Joementum 2012
I know I shouldn't feed the ego that is Lieberman, but do you want to know how awesome Joe is, Mr. President?
Read this from the Weekly Standard.
Joementum 2012?
Is he the greatest senator ever? He fought for victory in Iraq, he's fighting for victory in Afghanistan, and he's fighting to save us all from Obamacare. Who needs Olympia Snowe when you've got Joementum?
Posted by Michael Goldfarb on October 27, 2009.
And we must never forget TNR's love for Joe.
(h/t Atrios)
And key Democrats correct Lieberman on the fiscal awesomeness of the public option. Are you listening, Joe?
I wonder how Connecticut feels since they support the public option by a wide margin:
Connecticut voters support 64 - 30 percent giving people the option to buy health insurance from a government plan.
Maybe it'll be Palin/Lieberman 2012 for this new crowd of voters.
I am completely convinced that Lieberman is an ugly little man to the core of his nasty wretched soul and he harbors a deep hatred for Progressives.
period!
If a health insurance reform bill goes down in defeat because Joe Lieberman showed his true colors, then the bill goes down in defeat.
I would rather have no bill, then to give those "prostitutes" in Congress any more terms in office.
They could have done the right thing and given this nation a shot at true health insurance reform and ultimately true health care reform.
Almost every nation that has a universal health care system has its eyes on us, and they are deeply disappointed with how we've handled this health care debate. They absolutely cannot understand why we don't have universal health care.
The so-called richest nation in the world, sees health care as a privilege and not a human right.
We snub our nose at the ultimate truth ... which is .. that unless individuals are healthy, they cannot be productive members of society.
Countries that have universal health care know this.
We are Neanderthals, and a nation that oozes some of the most vile, greedy humans on the face of this earth.
I'm ashamed of Republicans, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Evan Bayh ... and any of the other cast of vile characters that create a stench in the Senate and The House.
I can't post my full comment. But if you want to see how I really feel, click HERE
or go to: http://clevelandssecretclub.blogspot.com/2009...
to Israel so that they can have nice health care for EVERYBODY.
I didn't know Israel has universal healthcare. Very good comment. Bravo!!
Why the hell doesn't someone ask him what he thinks of Israel's healthcare system?
I don't understand the amount of dismay and loathing being tossed at Senator Joe Lieberman. It is far beyond my understanding to put any type of blame on the Senator. Senator Lieberman is being exactly who he has always been. We should be grateful that there is at least one Senator left that is honest and true to his own set standard of morals.
If we are to blame anyone then the blame should go squarely to the thick voters living in the state of Conneticut that continue to be so easily swayed and blinded every 6 years. Conneticut is obviously a state of humans with very short memory spans and the rest of America continues to suffer for it.
DUMP HIM...
to his constituents? They don't contribute millions to Joe's PACs.
Stating that he opposed the public option because he was doing what was right for his constituents and the American people. I'm waiting for this turd to produce a poll that supports that assertion.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
then he caves after getting some headlines and press time.. and MSM is pushing his stupid agenda..Write him off.. not worth the ink! he does not even have his facts straight or number correct!
That means making sure Reid goes bye bye. Defending Liberman needs to become a death kiss for democrats.
You mean the health insurance industry?
I'll second THAT!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
that keep defending this guy no matter what he does. You know the people that kept saying "Joe's with us on everything but the war". The people that pushed the hardest for Lieberman to keep all his Sr. privileges when the local dems kicked him out. In other words we need to get Harry Reid out and make sure people know the reason was because of his defence of Joe Lieberman.
Harry (or is he hairy?) has done worse things.
Can't think of one to list here but I know he has done a few things that I think are worse.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
"The people that pushed the hardest for Lieberman to keep all his Sr. privileges when the local dems kicked him out."
You mean President Obama?
To get the message so be it Obama will not be president next term. I'm tired of this if the bill isn't far right it has to be center right aka centist. We need some strong leftist progessive laws and policies. If the current dems don't want to bring on such policies and laws then it time to get some who will.
elect them?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
who defeated Joe in the primary in 06 will help us in all the other states. That will make the Senate a much better place for sure.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I cannot vouch for anyone else's decision-making process, only mine. And I will not be voting for BH Obama (if he runs again) in 2012. I'm fed up, and I will not support any more of the Centrist/Corporatist (Neo-Liberal) Democratic candidates. If there is a Democratic Primary, or even a likely 3rd-party candidate in 2012, they will get my vote, even if I have to write them in on the ballot.
