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...when people I don't like adopt positions that I don't like. Less cognitive dissonance! So I was very glad to see Holy Joe Liebe...

Holy Joe's retirement closes the book, more or less, on a great question: was the decision by liberals to go all in on the primary chall...

It goes to Ezra Klein, for noticing : That seems less weird when you know that Lieberman -- an independent -- votes with the Democrats 90 p...

I haven't commented yet on the news that Joe Lieberman is carrying the bill to repeal DADT . For all of those who were upset that the ...

So, Holy Joe seems to have what he wants -- if he'll stick to a yes this time. Looks like we're going to have a health care bill in...

Jonathan Chait's Lieberman blogging today (we're all posting about Holy Joe today; if that's his goal, well played!) contains a...

You know the first part. On Sunday, Lieberman double-crossed the Dems on health care. Again. It's hard to argue with Ezra Klein's...

Jonathan Chait ridicules Bill Kristol today for "sucking up to" Joe Lieberman. Chait is mostly concerned with how silly Kristol ...

Liberals are up in arms , and with some reason, because Joe Lieberman is insisting that the Democrats running for president last year, incl...

I can't say I'm a big fan of the Tea Party types, or of Michele Bachmann in particular...but I do have to say that I like today'...

I almost never disagree with Ta-Nesihi Coates, but I will this time, at least on one narrow point : I was in the camp of people who thought ...

There have been basically two reactions from health care reform supporters to Holy Joe's comments yesterday indicating that he might opp...

So thinks Ezra Klein , based on this from the New Haven Register : Lieberman said he was “inclined to let the motion to proceed” (or cloture...

Two comments on the question Yglesias raises about ideological purges. First, it's just par for the course that liberals are upset that...