Lieberman's precarious future
By Steve Benen Thursday Jul 10, 2008 6:20pmIn April, Joe Lieberman explained that he’s open to delivering the keynote address at the Republican National Convention in September. “If Sen. McCain, who I support so strongly, asked me to do it, if he thinks it will help him, I will,” Lieberman told The Hill. (The remarks came just days after Lieberman praised Rush Limbaugh for his “love for our country and support for our troops,” adding, “Rush has a big voice but he has heart that is even bigger.”)
At the time, the Democratic Senate leadership didn’t seem prepared to do anything about Lieberman’s antics. Asked whether Lieberman’s chairmanship was at risk in the next Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid said succinctly, “No.”
A Lieberman aide told The Hill in May, “Sen. Reid has made it clear that the chairmanship is absolutely not in jeopardy.”
If I were Lieberman, I wouldn't count on that.
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Is it just me or does milquetoast sound like soggy breakfast food?
I hear they are planning to have Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond stuffed and propped up at the entrance.
Harry Reid is my Senator and I think he is just a huge pussy for not having cut Lieberman's balls off long ago.
LIEberman is no different than most of them. He's just more transparent. He's waiting for McCain or Obama to ask him to be VP.
angryspittle @ 4:
so why don't you cut Harry's balls off?
:)
angryspittle @ 4:
Reid is my senator as well. Totally pissed at his weakness.
(The remarks came just days after Lieberman praised Rush Limbaugh for his “love for our country and support for our troops,” adding, “Rush has a big voice but he has heart that is even bigger.”)
Shouldn't that be: "Rush has a big voice but he has an ASS that is even bigger.”
angryspittle @ 4:
His hands are tied. If he fucks with Lieberman then Lieberman goes over to the Republican side (officially) and the Dems do not have a majority in the Senate. Watch for the door on Lieberman to slam shut right after the election.
Just why the fuck is it that the fucking Reptiles can stop any fucking they want but the Dems in the majority let all this shit go through??
God Damn am I sick of their craven cave-ins again and again and again.
Harry knows how the fucking Senate works. Jesus, why does he even allow half of this shit to come up for a fucking vote?
Harry Reid is a bad-ass under that calm exterior. He will not tolerate Lieberman giving a keynote address. If Joe proceeds, expect some sort of showdown!
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As Obama's VP?
just askin'
Because Reid has no balls (is it possible that Jesse Jackson cut them off?) and won't do anything with Holy Joe this year, perhaps Obama will get rid of him and his buddy Lousyman next year?
Obama is just another corporate approved and vetted candidate. Nothing is gonna change if he gets in. Well, yeah, something will. At least we will have an articulate corporate whore in the Oval office.
From the Carpetbagger Report:
Maybe Lieberman will just move to Israel.
ysbaddaden @ 2:
It's not just for breakfast anymore!
angryspittle @ 4:
You think YOU got problems? John McWarbucks and Jon Kyl are my senators! ecch
angryspittle @ 10:
One more time;
If they fuck with Lieberman he officially turns Republican from an Independent and the Democrats do not have a majority in the Senate.
Capt. Bitter.
So fucking what???
The fucking reptiles get what the fuck they want anyway......
At least then the Dems would have a fucking excuse.
http://liebermanmustgo.com/
If you want to help everyone, and not just McCain, move to Israel, because you obviously love that country more than the USA, Joe.
He's one smarmy SOB. I hope he chokes on a matzoh ball. If his wife uses my mother's recipe, we'll have a funeral Monday fer sure. Braver men than he have tried to digest even one without success.
16 Mickxotic Says: ysbaddaden @ 2:
Is it just me or does milquetoast sound like soggy breakfast food?
It’s not just for breakfast anymore!
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mccain carries it around with him all the time in his Depends
At least that's what he hopes he's feeling.
angryspittle @ 20:
There is that!
