Joe Lieberman had his going away moment, and no one came. Only one of the other two amigos, Grandpa Walnuts showed up and Senatorette Huckleberry Closetcase was washing her hair. Take it away, Dana Milbank:
It was a lonely farewell for Joe Lieberman.
When the senior senator from Connecticut stood to give his parting address Wednesday afternoon, just one of his colleagues, Delaware Democrat Tom Carper, was with him on the Senate floor.
As Lieberman plodded through his speech, thanking everybody from his wife to the Capitol maintenance crews, a few longtime friends trickled in.
In came John Kerry (Mass.), who bested him in the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries and then, like many Senate Democrats, endorsed Ned Lamont, who tried to oust Lieberman from his Senate seat in 2006.
In came Susan Collins (Maine), Lieberman’s Republican counterpart on the Homeland Security Committee, whom Lieberman supported over a Democrat in her 2008 reelection.
None of this is really surprising. Traitor Joe was a party of one; he stabbed everyone in the back to improve his own position. There was never any constituent greater than himself. He will not be missed.
“I’m going to try something different this year. I’m going to try to stay out of this one,” he said with a laugh. “I’m enjoying not being involved in the nastiness of campaigning in America these days.”
Traitor Joe Lieberman nominally Independent, previously nominally a Dim campaigned for Grandpa Walnuts’ doomed bid for preznint. Before that, he was in the VP slot for our President in Exile Al Gore. Traitor Joe was officially Chimpy’s favorite Dim because he legitimized everything Chimpy wanted. Traitor Joe lost his 2006 primary, created his own Independent Party, and won back his seat, and has screwed every other Dim in revenge for his humiliation. He plans on retiring this cycle.
Quisling turd and holier-than-thou Senator Joe Lieberman is quite angry with Kenyan Usurper Hawaiian Devil Baby Barack Obama. It seems that Traitor Joe wants to call a spade a spade, ahem:
“The administration still refuses to call our enemy in this war by its proper name: violent Islamist extremism.”
Did you know, anytime you say violent Islamist extremism AIPac gives Traitor Joe a buck?
…why we can’t have nice things anymore. A clue: Islam.
I want to indicate today to my colleagues that Senator Coburn and I are working again on a bipartisan proposal to secure Social Security over the long term, we hope to have that done in time. To also forward to the special committee for their consideration. So, bottom line, we can’t protect these entitlements and also have the national defense we need to protect us in a dangerous world while we’re at war with Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11 and will be for a long time to come.
I’m so glad this assrocket is not going up for re-election and is stepping down in 2012.
Two out of three stooges on Fox news wanna bomb Iraq. (Walnuts was on another channel.) So here’s Senatorette Miss Lindsey “Ham Biscuits” Graham and her prince consort Traitor Joe insisting we start a 4th, parallel war in the Mid-East, this time with Iran.
As we said way back in one of the earliest posts, the only winner in our war against Iraq is Iran.
–NBC’s “Meet the Press”: Pre-empted for Wimbledon coverage
–ABC’s “This Week”: Constitution panel with Georgetown University’s Michael Eric Dyson, Harvard University’s Jill Lepore, TIME’s Richard Stengel and ABC’s George Will; immigration panel with Michelle Rhee, former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and former Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas
–CBS’s “Face the Nation”: Gov. John Kasich (R-OH); Gov. Deval Patrick (R-MA); Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI); Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D-Los Angeles)
–”Fox News Sunday”: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); roundtable with The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, FORTUNE’s Nina Easton, Chris Stirewalt and New York Post columnist Kirsten Powers
–CNN’s “State of the Union”: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); roundtable with former AOL Chairman and CEO Steve Case, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, Harlem Children’s Zone President and CEO Geoffrey Canada, personal finance expert Suze Orman and entrepreneur Russell Simmons
–CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS Live (Sun. 10 a.m. ET / 1 p.m. ET): National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; author Bruce Feiler (“Generation Freedom: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World”)
–NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show”: HD Nets Dan Rather, BBC’s Katty Kay, POLITICO’s John F. Harris and CNNs Gloria Borger
A Senate proposal that has become known as the Internet “kill switch” bill was reintroduced this week, with a tweak its backers say eliminates the possibility of an Egypt-style disconnection happening in the United States.
As CNET reported last month, the 221-page bill hands Homeland Security the power to issue decrees to certain privately owned computer systems after the president declares a “national cyberemergency.” A section in the new bill notes that does not include “the authority to shut down the Internet,” and the name of the bill has been changed to include the phrase “Internet freedom.”
That has a strange, Orwellian ring to it, like something from the Chimpy Dynasty, doesn’t it? Who could do such a thing?
“The emergency measures in our bill apply in a precise and targeted way only to our most critical infrastructure,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said yesterday about the legislation she is sponsoring with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn). “We cannot afford to wait for a cyber 9/11 before our government finally realizes the importance of protecting our digital resources.”