The subject of which brings me to my "confession". In 2000, I became so agitated at the bottom half of the Democratic ticket of Gore/Lieberman that I voted for Nader. Yep, I admit it. I was one of those pesky independents that helped Bush/Cheney win, all because I voted my conscience. I regret that GW Bush became the absolute worst President in USA history, and that the Republican Party has played a major role in the abject destruction of the USA economy, but I have never apologized for my vote in 2000 - nor will I.
Shit happens. And if my vote in 2012 means that another hypocritical sociopathic misogynistic Neo-Con wins the White House, then so be it. But I am hoping, beyond hope as a matter of faith - this from a Taoist-influenced Buddhist - that a Liberal Progressive might actually win in 2012.
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (I) Connecticut can kiss my shiny metal ass.
HR-676 is the absolute minimum HC reform that I will find acceptable.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
the insurance companies. He delivers the cash to Congress. What else could possibly explain the way he is treated?
Droopy Dog strikes again!
@ 3:00 mark
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-septemb...
comedy gold! Thnx!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Doesn't even matter.
He snatched his spotlight and has been dismissed.
Dear Hoe (whoop's typo SB Joe) - I said good day sir!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I knew it was a terrible mistake to forgive him for his betrayals, especially supporting McWars last year. That was unforgivable, but the pansies gave in and kissed his traitorous butt. I threw up a bit in my mouth when that happened. The ego of this man should make everyone, left and right, despise him.
Is it the 21st century yet?
just trying to be relevant. After Snowe became irrelevant with the Reid bill, Smokin' Joe saw his opportunity to get some face time. Problem is, he's going down in smoke because of his ignorance---watch and see.
dandy
"watch and see."
*fingers crossed*
I'll bring the popcorn and something to sip . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Connecticut...You had a perfectly good candidate in Lamont but you were stuck in your ways and re-elected Golum and he's screwing us all.
is intended to be a factual statement
When the terrorists blew 100 people in Afghanistan recently, I really thought that we will still have a robust public option. When they blew additional 100 people in Pakistan, I resigned to the fact that unfortunately we won’t have any public option at all. There are apparently much more pressing expenditures and if you don’t agree my fellow progressives, you betray the troops. Period. God, I really thought that something would change, but the madness of the last 8 years continues. Sometimes I wonder if the Republicans aren’t right when they say Speaker Pelosi is a very bad, lousy leader. They were right about John McCain by not electing him, they are right about Lindsey Graham shouting him down, they may actually be more reasonable than we think. By the way, they snapped out of their collective denial and started thinking critically en masse from the moment Beck hit Fox News’ “all time records”, so now WE unfortunately, by F**cking EVERYTHING UP with the majority in both chambers of Congress ARE, and rightly SO, about to become to them what conservatives were to us under Bush… pick the word, because we invented plenty of them. We are indeed at the end of the American Enterprise (aka. the USA) food chain and no Obama speech can change this sad reality any longer. We, just as conservatives and libertarians, are about to snap out of this collective trance and face some brutal reality: Health care for all? Bankers are failing, Muslims are killing us and you’re thinking about good, affordable health care? Naa. In such moments a reasonable person would say: I sometimes hate my country, since it’s priorities are truly, TRULY, f**ked up!! Maybe that’s why Glenn is watched by left, center and right (30%, 30%, 40%) and Keith and Rachel by the lefties (100% of the devoted, lefty audience). Let’s face it, we operate in insulated echo chambers -- the “majority” in Congress and their fellow lobbyists know that – they know that echo chambers may be a lot of things, but one thing they are not – when you scream so really, really loud that you think everybody hears it and agrees with it and all the promised changes will soon materialize, nobody can hear a shit. Isn't that right Speaker Pelosi, Ben Nelson and Joe? At least the Right has become a band of open minded, suspicious, critically thinking people so finally we may have a level playing field.
were did you copy paste that from?