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 18:
wtf hes probably going to pull another zell miller at the repig convention anyway,
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 9:
That doesn't hold water anymore. The dems will have a more substantial majority after November, so there is no reason to kiss Loserman's ass any longer. He should lose his chair since he abandoned the party and chose to hitch his wagon to the GOP.
But it's not like Reid isn't a GOP sycophant as well. He needs to lose his status as majority leader. Pelosi needs the boot too.
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democrat or republican...nobody messes with aipac.
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The people of Connecticut can solve this dilemma...
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Harry Reid's only challenge for biggest wimp is Nancy Pelosi.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 9:
I'm not sure I understand. If Joe Lie is a Dem, Indy, or Reptile and votes with the Reptiles doesn't he become a Reptile? Then we don't have to give a damn. Connecticut voters do though. Where the hell are they?
Is he being paid off by someone?
The first order of business for Senate Democrats in January should be to find themselves a new majority leader. Reid is pathetic. If the Dems can find the spine to choose a majority leader worthy of the name, Lieberman will get what's coming to him. My guess is that Joe figures his best case scenario is for McCain to win and give him his thirty pieces of silver in the form of a cabinet position (Secretary of Self-Righteousness?).
I don't see Joe switching to the GOP and remaining in the Senate. He could retire, take a couple of years off, and then start earning millions lobbying for the defense industry and Israel.
If Obama wins and the Dems increase their hold on the Senate, then Joe could be put in charge of a new committee -- Oversight of the Democratic Spine. Of course, first they'll have to find it and there is very little evidence it even exists. Oversight of something that doesn't exist would fit Joe's talents extremely well. If such a committee were formed it wouldn't be difficult to fill its Democratic seats: Lieberman (chair); Salazar, CO; Nelson, NE; Nelson, FL; Reid, NV; Rockefeller, WV; Feinstein, CA; and undoubtedly one or more of the newly-elected Democrats. (The list is off the top of my head and isn't meant to represent the worst of the worst, just a few who've earned the honor.)
If Reid remains in charge, I'd expect to see the Republicans continue to run the Senate.
The democratic party caved on FISA, and the Patriot Act, and the Iraq War Resolution, and the Bankruptcy Bill, and enforcing committee subpoenas (to name but a few of their greatest hits), but LOOK OUT! They just might... maybe... perhaps... be on the verge of chastising Joe Lieberman.
Is anyone reading this proud to be a democrat? If so, please explain why.
lj @ 34:
If the Democrats do not have a majority (literally) then they do not get to run the show (appoint committee chairmen, bring bills to the floor, just run the show and Reid would not be Head Senator or whatever they call him.(I call him a piece of shit)). Even though it has not seemed to matter lately.
lj @ 34:
If I lived in Conneticut, I would want to make sure I wasn't voting on a Diebold machine or votes counted on their scanners.
oh really @ 32:
That was very well put. I just thought yoiu deserved something for putting it so succinctly.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 37:
You mean that Joe Lie is a neutral and therefore gives the Dems a majority. Right, I forgot. Thanks.
I don't think that Lieberman constitutes a repeat of Zell Miller during the 2004 convention. Lieberman is symbolic of the neocon agenda of nation building, dubbed by McCain as "rouge nation rollback". I think the American people are nation building and the borrow and spend economics that pays for it, causing the current inflation. I think the American people are cluing in that spending half the world's military expenditures is bankrupting this country. I think the American people *now* would have rather we had focused on the people who hit us on Sept 11, 2001, namely, Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The Republican's can only win if the election focuses on gays, flag lapel pins, English as a primary language, preachers, and any other wedge issue that they can cook up. I don't see an advantage to them in focusing on the neocon nation building agenda that Lieberman represents.
