Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton might want to reconsider whether “Glory” is his favorite motion picture. Newly salvaged C-SPAN footage from 2002 showing him getting cut off by John McCain on the Senate floor has given Dayton free…
Al Franken says he was only following orders to keep the health-care debate moving when he cut off Joe Lieberman’s speech in the U.S. Senate at the 10-minute mark.
Al Franken cut off Joe Lieberman’s remarks on health care reform on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday. The Connecticut independent had reached the end of his allotted 10 minutes when Franken, presiding over the Senate,…
WASHINGTON — Around 3,000 conservative activists spent Tuesday on Capitol Hill, jamming into the offices of their senators and crowding outside the Senate for a rally sponsored by numerous Tea Party groups. The crowd was as punchy as it had been during any of the anti-Democratic Party events that have defined 2009 for conservatives. It was home, however, to real pessimism about whether activists could really stop health care reform. Optimism focused instead on the 2010 midterm elections — and the chance conservatives will have to punish the Democrats.
As a presidential candidate, Republican John McCain apparently saw former Democrat Joe Lieberman as a strong pick for running mate. Given McCain’s admission that he’s a computer “illiterate” and Lieberman’s cluelessness about technology — revealed at…
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman was in the news last week for applying thumb to nose at former Democratic colleagues who couldn’t quite put their fingers on their backbones to deny him a committee chairmanship. So his appearance over…
The Democrats’ response to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s vigorous campaigning for John McCain, which included the former Democrat taking to CNN to endorse the GOP’s talking point that “Hamas endorsed Obama”: He got to keep his chairmanship and was…
In the last couple weeks, I’ve tried to extract extra political meaning out of all sorts of stuff — Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s growing back his mullet (for a presidential run in 2012?), Al Franken’s traveling to D.C. (to…
Al Franken is in Washington, D.C., today. Why? To meet with Democratic Party leaders, goes the official explanation. But why now, just as the U.S. Senate recount on which his political fate rests is getting under way?
Granted, Franken’s…
Yesterday Norm Coleman’s campaign trotted out Sen. Joe Lieberman to defend his record as chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has been repeatedly criticized by challenger Al Franken. Today the Franken camp released a statement from Sen. Frank Lautenberg (pictured) supporting the Democrat’s assertion that Coleman failed to provide any oversight of fraud and waste stemming from the reconstruction of Iraq.
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