralph Nader. Ego and pride are the forces being used as impetus here. Not a pretty sight!
   
   Across the board, I see very few good choices.
   — Dianna    Aug 9, 14:47    #
5. “For the sake of our state, our country and my party, I cannot and will not let that result stand,” Lieberman said of the results.
   
   In other words, he’s not going to let the actual VOTERS decide who they want to represent them.
   
   At least the likes of Ralph Nader, Ross Perot, etc. ran as independent candidates from the start.
   
   Bite the bullet Joe. The PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.
   — Dave    Aug 9, 15:18    #
6. Ronda – I also never considered myself a dyed in the wool Democrat until this Administration’s partisan machinations and the mess that has been made of congress by the republican party made me feel so disenfranchised. Compromise has become an ugly word these days, sad to say. I hope your optimism is borne out at the polls – I also WANT to believe those same things and here’s to a sea change in the next election. May sanity and tolerance and common sense and diplomacy see the light of day once again!
   — jen    Aug 9, 16:27    #
7. I fear that the current crisis in the Mideast could blow up into a huge conflagration, which would be a terrible tragedy for the area and possibly for the world. A nasty side-effect might be another rallying around the “Commander-in- Chief”. Not only would that result in the blind following of a bumbling fool, not helping the international situation, but would also stop any chance for progressive policies to regain a foothold in our domestic programs.
   — Neil S. Hutchens    Aug 9, 23:02    #
8. It is sad that after all Ralph Nader has done for us over the decades, he is still pilloried for running for President and trying to give voters a real choice. THE SUPREME COURT VOTED BUSH INTO OFFICE IN 2000! STOP BLAMING RALPH FOR ALL THE ROTTEN THINGS REPUGS AND DEMS DO!!!
   — John    Aug 10, 10:14    #
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