As of Sept. 22, Medicare Part D will not cover out-of-pocket prescription expenses between the annual amounts of $2,251 and $5,100, which means seniors could be paying upwards of $3,000 a year for their medications.

Lamont said he would fight for a universal health care plan that allows the federal government to negotiate and obtain the best drug prices for Medicare Part D and all Americans, just as the Veterans’ Administration now is permitted to do. The U.S. could save billions of dollars in drug costs by helping to close the Medicare Part D donut hole, he said.

"If Ned Lamont has a backbone in his body, he will call on these people to cease and desist," Lieberman Barking Head Sean Smith said. "Voters cannot go to our Web site. They cannot access information. It is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise voters."

Marion Steinfels, a Lieberman campaign spokeswoman said that the attack was a denial of service attack designed by the Lamont team to bring down joe2006.com.

"We should discuss his schedule when he's in DC and whether it makes sense to go to Caucus events, etc. or not," wrote a senior Lieberman aide to several other top staffers.

Some Republicans in Westport reported receiving phone calls to attend a fundraiser in town for Lieberman later this month.

And on a personal note, I believe that we have too many writers/pundits who have not engaged directly in politics and who instead just sit back and simply comment on politics from the armchair. They seem to see the actual work of politics as some sort of disgusting behavior that they are too good to get their hands dirty engaging in. I think that is one of the reasons some of these pundits seem so disconnected from reality when they comment on politics - it’s because they actually ARE disconnected from being a part of what winning politics is all about. It’s easy to get things wrong if you’ve never actually worked in the trenches. That’s why, as a writer, I make no apologies for putting my work into actual action.