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Joe Lieberman Retiring from the Senate

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.

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In the end, Joe Lieberman decided he didn’t need any more tsuris.

Not that the Connecticut senator would describe his decision to retire with that Yiddish term.

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