The Republicans will talk about loosing a major city to terrorism, and so we need to spend even more on a military buildup. What's it now $600B/year? But, even as more and more Americans lose health coverage, we lose the equivalent of an American city year in and year out to cancer alone. So Bush cuts research funding to the National Institutes of Health to $5B. While the private sector may produce regimes from anything from restless leg syndrome to irritable bowel syndrome, the private sector isn't going to produce cures because there is no recurring revenue flow in a cure, and hence won't enhance shareholder value. So maybe one choice we need to advocate for is a full fledged war on cancer. Health care costs are going to continue to spiral until cures are produced.
This election is about choices. The Republicans are wrong on borrow and spend economics, foreign policy, nation building, the environment, health care and so forth. Lieberman is symbolic of an issue that they're wrong on, namely nation building, and an inability to recognize true threats to our national security. So go ahead and talk Joe.
Reid should be ashamed.
If Lieberman isn't careful Harry Reid will give him a hurt, poutty face look
which always make people feel so guilty.
JohnnyAmerica @ 44:
Lieberman already has one of those looks.
God Damnit. It's up to the People of this country. When we awaken. When we realize these guys aren't on the same team as us. Or are on the same team against us. We will have to be the ones to take this thing away from them. I've had enough. Joe Lieberman can go fuck himself as far as I'm concerned. It's the People versus the traitors as I see it. Damn.
Captain Bitter Whiner Husein Kangaroo @ 18:
What is use of having an impotent majority in a legislative body with a 9% approval rating? I think Reid and Pelosi both would have been better off to hold to principle over compromised positions of power.
Maldoror @ 22:
Ditto for those who voted for Holly Joe.
lj @ 35:
Joe is from the Likud Party, but he caucuses with the Senate Democrats - for now.
I think his career as a Senator is going to be over when he runs for the Senate again. If McCain wins, he will be offered a spot in McCain's administration. If Obama wins and the Democrats pick up enough seats in the Senate, he will loose his chairmanship. But than again I might be wrong.
Lieberman will be McCain's VP. Mark my words. Obama had better prepare...
JohnnyAmerica @ 44:
yeah no doubt. reid is a wimp. if you really to attract republicans to cross over and vote for dems, then stop being wimps.
repugs don't respect joe lieberman, they use him. repugs love macho bullcrap over facts and liberty. it's not that difficult to figure out....they love bullies.
what we need is democrat BULLS!
MoeBush @ 51:
If McSame does choose Loserman for VP, he may as well withdraw from the race. Holy Joe is poison anymore.
my guess is that rush's heart's over-sized stature is due to an over-saturation of viagra, oxicontin, cognac, missouri moonshine, hydroponic shoeshine, and a general inability to pump his cold, reptilian blood to his pinky toes. the blood simply gave up and stayed home.
those big, long, zesty brown cigars you often see him suckling on (like bambi on his mama's teet) can't exactly be helping either...
Harry Reid is a whore and has every intention of letting Lieberman keep his chairmanship. Harry Reid has to go.
reid = nothing
WTF! Having Harry Reid say "we'll talk about that next year" pretty much means that yeah lieberman will have any chair he wants if Reid gets a say in it. I mean WTF has Reid done that would make anyone think otherwise? Reid is damn near as bad as holy joe for crying out loud.
Reid just envies Lieberman for the nutz to speak his mind. Wishes he had a pair, too.
PS- That's not a compliment of either...
You liberals are funny.
Wait, that should be "liberals", since you have no clue who you even are. The only thing that matters in Amerika now is truth. Lieberman is not a republican, or democrat, or independent...he is a neo-con. He profits off people dying. He becomes more famous the more he rants about invisible terrorists. While you "liberals" run around thinking Democrats are going to save your ass, the world slowly crumbles. Guess it's going to take 4 years to prove that fact as well. There are no differences in parties, they are all the same, they worship one thing....MONEY!
G.O.P worship's money more than Democrats do.I think someone has a mancrush on Ralph Nader.
