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Sometimes you can be too far ahead of the curve and you have to wait for time and circumstance to catch up with you.
Unfortunately for America, Connecticut voters aren't casting their votes today in the Lieberman/Lamont race because if they were, Ned Lamont would win and the US Senate would be rid of the pathological, warmongering narcissist Joe Lieberman (CFL-AIPAC).
The poll, commissioned by Daily Kos, found that Ned would handily beat Joe by 8 points today. That Ned was willing to enter the race last year when the geniuses at the head of the Democratic Party were telling everyone to shut up about the war, put his own money into challenging the war lobby by beating its own toad prince in the primary and then fighting him and his Democratic Senate buddies in the general, is to his credit. He awakened the shiftless and the recalcitrant up to the reality that the party's voters wanted their candidates to do more than smile, kiss babies and be Not Republican. We want them to end the war.
We owe him and everyone who worked on his behalf a great debt of gratitude.
Thanks, Ned.
(If you're a Connecticut resident, you might want to hit the "spotlight" button at the end of the post and contact your local Connecticut media to let them know you'd like to see this poll covered.)
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Jane!
I keep getting EPU’d…
BADA BING!
Biodun @ 1
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Joe-Lie, who left the Democratic Party when he decided to run as an Independent after he was defeated in the Democratic primary in CT.
Do you think Ned cheated? [edit: I meant “did JOE cheat”?]
NED!
I saw this story up on Kos a little while ago and thought to myself, “Hmm, I’ll bet Jane Hamsher’s going to find this interesting…”
Jane!
If the Republics hadn’t cheated in 2000 (which is not possible by any entity owned by the Bush family), HoJo might be the leading Dem candidate for 2008. Is it a small silver lining that he is not?
What a gentleman Ned is. I had the pleasure of meeting him in Chicago.
I was really disappointed when Ned wasn’t able to win the race after he got the Democratic nomination. I really, really, really wish Lie-berman was OUT. Instead, we’re stuck for six more years.
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holy joe says no more toe tapping with Iran. joe says no to a military draft. and no to going GOoPer!!! wtf gives? get the f out oh..
Why is Lieberman able to draft a Senate resolution paving the way for war against Iran that is adopted unanimously?
Seems all the Senate (D)’s can get behind something, sometimes.
Hows that for unity?
Kind of a sad state of affairs we are living. We know that our president is going to tell us lie after lie tonight. How did it come to this in America?
sporkovat @ 15
That still shocks me.
Jane Hamsher @ 17
Why do you think it happened that way? No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
sporkovat @ 15
Link?
I want to see this.
my usual circumspect assessment of Joe Lieberman yields, today, to a big fat F*ck you, HoJo!
Thanks DailyKos, for paying for the poll. Polls are friggen expensive, and no one in the MSM or any of the well-funded think tanks had any interest in doing this, apparently.
It’s an important poll, though, and I hope it gets picked up in the local CT and national media.
“We owe him and everyone who worked on his behalf a great debt of gratitude.”
That includes you, Jane.
Tim
Aye punaise, well said.
Bustednuckles @ 19
egad! here is his release p.r.
Well I have a fever and I am supposed to be sleeping and not just being on the internet. So I will see you later. Bye.
Thanks Petwrecker.
BRB
Bustednuckles @ 23
He does have a way of turning a phrase.
SnarKassandra @ 25
Get yourself well!
For a brief shining moment, thanks to Ned, there was hope. thank you, Ned Lamont.
SnarKassandra @ 25
Hope I didn’t give it to you! Sleep tight.
(No, we don’t think Ned cheated. If he had, then Lieberman would be gone, eh?)
AZ Matt @ 27
set your phrasers to ’stun’
Well I sincerely hope Ned takes another crack at it.
FDL convinced me that Lieberman was beyond retrieval. FDL and its allies were right and the DLC types were wrong. Glad I sent in some money for Lamont.
I guess this is making the rounds: McConnell lied about Bush’s weird mystery-meat intel program helping out in arrest of German terrorist suspects.
McConnell Retracts False Statement
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053085.php
FDL and other blogs are right that you have to be aggressive in getting the truth and word out to voters. So many lies, so many failures and frauds. How do you keep track. People who have to work and take care of family have a hard time keeping up with this. Some of that is because so many have to work two jobs just to pay bills and keep from getting shafted at work these days (even the profs! see Tula Connell).
