VIDEO: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discusses reasons for keeping Joe Lieberman in the Senate Democratic caucus. Reid volunteers that he recently went to Leiberman and said, "Joe, I need money from you." He describes Lieberman responding, "Will $250 thousand be enough?" Lieberman did then give $250 thousand to the DSCC.

Darcy Burner didn't quite get the victory in Washington's primary election last night she was hoping for -- but it was close: Dave Reichert outpolled her only 48-45 percent.

Tomorrow is Washington's primary election. Burner has built up terrific momentum so far -- she's out-raising Reichert by a wide margin and closing the gap in the polls. She's even managed to overcome the loss of her home to fire, thanks to the outpouring of support from around the country and her district. But on Tuesday it will be up to voters on the ground in the 8th District to make that momentum real.

The interns at Shulman for Congress wrote, produced, and starred in "Oilmen For Garrett," a new 5-minute video mocking Republican Congressman Scott Garrett for his dependence on big oil dollars and his petro-friendly voting record.

Jared just won his hard fought primary in a Colorado congressional district north and west of Denver, centered on Boulder. He'll be replacing Mark Udall as the Representative for CO-02 and I have high expectations for much more progressive and innovative leadership. Within moments of Joan Fitz-Gerald's concession, Blue America unanimously endorsed him-- as we promised we would last November.

Judge Bates just issued his opinion in the Miers and Bolten contempt case--and he ruled in favor of the House. Miers will have to appear and Bolten will have to turn over the documents. (I guess all it took was for me to post this post.) This also means Rove will have to appear, as Bates threw out the notion of "absolute immunity." I'll have more shortly.

Even as Norm "pay no attention to the blonde behind the curtain" Coleman, repositioning himself as a Family Values Candidate, runs ads attacking Al Franken over his ties to Playboy, it seems that at least two of Norm’s fellow Minnesota Republican officeholders, Michele Bachmann and Erik Paulsen, were among the beneficiaries of a Texas Republican Pete Sessions’ Forty Deuce strip-club fundraiser! Let's hope he tipped the girls.

HJC voted to hold Rove in contempt, by a vote of 20-14. In doing so, they confirmed many of the points I've made about Rove's audacious claims to be immune from testifying.

In the midst of the Tomnibus debate, Coburn just tried to make the argument that he is, you know, a pure budget hawk who didn't support funding for the war either because he voted "nay" on HR 2642. If you kept your lunch down for that, good for you. Methinks he forgets about a few other votes.

The Senate will vote on cloture on S. 3297 this afternoon. Word is the vote will occur around 4 pm ET. As Kagro says, this cloture vote will show how many pals Sen. Coburn has been able to line up behind his constant obstruction of Senate business. We'd like to help make that as few supporters as possible.