"At least the Right has become a band of open minded, suspicious, critically thinking people so finally we may have a level playing field".
Are you lost? Where have you found anyone on the right who's "open-minded"? Head back to the Red State blog where you belong!!!
dandy
Call me dumb, I thought that line was pure comedy!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
poor Mike took a right turn and got LOST!!!
dandy
I didn't. I just think we, as a nation, will be better off, if both the left and the right get equally pissed off seeing where and how our money is spent. So kudos to Keith AND Glenn. Let's face it, without Glenn the righties would have never created the "anti government spending movement" (which includes military spending but that thought is still catching up with them) and instead would live in denial, reading their Bibles. The American engine (the people), that seemingly was broken ironically got fixed by the extremes of both left and right so how can that be a bad thing? At least now you can talk to them and they will understand you. That wasn't the case when Bush was the POTUS.
Perhaps we can start with the $3 billion that we send to Israel?
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf
Never ceases to amaze me, he has no problem spending countless dollars on wars, but thinks money for healthcare is fiscally irresponsible. When are the pundits going to call these pukes out on this. Ask yourselves the question, the odds of being killed by a terrorist or dying from an illness because you a) can't afford insurance b) run out of coverage c) have a pre-existing condition.
Maybe the proponents of healthcare reform should couch their argument along those lines. Jesus h. Christ I'm a 50+ high school grad that's it no college. And I can come up with that. What the fuck are the people who are supposed to think of these talking points doing, besides playing with themselves?
they aren't playing with themselves, they are playing with each other. Cavuto and Joe are good examples.
Fox gets it's talking points?
Mike,you are so obvious.
As for Lieber(man)girly, he should be stripped of everything he holds as far as positions.
Time now for President Obama to get tough with these Blue Dogs and non progressives/democrats.
How are these people so ignorant of the bill?
'nuff said!
Oh, BTW, I loath and despise Joe Lieberman.
'Talk to the hand'
"I loath and despise Joe Lieberman"
With the heat of a thousand suns!
I can't stand to watch or hear him anymore.
UGH!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
is more trust worthy than Lieberman.
At least Gramm made it official.
'Talk to the hand'
Too true!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
When he was accused of treason and actually disciplined by the House Democrats, he did not just switch parties. He resigned his House seat and won it back in a special election as a Republican.
Remember Joementum was selected by Gore as a "statement" of high morals to contrast him from Clinton. Hoo boy.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
for having not controlled my impulse to be historically accurate and actually say something nice about Phil Gramm. It must be a mental recession on my part.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
"historically accurate"
Is what it is - no changing the facts.
Although I feel the same about Gramm and/or Loserman.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
over to the party of treason to pick up where he left off
it was decided by the Dems first, through discipline, then Gramm himself, that he would be outdie the tent pissing in.
With Lieberman, Dem leaders decided it was better to have him inside the tent pissing out. Unfortunately he is inside the tent pissing constantly while doing a pirouette.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
should be sufficient evidence that this guy is truly a 'Thug at heart.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The daily show last night did a great piece on this slime, lieBerMan.
I am sure now his last election was rigged, Does he have an EvanJelloKill crew in coneticut to fix the votes like they do round here?
Another pure Inbread scum. Please go away Joe, ya shmuk.
He does have a "crew in coneticut to fix the votes" - a little favor from the GOP for his pro-war stance.
I thought they fixed it for him when it happened.
(tin foil hat firmly in place)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
use electronic voting machines?
Joe... This is the USA, and (logistically speaking)I am sure that among millions here, the odds are good that there are people out there who can be and who are in fact sold on your self-assured conceit. I for one think you are a mamby-pamby whiner and the more I listen to the gibberish that spews out of that glorified CAKE HOLE of yours the more I am actually happy that Al Gore lost the election because believe it or not, I think if Al Gore would have had to step down, or died, that you would have been an even worse catastrophe to the USA and wWorld peace than even GWB and Cheney combined.
is who actually has the pictures of Joe doing terrible things to children?
As terrible as it sounds it's the only thing that makes sense. He's being blackmailed.