I try and follow this stuff, but I have to work. Who is McConnell again? He runs the CIA, or he is another national security something or other pooh-bah? Important for people to know that he either is another liar in the bush administration, or another bush boss who can’t keep track of important things going on under his nose. Either one is bad. People need to know.
the part idon’t get is why the people voted for Joe after he LOST a primary. good night.
ttagaris @ 22
Thanks to everyone who worked on Ned’s behalf. At least HoJo got proven the fraud he is.
SnarKassandra @ 7
I meant “did JOE cheat”?
SnarKassandra @ 34
If you look at the cross tabs, it was the old white guys who stayed with Joe. The ones that had been voting for him for 30 years. I guess they refused to believe he crossed to the dark side.
From petwrecker’s link @ 24:
My bold. The company you keep. ‘Nuf said. Interesting to see my weasel senator Coleman on the list as well.
SnarKassandra @ 36
Ahhhhh, that makes more sense.
As I recall, once Joe went Independent, he picked up Republican votes, as the Republican candidate in CT was either nonexistent or extremely weak. But only registered Dems vote in the nomination of the Dem candidate, and Lamont won that.
My bold.
Now there is a crowd of , well, I just won’t use the words I was thinking, but you know what I’m thinking.
So 97 to 0 , all in favor of sword rattling agreed.
punaise @ 31
Capt. Kirk could use you.
Has anyone ever been ever to get an answer out of Reid as to why he allows Joe to keep his committee positions? It is that magical beltway thinking that we are trying to destroy.
Ned Lamont will go down in history as a hero, while holey Joe will be on the losing side.
Bustednuckles @ 19
http://www.senate.gov/legislat.....vote=00242
wesgpc @ 33
McConnell is the Director Of Central Intelligence (DCI), a cabinet level position created to supposedly get all the intel orgs under one umbrella. CIA is under him now rather than as a separate stand alone. He is, I believe, an active Air Force general (although he may be3 retired but don’t think so). He is in the position that Negroponte gave up to step backwards into a deputy at State.
Joe made a deal to keep his assignments—Reid had the choice of giving them to him or losing the senate. There was really no choice.
ttagaris @ 22
And you too, Tim.
Why don’t the people of CT recall LIEberman? I would like to start a recall movement on Chuck Grassley here in Iowa but alas Iowa has no recall law for senators.
don’t tell me this is part of the september roll-out?
You are so right Jane. I am grateful that Ned had the courage to challenge that hypocritical sack-of-shit Joementum. In my mind, at least, we owe Jim Webb a similar salute. Nobody but Jim thought that George Allen could be beaten, but the Dems control the Senate today because of Webb’s courage.
Joe won’t get elected to his seat again..don’t know what other career interests he has in mind- more time with the family I suppose.
It’s a cryin’ shame that Ned lost, imagine the good that he could have done,instead of that sanctimonious gasbag piece of shit Short ride giving us all the shaft.
I really, really despise that son of a bitch.
Thanks Ned. Many of us were in shock with Conneticut’s vote for Lie berman
Bustednuckles @ 51
don’t hold back, Busted, tell us how you really feel
Wes @ 47
There are no recall provisions for “Federal Officers” which includes Senators and Representatives. Once seated, it is up to the body itself to expel them for just cause.
wesgpc @ 33
Mike McConnell is the DNI (Director of National Intelligence) the big cheese, the guy who is supposed to be over all of our intelligence agencies. Negroponte had the job before him. McConnell is the one who negotiated a deal with Democrats on FISA then when the WH objected, reneged on it, and helped stampede the Congress into gutting FISA entirely. He tried to say that gutting FISA hepled lead to the arrests of 3 Germans who were plotting to attack our big air base in Frankfurt. Except the Germans leaked that information generated by the Americans was produced months ago using the old FISA law. McConnell is a lying sack of sh*t and hack lackey of this Administration.