Ah, the magic touch of Traitor Joe and Susan Collins, coming up with a way to strip us of our free speech rights. Now it makes sense.
“And my purpose now is to become a lobbyist for AIPAC,” Traitor Joe did not say.
Anyway, Ezra Klein comes not to praise Caesar and whatnot, but still, he tries to find something nice to say and ends up, hysterically with this:
If you look back over the past two years, perhaps the most consequential decision made by President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was to give Joe Lieberman his chairmanship, even though Lieberman had endorsed John McCain in the 2008 campaign.
That kept Lieberman in the fold, and after Arlen Specter switched parties and Al Franken won his election, gave Democrats the 60 votes they needed to break a Republican filibuster against health-care reform. Lieberman’s behavior during the debate was often erratic and seemingly unprincipled. Among other things, he skipped the meetings where Democrats were trying to work out a compromise on the public option, and then he killed the Medicare buy-in proposal they’d developed — despite endorsing that exact proposal months before. In doing so, he doomed a great piece of policy, and by doing it at the last minute, endangered the rest of the bill, too. But the reality is that the legislation simply wouldn’t have passed without his vote. And after extracting his pound of flesh, he voted “aye.”
So when the best you can say is that he was erratic and extracted his pound of flesh, well…
I’m guessing this is BS. Maybe he is not running for re-election as an Independent or a Dim, but I doubt that Mr. I’m Still Relevent will not run as a GOPer. It’s sort of like this past term was his Pre-Op, living as a GOPer, and now he’s gonna get the chop and become one. That or maybe he’s caught up in the Swiss Bank scandal that is breaking.
At any rate, I’m hoping the news is right. I’d love to see his catfish-like mug off the national stage.
The DADT repeal is set to be voted on at noon PT (3PM ET) today. Earlier today the filibuster was defeated (sorry Grandpa Walnuts, but you’re a dinosaur thrashing about in the tar at this point).
If you are active duty in the military, don’t raise your rainbow flag just yet: the repeal really only sets the date for pulling back this Clinton era travesty. You can still be dismissed.
Kudos to Traitor Joe (as much as it kills me to say it), he came through.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who’s been pushing for a vote this weekend on DADT repeal, told MSNBC Thursday that the START treaty would still be ratified by the new Republican-heavy Senate that will be sworn in on Jan. 5 — and thus isn’t as pressing as DADT during the lame duck.
DADT repeal may pass the new Senate, but its prospects are a lot less assured. And besides, whatever bill the next Senate passes (if it does pass a bill) would have to be approved by the new Republican-controlled House, where the chances for repeal are expected to be really grim.
With that in mind, Lieberman said, DADT really should come first. His spokesperson, Erika Masonhall, put the position succinctly.
“The votes for repeal will be there,” she said, referring to the current Congress. “Why delay the vote any longer?”
(TPM — the article, by the way, indicates–shock–that President Carebear is throwing the gays under the bus again.)
Given all the strum and angst over WikiLeaks, it really seems absurd that Traitor Joe is suddenly concerned about Privacy. Could it have something to do with the next WikiLeak target being his true constituents, The Banks?
So Traitor Joe goes after Amazon for hosting WikiLeaks. What’s next, Joe, going after the NYTimes for publishing it? Where does the censorship end. And not to be too much of a Sci-Fi Geek, but isn’t this exactly the story of Mr. Universe on FireFly? You can never completely shut anything down in the digital age. Proof: Bahnhof AB, whose servers are hosting Wikileaks, is based in a former bomb shelter drilled into the mountains of Sweden.
“The service is provided in Sweden–where Swedish law applies,” [CEO Jon] Karlung wrote. “We are not subject to American law, Chinese laws or Iranian laws either, for that matter. WikiLeaks is just a normal business client. We do not treat them any different than any other client.”
Has the United States government reached out to ask you to deny hosting for WikiLeaks? “No.”
Would you revoke hosting capabilities if so? “Of course not.”
Lieberman, using his position as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is pressuring hosts to drop WikiLeaks content on the premise that they’re aiding terrorists. I mean, for Dawg’s sake, calling Interpol on they mysterious Julian because he had consensual sex without a condom? Is that they best that they could do?
You knew this was coming, right? Our beloved independent Dim, that Party of One kinda guy, Traitor Joe has indeed announced that he will do whatever it takes to ensure that the Bush Tax Cuts for the highest earners is renewed.
I don’t think it makes sense to raise any federal taxes during the uncertain economy we are struggling through. The more money we leave in private hands, the quicker our economic recovery will be. And that means I will do everything I can to make sure Congress extends the so-called Bush tax cuts for another year and takes action to prevent the estate tax from rising back to where it was.
