Day: August 9, 2006

By DALE McFEATTERS

Six years ago, Joe Lieberman was a few Florida votes shy of being the next vice president of the United States. Just two years ago, he was a credible candidate for his party’s presidential nomination.

Tuesday, the three-term senator, respected and well-liked by his peers in Congress, suffered the humiliation of defeat in Connecticut’s Democratic primary at the hands of Ned Lamont, a novice with deep pockets whose political resume consists largely of a failed state-senate race.

By John Whitesides

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s defeat in Connecticut offered tangible evidence of Democratic anger with President George W. Bush and the Iraq war and could be an early sign of a strong anti-incumbent mood before November’s election, analysts said on Wednesday.

By CLIFFORD D. MAY

Until this week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman was the most prominent representative of the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic Party. Now, that wing is down to its last few feathers.

Uh oh. Condi Rice is in trouble. Her boss, President George W. Bush, just said publicly what a great job she is doing. That’s what he always says just before he fires someone.

By John Whitesides

Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman lost a Democratic Party showdown to a relative unknown on Tuesday, a casualty of voter anger over his support for the war in Iraq and President George W. Bush.

By Matthew Bigg

Democrat Cynthia McKinney, Georgia’s first African American congresswoman, lost her primary run-off race on Tuesday, paying a price for strident rhetoric and a failure to galvanize supporters.

By Matthew Bigg

A CIA contractor accused of beating an Afghan prisoner so badly that he later died told a colleague afterward that he had kicked the detainee in the groin, a prosecution witness told a federal court on Tuesday.

Political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel would not face prosecution for humiliating or degrading wartime prisoners under amendments to a war crimes law drafted by the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat on Tuesday called on Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson to resign after the department disclosed that another batch of personal information on veterans was missing.

By DALE McFEATTERS

Karl Marx is not someone who comes to mind as a commentator on Republican Party politics, but his observation that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, is proving singularly apt for the GOP as the fall elections approach.