WHAT?THE DEMOCRATIC party in the SENATE under REIDS leadership have CAVED into the REPUBLICANS that I think that the REPUBLICANS has the MAJORITY just not the chairmanships to the COMMITIES, so why not give the REPUBLICANS the CHAIRMANSHIPS they controle the out come of all that is passed. Also REID is one of LIE-bermans sock puppets. If LIE-berman crosses over to the REPUBLICANS side the rest of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY in the SENATE will not have to BOW when LIE-berman is in the area. Also we can get rid of REID as the DEAR LEADER.
Give em gel Harry!
I just found a name that fits REID when I was young and TV was new Like in some ways the iPods. there was this cartoon Mickey Mouse and one of the other cartoon chairters was called OIL CAN HARRY, he was a slimey snake, in the CARTOON just as HARRY REID sems to be.
Lieberman is a disliked person nowadays, so that will be good news for Democrats to see him giving keynote speech at the GOP convention..
Let Republicans sink more by letting Lieberman make the speech.
Republicans are facing tough time coming November,inviting lieberman to speak will not be a help for them by any standard.
This is not news. I thought this was a forgone conclusion? In fact one of the reasons Lieberman is hitching his wagon to McCain is cause he knows his only chance to remain in power is if President McCain appoints him to something. He knows very well he has a much smaller chance to be re-elected than most incumbents and its pretty clear he's be stripped from all committees once the dems increased their majority.
The day after the elections in November (when the dems pick up at least six Senate seats), Dopey Dog will find he has been scratched from the line-up!
No party, no power, total irrelevancy. And the corporate MSM will employ him even more as an (gag-hack) Independent DEMOCRAT that constantly hammers President Obama.
Embittered & Anti-Republicrat - Max-Hussein-1 @ 32:
not for several more years. Unfortunately there is no recall mechanism for fraudulent Senators. We are stuck with Mr. LIE-vermin. But Harry Read isnt...
angryspittle @ 4:
Maybe you could enlist Jesse Jackson to do it??!!
I have a feeling he's planning to retire when his senate term ends.
angryspittle @ 10:
Reid, Pelosi and Hoyer need to be dumped as the second action of the new Democratic congress - right after they toss Lieberman out of the Democratic caucus.
IndridCold @ 70:
Lieberman is probably planning to be given the job of "McCain's brain" if McCain wins so he can help McCain in his senile moments, like when he mistakes Al Qaeda for Iraqi insurgents being trained in Iran (Remember Lieberman whispering in McCain's ear after he stated that Al Qaeda was being trained by Iran when it was Iraqis that were.)
joeedugan @ 49:
It's obvious that the Repugnicans in Conn voted Lieberman back in after he lost the Democratic primary to Lamont.
i've really felt all along that there are enough indiscretions or more succinctly breaches of the Constitution on the Republican's part that before libs go after one of their own, take care of the republicans first. However,in reading this I've changed my mind. If this does not push harry Reid to the point where he actually comes out and says no way will this most deceitful of turncoats ever be a party to any democratic leadership group, much less the head of that group, then i say go after Harry Reid with everything at your disposal. He and Pelosi both have to go. This is shameful. Elmer Fudd should be no less than tarred and feathered. He's a disgrace.
going after the real culprits of the last 8 years will take some fortitude on the part of Obama. Mark my words carefully, Obama has learned this damned game of politics so well that he plays to the middle. He's already looking at running a second term. I was not an obama supporter nor did i support hillary, i was all for Kucinich. When it became obvious that Dennis did not have a shot, and i blame the media completely for that one, then i switched allegiance to Obama. Now, i've seen him play the game so well and all along i was hoping that he was playing only so that he would not alienate and he would be "electable." I "m not kidding myself anymore. He will get elected, but he's become so smooth that he will not alienate by dumping lieberman on his traitor ass. He will not dump Pelosi. And he will not go after Bush and his cohorts for that criminal acts. Obama, i could be wrong, But I don't think so. God, I hope i'm wrong.
The Dems. can't touch this clown; for now. They really don't have a majority with this clown in tow. Let's elect many Dem. senators in the upcoming elections, and this fool can be put out to pasture.
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