We all know that Traitor Joe and Senatorette Miss Lindsey Graham are BFF with Grandpa Walnuts, but how deep is their love? OK, I barfed a little bit in the back of my throat, too.
Anyway, the answer is Pretty Deep!
You see, Traitor Joe has decided that the wealthy (Cindypills McWalnuts and her booze fortune) must be protected from the iron grip of the Kenyan Usurper’s IRS, or little SoyBlo might have to actually earn an honest living with her hair extensions (Hubba-hubba).
In other words, Traitor Joe (Douche – Bankers) wants to continue the Bush Tax Cuts for the very, very rich. Here’s what he said on the radio:
JOYCE: One of the things I’m hearing discussed I’m hearing this from time to time, and I do believe that head of the Fed Bernanke suggested that maybe the tax cuts be put in place the Bush tax cuts, should be kept for the next two years. Where are you on that, and what’s the talk?
LIEBERMAN: I don’t know that he specifically said that, but he’s somebody to listen to [...] We got a long term debt problem as Bernanke said and we gotta begin to bring our government back into balance. Probably in the long term that gonna mean we’re gonna have some more people in higher income levels. But I think that right now, as we’re trying to come out of a bad economy, that would be a mistake. I don’t know if its two years, six months, whether it’s a year, to just hold over these tax cuts so theres more money in the hands of these busineses [sic], small businesses which create most of the jobs, a lot of people are in those upper brackets running those small businesses let’s make sure the economy’s stronger before we start raising taxes again.
…and then two years after that, and two years after that, and then two more years after that…
Remember last week when we reported that Traitor Joe introduced a bill to create an “Off switch for the Internet,” so you know, the President could turn it off like whenever gross bloggers (like Tengrain) said anything bad about Traitor Joe? Me neither!
But anyway, today Traitor Joe is saying, sort of, that everyone misunderstood what he meant.
Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday whether he was trying to “seize control or shut down” the Internet, Lieberman answered “no way” and added that “the government should never take over the Internet.” He cited China, which has long been criticized for its Internet censorship, as an example. “Right now, China can disconnect parts of its Internet in times of war. We need to be able to do that too.”
Oh, well, that’s entirely different. Now let’s don’t go declaring war on Traitor Joe! Imagine all the free porn we would lose out on!
Jeebus, that quisling turd has gotten on my last nerve. Anyway, Traitor Joe continues to not give an endorsement for anyone running for the junior senate seat from his state.
But here is the kicker, in talking about GOP Wingnut and Teabagger Linda McMahon:
You know the first time I met Linda McMahon was around [the subject of pro-wrestling, which he opposed as a good scold would/should ]. I was concerned and I was working with colleagues in the Senate, and Bill Bennett, about the messages that the World Wrestling was sending out to kids. And we had a good conversation. But you know, she’s running for the Senate now, so I’m not gonna hold her accountable for anything she did in the past.
And there you have it, Scissorheads: the record is unimportant in Traitor Joe’s world.
Traitor Joe upset that Faisal Shahzad was read his Miranda rights.
Lieberman said he was trying to amend an old US law “that says that if an American citizen is found to be fighting in the military of a nation with whom we are at war, they lose their citizenship… Any individual apprehended, American citizen, who is found to be involved with a foreign terrorist organization as designated by the Department of State, would be deprived of their citizenship rights.
I wonder if we could apply this idea to Traitor Joe himself, who is more or less an agent of a certain foreign government in the Middle East? That said, I did not realize that we were at war with Pakistan.
So if there is going to be a Green Tea Party, it will have to emerge from a different place — the radical center, a center committed to a radical departure from business as usual. Acting on that impulse, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman had forged a bipartisan climate/energy/jobs bill that deserves an energetic centrist Green Tea Party to support it.
Oh, Jeebus, I’m gonna get a nose bleed from laughing at his killer material. The Radical Center: Kerry, Graham, Lieberman! The Hughy, Dewey, and Screwy of the mediocre.
There were a lot of people, particularly Democrats, who were declaring after the 2008 election that we were beginning a period of Democratic dominance that would go on for decades. Now, all of a sudden, the momentum is with the Republicans. And that’s — thank God — that’s the way people have spoken, you know? That’s our democracy.
If Harry Reid is re-elected, will Joe Lieberman still have all those committee chairmanships next session?
Ho! Ho! Trick Question! When the GOP takes control of the Senate, Traitor Joe will be elected Chancellor, of course.
Traitor Joe (Quisling Turd, Con) said on Sunday said that Yemen could be the ground of America’s next overseas war if Washington does not take preemptive action to root out al-Qaeda interests there. Because, you know, that feisty Independent Democrat has nothing to lose anymore, so why not be Grandpa Walnuts’ best friend and push forward the GOP talking points?
Iraq was yesterday’s war, Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war.
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