The Senate Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), is holding a hearing on successes and challenges the Department of Homeland Security has faced and now faces. The hearing is one of a number of hearings being held on Capitol Hill in the coming days to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

I’m so old I can remember when Lieberman wanted to expand Medicare. It was in 2009. He endorsed at that time a plan to lower the eligibility age for Medicare to 55 and allow people from 55 to 64 to buy into the program. Then he got wind that liberals liked that idea, and revoked his support, killing the idea when it was on the precipice of passing as part of the Affordable Care Act. Now, in this op-ed, he’s gone completely in the other direction, by endorsing a plan to “raise the Medicare eligibility age every year starting in 2014 by two months until it reaches 67 in 2025.”

I haven’t quite mastered that “party” atmosphere, yet, but you gotta start somewhere. So, without further adieu, I give you the inaugural edition of The Party Line.

(An original Pome by Thersey Thyshhe Therssey. Ahem.)

Faced with the prospect of strong challenges from both sides of the aisle, Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT-Party of One) is set to announce this hour that he will not seek a fifth term in 2012. Word leaked out yesterday after Connecticut’s former Secretary of State, Susan Bysiewicz, announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination (see FDL’s coverage from Ryan, David, and Teddy).

Nobody follows tradition like the Washington Posts and lame obituaries

“Senior Democrats” are urging Lieberman to run again. I mean, what’s not to love?

History repeats itself…and nobody has to learn anything.

Joe Lieberman has introduced what he claims to be a law targeted at WikiLeaks. Problem is, not only would it not endanger WikiLeaks (as far as we know), but it would put both good and bad journalists in jail.

Mike Bloomberg’s new “grassroots” (cough) “centrist” party, No Labels, is off to a smashing start.