Bustednuckles @ 40
How in the hell does anyone in Congress possibly think we could go to war in Iran, is beyond comprehension. What in holy hell are the dems thinking. Seriously….. WTF!!?!!
dakine01 @ 54
Thanks for the info.
rwcole @ 50
Before or after he becomes a Republican?
thank you, ned. thank you, ned’s family, thank you, jane. thank you, ct bloggers. thank you maxine.
let’s hope ned is willing to make a come back next election cycle
Are you going to come back in Ned? I will donate
tbsa @ 56
It was just a resolution requiring a report be written. Anyone who might have opposed it probably didn’t think it was worth their time and effort to oppose it because it didn’t really do anyting, except of course help lay the groundwork for a possible attack on Iran.
perris @ 60
that seat isn’t up until 2012. it wil be interesting to see what Ned does in the interim to stay politically engaged, if he so chooses.
Now that I’ve vented my spleen some, Don’t worry punaise, I don’t hold back for that guy,I would like to thank Jane for being so far ahead of the curve.
All by her lonesome she helped make Ned a household name here at the lake.She went so far as to move to Connecticut and do all she could.
Thats is a strong example of conviction.
Kudos madam. Take a bow.
sporkovat @ 15
He’s too busy cleaning up the Katrina mess. One house at a time.
Bustednuckles @ 64
ding!
ccmask @ 65
One c*s*no at a time, surely?
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I believe a lot of people are/were still afraid of the “radical left wing bloggosphere” aka DFH. You hear it and see it when they routinely accuse us of wanting socialized medicine (so?) or whatever. The noise machine is nothing, if not effective.
That certainly played into Hojo’s hands. They try to marginalize us but as Gandhi so prophetically said; “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!”
Erm…I meant to trim that last #70 down to point 4 in the quote…any lurking or otherwise mods, feel free to trim…
petwrecker @ 69
Gas shortages IN Iran? Oy.
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I followed the Lamont Senate campaign from the first- Jane’s post, with Howie saying “Lamont’s the real deal”. Followed it avidly.
It really was the most important national race in 2006. Ned, and everyone who worked officially or or officially to get him elected were incredibly dedicated and principled and (well I could go on and on).
Ned got zero or next to zero support from the “Dem establishment” during and after the primary. Big Bill Clinton, Ms. Clinton, Schumer, Boxer, etc. betrayed him. Real eye-opener to me as to what Jane calls “the incumbency protection racket”.
I’m close to tears thinking about “what might have been”.
peanutbutter @ 69
Plenty of oil. No refining capacity. They must import all fuel oil.
Bustednuckles @ 40 -
the anti-iran bill in the House, h.con.res.21, passed 411 - 2 in june… and they don’t even have a lieberman to blame.
SOmething’s odd — we’re up to at least comment 70, but a hard refresh on my browser keeps going to 51 comments (and a refresh comments button then pulls the rest up).
Just data points for the wizard behind the curtain ;-)
Valley Girl,
Did you get my email?
Hugh @ 62
beyond disgusting– Lieberliar’s stroking of Petraeus and Crocker the other day was indicative of his twisted brain and priorities… oh and Nancy, when are you planning on taking Iran “off the table” ???
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004151.php
Thank you Ned– too bad the Rethuglican Rovian et al slime machine went after this very decent Democratic American and supported their very own chickenhawk.
Thank you Jane.
JF @ 73
Hmph. If I were them I’d be concentrating mightily on developing refineries…
Bustednuckles @ 75
Got one a good while back. Not one lately. When did you send it?
peanutbutter @ 75
Valley Girl @ 71
yes but…. this may seem very strange to you, but it was a time of real hope for me… that decent people can run for office, that decent people can work within the system to effect real change. and some of the hope i found in volunteering for that campaign is with me still.
i am very grateful to jane, because without her encouragement i would never have had the pleasure and honor of working, even in some small way, to support what ned and everyone else was trying to do. it was inspiring.
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Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Patriots:
Of all the tremendous lessons we learned and political knowledge we gained in the Lamont-Likuderman match up maybe none is more important than the role the Clintons and the corporatist Democrats played. We not only got a good look at the corporate war machine that has controlled the Democratic Party since the mid ’40’s but we got a real good look at the Democratic Party leadership…we shouldn’t be surprised at Reid and Pelosi or at the role Rahm Emmanuel and Chuck Schumer are playin in pullin’ the strings and playin money laundry from A*P*C to get Mrs. Bush III elected in 2008.
