The Connecticut senator will announce his retirement Wednesday. In the end, Howard Kurtz writes, the Democrat-turned-independent never really healed from 2004, 2006, and 2008, though he briefly became a hero of the left by championing the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell.
In the end, Joe Lieberman decided he didn't need any more tsuris.
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Not that the Connecticut senator would describe his decision to retire with that Yiddish term. He will offer a more philosophical explanation when he makes the official announcement Wednesday, a move that a Lieberman aide confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Lieberman, 68, plans to quote a passage from Ecclesiastes, popularized by a Byrds song: "To everything there is a season..."
As a man without a party, the Democrat-turned-independent faced a rocky path to reelection in 2012. The Lieberman aide did not dispute that, while noting that his boss has...
In the end, Joe Lieberman decided he didn't need any more tsuris.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama Won't Touch Gun Control
Not that the Connecticut senator would describe his decision to retire with that Yiddish term. He will offer a more philosophical explanation when he makes the official announcement Wednesday, a move that a Lieberman aide confirmed to The Daily Beast.
Lieberman, 68, plans to quote a passage from Ecclesiastes, popularized by a Byrds song: "To everything there is a season..."
As a man without a party, the Democrat-turned-independent faced a rocky path to reelection in 2012. The Lieberman aide did not dispute that, while noting that his boss has...
- 1/18/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
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