If he folds (like a cheap tent) and rolls over for Harry does that mean Harry has the goods on him?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
...it ain't about blackmail and pics with goats. It's all about
payolacampaign contributions and for whom Joe REALLYwhoresworks. It ain't the people of Connecticut, that's for sure.I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
don't you feel shitty you didn't elect Ned Lamont now? Booo Joe Bitterman
Civil Rights Movement 2009
http://www.michaelmoore.com/#
DO SOMETHING:
Demand Nancy Pelosi Keep Kucinich
Amendment Allowing States to Enact Single-Payer
Call Speaker Pelosi: (202) 225-4965 | Call Bill Floor Manager
Rep. George Miller: (202) 225-2095 | Call Bill Floor Manager
Rep. Henry Waxman: (202) 225-3976
I called pelosi, I don't know who Miller is, lol. Waxman is onboard isn't he?
One of the main reasons that Reid let LIEberman keep his chairmanships was to keep him in the fold for health care insurance reform. Now LIEberman has obviously shit on Reid and the whole Democratic Party. As soon as thins bill is signed Reid better kick LIEberman off of every committee his in on. LIEberman shit on the Democratic Party for the last time if Reid has any balls.
It was Obama who talked Reid into letting LIEberman keep his committees so he's the one LIEberman's shitting on. I sure hope Obama learned a valuable lesson when it comes to the shitbag from Connecticut.
...don't know what Obama was thinking. I mean, in the end I don't give a toot; maybe he thought he had good reasons. LIEberman, like any of us, is responsible for his own actions. I hold him to account for being a sniveling sleaze.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Obama keeps trying to apease these assholes and all they have done for him is shit on him. I understand why Obama has done this but I hope he learns to not do it much anymore. It looks like he is stepping out of that box with what he is doing to Fox "News". He just has to get this health care deal done (as bad as it is going to be in the end.) then he will hopefully cut all these asshole loose.
n/c
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
This droopy sonuvabitch has GOT to go. It's almost like he is getting his last swings in, knowing he can't win another election, and then he will ride off into the sunset to whatever lucrative job or lobbying firm. What a lying weasel of a scumbag.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Who cares about this moron?
He's one vote. Ignore him and move on to the next. He's long been a republican regardless of what he calls himself these days.
He got elected senator not president and Connecticut was 61% in favor of Obama. Maybe it's time he was recalled. Does anyone know if you recall an egomaniac senator in Connecticut?
Here's the problem with your plan: We need him to make sure the Cons can't filibuster the bill. We need 60 votes to kill the filibuster. He's vote number 60.
;)
(JK. I get it. But at this point, he isn't. Well, he never was, was he? ....grrrr....)
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Considering that he's NOT a vote for OUR side then your math is all wrong. Lieberman is a cancer - better you should cut him out now to give you time to heal then wait until he has done significantly MORE damage. Keep on waiting and you might lose your entire left side.
Snake Senate Lifer who needs an emergency shut down and a kick in the kibbutz. I despise that man more than anyone on the face of this earth, the Judas Asparagus of Health Care Reform. Joe LIEberman is a slimier fuck than Demented, Inhoof and Michelle Blockhead combined!
...when Joe leveraged his trademark snivel into a plum acting job?
http://www.timvp.com/alf2.jpg
I wish he would go back to his old career. I really do.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
How Joe reacts when he gets money from the medical and pharma industries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q84oP5JilU (just 28 seconds).
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
Sounding like the true ignorant biggot you are. Thank you!
He is bigoted against... asparagus?
Obamacare is just another conservative talking point meant to sabotage health
insurancecare reform. The idea is to kill it by tying it to a black Muslim terrorist fist-bumping president, which of course works like a charm among the terminally brain-dead and those on the corporate payroll.Obama didn't write any legislation - that is being done by the corporate congress. Funny thing is, Traitor Joe's attempt to kill this this legislation is the best chance to protect us from it. This legislation was written by insurance lobbyists. If it passes we are doomed.
Best scenario: it is defeated in the senate (thanks, Joe!) and we get to rain hell and damnation on obstructionists in the midterm elections next year. Then we will have a much better chance of getting some real legislation that protects people instead of corporations.
