Word: liebermanically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lieberman is having a not-so-secret affair on his political spouse of the past four decades. The Connecticut Senator - now an Independent, but until 2006 a staunch Democrat, married to the party - is not just campaigning for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain; he is, to even the most objective eye, in a deep state of rapture...
...tough on 'Meet The Press,' but I never felt he was out to knock down government or politicians. He was trying to make us all better. And I think he really did that." - Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn...
...McCain were to take a similar approach, he might pick a No. 2 who has strong national-security credentials or another maverick who defies party labels - perhaps someone like independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. By this standard, Obama might opt for a partner who is young and charismatic and also breaks a historic barrier of race or gender - perhaps Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius - or one who transcends partisan politics, like Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska...
...That was plainly what George W. Bush had in mind in 2000 when he picked Dick Cheney, a seasoned Washington insider with a long foreign policy résumé (who also happened to be heading up Bush's vice-presidential-selection process). And Gore knew that in picking Lieberman, who had been one of Bill Clinton's harshest Democratic critics during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he was buying some distance from the incumbent Commander in Chief...
...Lieberman-Warner, like any cap-and-trade bill, would increase the cost of energy derived from fossil fuels while giving clean, alternative energies an enormous boost. In other words, it would drive up gasoline prices and coal-powered electricity rates in the short term (though by smaller amounts than the doomsayers were claiming last week) while delivering far greater energy savings over the long term - by unleashing a clean energy economy that creates jobs and helps free the U.S from dependence on foreign...