Senator Joe Lieberman has conceded defeat in a primary narrowly won by anti-war Democratic challenger Ned Lamont that is likely to have a big impact on the political scene in 2006…and perhaps 2008: Sen. Joe Lieberman has conceded the U.S. Senate primary to challenger Ned Lamont but vowed to petition his way onto the November ballot as an independent… With 89 percent of precincts counted, challenger Ned Lamont led with 52 percent, or 127,786 votes, to Lieberman’s 48 percent, or...

At this writing, Georgia’s controversial Rep. Cynthia McKinney is trailing her challenger in the runoff by a much bigger margin as Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is trailing his challenger: Early results coming in Tuesday night encouraged Henry C. “Hankâ€? Johnson, the former DeKalb County commissioner who is challenging Rep. Cynthia McKinney in a Democratic race for Congress. As of 10:15 p.m., Johnson had 58 percent of the vote, compared with 42 for McKinney with 51 percent of...

The Hartford Courant: The high and wide spaces of the atrium in the Goodwin Hotel in Hartford were crammed with national and local news reporters milling about with a few dozen Lieberman supporters and operatives, amid bunches of red, white and blue balloons stretching on strings toward the towering columns and arches above them. More than 25 TV cameras on tripods, on three levels of risers, all trained on a podium with a sign that said: “Joe Lieberman Fighting for Connecticut.” Fighting...

One of the most fascinating bits of advice to Democrats comes from MSNBC’s conservative talk show host Joe Scarborough in a long email to the founder of Daily Kos which is run with his permission. In the first part of it, he talks about his experience as a candidate and bad advice he got about how he could only win if he ran as a moderate. And then he writes this: Fast forward twelve years and now we find many making the same misguided arguments, except this time they are giving their stupid...

…it’s an open primary — and it sounds like traditionally controversial Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney is facing a new controversy if you read THIS.

Question: What’s the difference between former Representative Tom DeLay and an albatross? Answer: A beak, 180 pounds and an indictment. Add to that another one now. An albatross doesn’t have to remain on the Texas ballot: The United States Supreme Court dealt a final blow on Monday to efforts by the Texas Republican Party to replace former Representative Tom DeLay on the Congressional ballot in November, leaving him the reluctant party nominee from his longtime district. Three state...

Voters in Connecticut go to the polls today to cast their ballots in one of the most closely watched races in the country: incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman versus his challenger in the Democratic primary, anti-war businessman Ned Lamont. We did an extensive analysis and blog round up on this story HERE. But today, as the Nutmeg state’s registered Democrats (some of them independents who have recently registered to vote as Democrats in this primary) cast their ballots, here are two particularly...

Another poetic work of art from TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet: Economists used to think you couldn’t have inflation when an economy was slowing. Then came the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. Energy costs kicked up other prices causing inflation, and the same energy prices brought about an economic slowdown. Stagflation. Could it happen again… When growth is fast and prices spike The fed gives in’trest rate a hike. When economic numbers slump The fed...

Due to extensive travel, Around The Sphere is postponed for today. We are going to try to do it as a daily feature. So stay tuned. If it doesn’t run every day it will run every other day.

The Huffington Post has become the Strongly Establishedington Post: A group led by venture capital firm Softbank is investing $5 million in the Huffington Post, an online news site and political blog owned by the pundit Arianna Huffington, The Post has learned. The investment comes a little over a year after the launch of the Huffington Post – which then was billed as a celebrity-filled blog but has since evolved in to its own news brand. An announcement of the investment could come as soon...

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This Just In from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz: Recent Heat Wave Turned Al Gore Into Real Pain in the Ass, Friends Say Former Veep Became Insufferable ‘I-Told-You-So’ The recent heat wave that swept the nation transformed former Vice President Al Gore into a “real pain in the ass” who never missed an opportunity to say that he had predicted that global warming would create uncomfortably high temperatures, friends of Mr. Gore complained today. Travis Spivack, a life-long...

This has been reposted from yesterday at the top of this site due to interest and an update. Tuesday is truly “D-Day� for Joe Lieberman and the Democratic Party. For Lieberman, will it be the day Democrats defeat his re-nomination bid and send him (and others) a message that he is outside what many anti-war and anti-Bush Democrats believe is the Democratic party’s new, majority-supported mainstream? Will it be the day he must define himself as an independent who will run against...

Our periodic linkfest offering you links from sites of VARYING opinions. Posts linked do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice or the co-bloggers. The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol Is Pondering Lieberman, The Democrats And Other Matters and Ron Beasley has some thoughts on Kristol. Kristol’s quoted comments reflect part of the problem Lieberman now faces (Democrats who vote read how beloved Lieberman increasingly is with Bush-supporting Republicans). In Georgia,...

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz: Bush Urges Bin Laden to Take August Off Warns Terror Leader of Burnout Having begun his month-long summer vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, President George W. Bush used his weekly radio address on Saturday to urge Osama bin Laden to take the month of August off as well. President Bush said he was taking the “extreme step” of “slipping out of vacation mode for a few seconds” to address the al-Qaeda leader directly. “I...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were something of an oddity for a comedy team: they actually LIKED each other. Some others (vaudeville’s Smith & Dale; burlesque-originated Abbott & Costello; nightclub-originated Martin & Lewis)were famous for their behind-the-scenes quarrels, rivalries and/or tensions. But not Laurel & Hardy. They enjoyed each other’s company and not only made movies but were highly successful stage performers, when they appeared anywhere early in their...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were something of an oddity for a comedy team: they actually LIKED each other. Some others (vaudeville’s Smith & Dale; burlesque-originated Abbott & Costello; nightclub-originated Martin & Lewis)were famous for their behind-the-scenes quarrels, rivalries and/or tensions. But not Laurel & Hardy. They enjoyed each other’s company and not only made movies but were highly successful stage performers, when they appeared anywhere early in their...

The controversy continues.

Our periodic linkfest offering you links from sites of VARYING opinions. Posts linked do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice or the co-bloggers. A Debate Over Faith-Based Politics (have faith in GWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld no matter what) is at the root of a heated debate between Andrew Sullivan and Hugh Hewitt. And we agree with Sullivan: American politics has a lot of “true believers” who seem to be more into a political cult of personality rather than a set of principles...

When Herbert Buckingham Khaury died in 1996 it was a big news story. And who in 1968 would have ever thought that when he made his major TV debut on the hit show Laugh In using his stage name Tiny Tim that he would have been more than a one-shot novelty act? After all, he sang the 1920s song “Tip Toe Through The Tulips” in a falsetto voice heavily laced with vibrato (his real voice wasn’t falsetto, but he occasionally used it for impact…and he always had lots of vibrato)....