After the 2006 Connecticut Senate race and now after Mrs. Clinton gets exposed holdin almost a million of corporate pass-thru, no one with even 3 brain cellz left can make any kind of a case for a vote for Mrs. Clinton for anythin above federal dog-catcher.
Keep up the good work Jane…you are a straight shooter…are ya sure yer not Norwegian?
KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T FEAR THE BASTARDS AS LONG AS THE SUN RISES IN THE EAST!!
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Boxer especially blew me away! I couldn’t believe it. They talk out of one side of their mouth to us, then stump for a person like Joe over Ned.
I am extremely skeptical of any election using optical scanners or any form of electronic voting, paper trail or no. I simply assume, at this point, that most of our states’ elections are rigged, to various degrees.
As for the debacle of joe’s “victory” in CT - did we ever hear any accounting of the money that went missing as petty cash - to the tune of a couple hundred thousand IIRC?
If the dems had made a solid effort to elect Ned one of two things would have happened:
1) Ned would have won
2) Joe would have won and would have gone gooper and dems would not control the senate.
No way of knowing which would have happened—Joe won by enough that option two is a very real possibility- perhaps the most likely.
OK MODERATORS…WHERE’S MY POST??!!!
Yesterday.
You crack me up Norske.
Ouch
Jane on behalf of everyone in CT I want to thank you and FDL all you did to put this on the national radar. You are the best.
nonplussed @ 81
yes, but it’s better know where people stand… and don’t forget maxine waters and all the campaigning she did for ned. she was wonderful.
sporkovat @ 15
Hey Joe why don’t you sponser something mentioning the number of Saudi’s captured in Iraq working for Al Queida, or if your really worried about nukes Pakistan?
For a supposed defender of Israel you really do act like your on the Al Queida payroll.
Long live Ned Lamont!
If this country ever puts itself to rights again, someone should remember Ned and put a statue of him up in some quiet Connecticut park.
He led the way. And it was that important. And his loss doesn’t matter.
selise @ 80
Selise, no, doesn’t seem strange to me. I felt the same- a time of real hope. And it was inspiring. I think my tears reflect, in part, the fact that those moments of hope don’t seem to come along all that often. And Ned really was/ is “the real deal”.
August 8, 2006 is THE day I became hopeful for America, again, and knew that blogs were powerful, too.
Thanks, Ned and Jane!
selise @ 81
I agree. I think it showed the way of the future too, which was absolutely electrifying. I didn’t participate in comments then, but I did follow the Ned Lamont thing because it was so unprecedented…and hopeful.
What’s “CFL”? As for the other acronym, I no longer recognize it without the asterisks.
Ned got enough name recognition last time around that if he chooses to run again, he’ll have a good shot…
Would have been nice to have him in Joe’s seat- but at least dems held the senate–and that was VERY important…
It all worked out OK.
Maybe in five years we’ll have a senator Ned.
brendan @ 95
“Connecticut for Lieberman”, HoJo’s just-add-water party of one as an independent. Note that it is not LFC.
Some time ago [after 2006], there was legislation in CT to mandate a Special Election, rather than a choice by the governor, if CT’s Senator “left” [for whatever reason].
Any word on what the status is of that legislation? [CT currently has a Republican governor. That was one of the reasons Holy Joe could contemplate “leaving” to be AG or whatever.]
Maybe Ned could move to another state where he is needed…
Jane’s Assistant @ 87
Jane is the Best!
I’m from out of state, so I only was able to work as a volunteer for a week. For my part, I can say that whatever work I did was more than well rewarded. So, the thanks go to you.
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Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Patriots:
Thanx again Jane for the post. I am moved to think that maybe there is a very large chunk of historical irony waitin’ fer Mrs. Clinton as a result of her pullin’ the strings for Ol’ Joe in ‘06. If Chris Dodd and John Edwards could draw attention to Mrs. Clinton’s questionable corporate funding and her role in gettin Likuderman re-elected, it might jest be enough to expose the wicked witch from Illinois.
Wouldn’t that be grand??!! Irony’s a bitch (and then ya die)!!
KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T TAKE ANYMORE SHIT…THE GHOSTS OF SOLDIERS PAST ARE WATCHIN’ US!!
But no one wants to end the war more than Joe Lieberman.
Lying satchel of excrement.
-GSD
Jane Hamsher @ 19
For years the objective of the NeoCons has been to control both parties. They aimed at power beh