Some good news

Reverse Joementum:

BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, facing a backlash in his own party for supporting the Iraq war, has been overtaken by a political novice in Connecticut's Democratic Senate primary, a poll showed on Thursday.
The three-term senator and vice presidential nominee in 2000 has support of 47 percent of likely Democratic voters against 51 percent for Ned Lamont, a millionaire who gained on Lieberman by portraying him as too supportive of President George W. Bush, the Quinnipiac University poll showed.

Hammer declawed:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.

Couldn't happen to nicer guys.