Obama ought to pull rank and have Joe's chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee yanked.
While Obama is at it... any Democrat that votes against the procedure to just have debate and vote on the health care bill should lose their chairmanship (if they have one) or whatever status that would take them down a peg or two.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
and threaten Joe's Chairmanship, but maybe he'll just let the Senate Dems take care of Joe.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
to get Joe his chairmanship in the first place. Obama should correct that mistake.
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
I'll give Obama the benefit of the doubt until the Heath care insurance reform bill is signed. After that all bets are off and the shit will start flying. Pelosi has started to show she is willing to push back. Reid not so much. Barney Frank has made a half ass effort with the financial industry but needs to do more.
You just said it in a nutshell. I've had this nagging urge to play "charade"s ever since this whole thing got started. Go ahead Joe, show the pubes the exit! You fleet enema backwash you.
can we say she is palin' around with liberists ??
Joe couldn't get a Veep nod from his BFF McCain, does anyone think that the Repubs will allow him a Veep nomination with any other Repub? Well maybe. Especially if he kills health care reform.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
After his Senate term is up, he'll be sucking corporate dick from the Knesset.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
My father said pretty much the same thing last night during the news (minus the dick sucking business).
The two reasons Joe said he will vote against the public option are: (1) he worries that it will be a further burden on taxpayers and (2) he thinks it will be a new entitlement.
Joe does not have a clue about what he is voting for or what exactly the public option is. Really very sad that this guy will just vote against something for no good reason or without really understanding his own reasons, other than say for Aetna.
First, the public option is to be entirely funded by itself. ie. it will collect revenue from the premiums it collects. There is absolutely no burden on the tax payers because of a govt run insurance plan.
Second, it is not an entitlement. People are not getting anything for free. They still have to pay for it out of pocket like any other insurance plan.
I think Joe is confusing universal coverage with public insurance plan. Universal coverage will use tax payers dollars to subsidize low income peoples insurance, which could be considered an entitlement. A completely different concept than Public Option. If Joe is against healthcare because he is worried about tax payers and entitlements, then he should actually be saying that he is against universal coverage. A completely different reason and a much more difficult case for a formal Democrat to make. ie. I am not for insuring more people.
Quite well - I say.
Too bad Joe is such a pip
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Unless Lincoln "just made pretty speeches" (does that sound familiar?) - I think his "....government of, for, and by the people" meant WE the people, ARE the government and for all the ballyhoo of Lieberman and those of the same ilk braying about "not wanting to have government-run- health coverage - those same aforementioned need to drop theirs.
THEY have government-run health coverage and WE the people (if we are to take Lincoln's words as we think he meant them) pay for it.
What a novel concept, a Senator actually making sense with an explanation as to why he opposes something. Must drive you lefties nucking futz!
kind of like colorectal cancer will just "drive you nuts". I don't blame Joe as much as the Dems who welcomed his Republican douchebaggery into the tent after LOUD and REPEATED warnings.
Lieberman knows exactly what he's doing , a he is looking out for the Insurance companies and Wall Street's best interest and has been compensated for it , he is a REPUG , has no conscience to bother him . I would like to know what the hell Barack was thinking , actually stepping in so that Lieberman kept his chairmanship after he completely crapped on him and the Dems ! And as for the Dems allowing this weasel to caucus with them ... what the hell ? There needs to be a purge in the Dem party , boot the Republicrats out ! And by the way , Connecticut voters , on behalf of the rest of the country , my congratulations , thanks a lot .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
These dirtbags wont even let us have this rightwing watered down "healthcare reform" its a joke it inst 100% goverement funded free healtchare for all its nothing even CLOSE to that. Well if this bill has NO "public option" it NEEDS to fail. We can elect others who will listen to the will of the people and then ram single payer down their throats!
and WHY the Democrats welcomed him in with open arms is the questions historians will be asking for years to come when they research the demise of Health Care Reform. Why doesn't Joe CARE what 64% of Connecticut thinks? Because he is paid by the lobbyists NOT to. Because he is a one man Republican sleeper cell. Because the Democrats are too soft to actually DO anything about it. Because he is a scorpion, it is his nature.
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