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The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Tuesday night, President Obama will call for a surge-but also put limits on how long we will stay in Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on why that's exactly the wrong way to get the Afghans primed for battle. Over the past several months, two different...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Building off that Peter Beinart post, Larison diagnoses Lieberman: Looked at from either side of the spectrum, Lieberman has been anything but interesting. He has been the reliable defender of the “centrist” consensus established in the ’90s that finally accepted...
Fruits and Votes (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Robert Farley (building on Peter Beinart ) makes the entirely plausible claim that Sen. Joe Lieberman has shifted to the right since 2006 out of some mix of personal animosity towards the progressive base of the Democratic Party (which ousted him as Democratic candidate in the 2006 primary only to see him win reelection as an independent) and responsiveness to his new electoral coalition...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by Eric Martin "I have long supported the goal of universal health care," Lieberman told reporters. "Ned Lamont can talk about it. I’ve been doing something about it all the time I’ve been here. -2006 Peter Beinarttheorizes as to the...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... a filibuster, Lieberman replied, "correct." On a related topic, in the Daily Beast, Peter Beinart has an interesting article exploring Lieberman's history and his current stance. Beinart asks why, given his record as a liberal on domestic policy, the senator's staking out the position he is, and has this answer: For close to a decade, he got nearly perfect scores...
Connecticut Bob (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... a public person, but I'm fairly confident I haven't burned that bridge just yet!From an article by Peter Beinart discussing Joe's swing to the right in :So why is he doing this? Because he’s bitter. According to former staffers and associates, he was upset by his dismal showing in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary. And he was enraged by the tepid support he got from many party...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Yesterday (11.21) Daily Beast political writer Peter Beinart noted that "in voting to allow debate, conservative Democrats Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas hammered some nails in the coffin of a robust "public option" that would allow the government to compete with private insurers. Both senators stressed that if the Senate bill includes a public...
The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Peter Beinart : [I]n voting to allow debate, Landrieu and Lincoln hammered some nails in the coffin of a robust “public option” that would allow the government to compete with private insurers. Both senators stressed that if the Senate bill includes a public option, they will ultimately oppose the whole thing. And since apostate Democrat-turned-independent Joseph Lieberman...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
As the Senate debates the health-care bill, Joe Lieberman is relishing his role as roadblock. Peter Beinart on how one of the most unpredictable senators became just another right-wing pol. Once upon a time, Joe Lieberman was interesting-not always...
