“If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England,” Mr. Lieberman said at a campaign event at lunchtime in Waterbury, Conn. “It will strengthen them and they will strike again.”

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• Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman lost the Democratic primary last night to Ned Lamont. He will run as a “petitioning Democrat,” which is a thing he made up. [NYT, WP]

• Representative Cynthia McKinney lost her primary runoff to Hank Johnson in Georgia, signalling the end of her vaunted “political machine.” [AJC, AJC]
• The White House will call on Congress to alter the War Crimes act to eliminate the threat of prosecution for “political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners.” [WP]
• The Fed is done raising interest rates (for now). [NYT]
• Despite being forced to remain on the ballot, Tom DeLay will not seek reelection to Congress. [NYT]

Pictures: Getty Images.

Things sound great for Lamont, but administer salt in liberal doses. (1% of precints reporting: 57.9% to 42.1% for Ned)

Absentee ballots and turnout are both pro-Lamont, exit polling is closely-guarded, but people who know people who know people say it’s the same story.

(Hotline has McKinney down — WHERE WERE THE WONKETTE READERS?)

(rest of this mess now after the jump — relive the magic!)

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THIS JUST IN: TOTALLY NON-CRAPPY WEB HOSTING COMPANY WANTS TO SUE US: MORE »

Someone launched a Denial of Service Attack against Joe Liebmerman’s website. Did you hear? No? Because it’s THE BIGGEST ELECTION SCANDAL IN THE ELECTORAL HISTORY OF ELECTIONS. MORE »

ONE VOTER AT A TIME, NED! We know this is probably the first time you’ve voted, but read the damn instructions! Your daughter’s gonna be too embarrassed to vote against you if you insist on watching her. MORE »

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• Al Sharpton’s descent into madness reaches new milestone with incorporation of the “Space Jam” theme song into Connecticut rally speech. [Hartford Courant]

• Dilbert creator longs to be a cog in the machine. [Dilbert Blog]
• A convenient truth: global warming is producing new premium beers. [BBC]
• Intern humiliates DHS by creating informative website in two flip-flop-wearing months. [Boing Boing]
• If Smith Point advertised on television, this it what it would look like. [Logged Hours]
• Some days Tony Snow wishes he was still asking the questions, instead of not answering them. [Boozhy]
• National Conservative Student Conference peddling masturbatory fodder to “baby wingnuts.” [Pandagon]