Letters to the Editor
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Jolting Joe
LIEberman is my Senator, for the next ten months. I have never voted for a republican, and I'm here to say I will never again vote for LIEberman. Every time I remember LIEberman kissing Bush at his second coronation (presidents are elected, unlike GW Bush) I want to puke. Judas kissed Jesus, if you remember. I'll vote for a republican rather than him. If Weiker runs, I'll vote for him.
LIEberman may say he's for choice, but he voted for Robertson, and will vote for Alito if he gets the chance. He votes republican/elitist more often than he votes Democratic/progressive, and I say he should just move to Israel, and stop sending my tax dollars there.
Fillibuster now! Stop the Senate from passing ruinous tax cut and spend legislation!
...and get rid of Lieberman, fer the love of our country!
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It's pathetic...
...that so called 'progressive' Democrats can't seem to come up with their own alternative to Joe Lieberman. Hoping that a 75 year old former Republican running in a DIFFERENT party might in some stroke of luck take him out? That's just lame.
The problem is that the left has bought into an entirely negative ideology: the baleful Chomisky notion that corporations run everything and all the poor leftist can do about it is stand in the street and wave his pathetic sign begging the corporations to treat people nicer. No wonder a wish and a prayer seems like a viable alternative to Joe Lieberman.
The left needs to get itself off the street and back into the swing of American democratic politics: they need to put up actual candidates and start making arguments to the voters (and not to corporations). The left needs to form an actual, defensible ideology that can inspire voters and guide politicians. Then there would be no question of an alternative to Joe Lieberman--there would just simply be a candidate.
Sadly as it exists now, the left has no idea what it thinks or what it stands for, and thus there is no alternative to Lieberman--or to Clinton, Biden, Kerry, or anyone else.
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After Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman has always been an arrogant prig with a "rightier than thou attitude'. Nothing made it clearer than when the Republican cabal zoomed on the Lewinsky issue and by his comments he supported it. By his comments and his actions he tries to stake a claim to independence but in fact he is only claiming his 15 minutes of fame: in the end that is the only thing he interested about,free publicity.
Weiker may have have been a Republican but he never was anything like the knaves who are the majority of that party in today's Congress. He always was principled and talked his mind. Too bad he is 75! But I bet that today's Republicans would prefer many other Democrats to be voted in rather than Weiker. God knows that they fear anybody with a backbone!
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Joe Lieberman is a democrat. If by democrat you mean republican.
Make the party stronger or alienate its moderates? From what I'm hearing, it's the latter. Basically, there is no distinction between republicans and democrats anymore. Both are beholden to big business.
You have Dianne Feinstein co-sponsoring anti-flag burning legislation (because trampling the first amendment is a TRUE democratic value); you have Hillary Clinton saying reach out the religious right fascists who would deprive women of reproductive choice. Because that is a TRUE democratic value. Why? All in a craven attempt to curry favor. but the people they are trying to curry favor with will NEVER vote for them. All they are going to do is piss off the people they might've had a chance with.
Why do democrats go this route? Republicans have no problem catering to their base. but democrats act as if their base is unworthy of concern. and you can see how well that worked out for them in the LAST election. This is the problem: they refuse to learn from their mistakes. And I refuse to vote for a party of idiots.
I was raised a yellow dog democrat by a union organizer grandfather, but he would roll in his grave to see what the party he was so proud of has become. And I'm sure he would have no problem with my new plan of action for voting: All third party. All the time.
and if that puts more Repubs in office, so what? With Dems praising the Iraq war, and kissing the asses of the rich and powerful, really, what's the difference?
As Aaron MacGruder once put it: a vote for the lesser of two evils is still evil.
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Lots of letters here
I can't help wondering whether Senator Lieberman will read any of these. I sent him an e-mail message, asking him to read Harold Pinter's Nobel Acceptance Lecture to correct his rosy picture of what is happening and has happened in Iraq, but I don't live in Connecticut, so the automated answer I received told me that the senator doesn't read any e-mail except that which comes from Connecticut residents. It's a small world he lives in. If he's that provincial, I wish he'd stop making sweeping pronouncements about U.S. foreign policy.
I invite any of my fellow letter writers, and the author of "Jolting Joe" to read Pinter's lecture, which shows that our credibility in the world at large has been trashed by our unilateral aggression against other sovereign nations, our wanton murder of over 100,000 Iraqi citizens ( I know, Bush said 30,000, but the rest of the world says 100,000 not including Fallujah), and our barbarous kidnap and torture of prisoners, some of whom did nothing but stand in the wrong place when our CIA happened to have a "hunch" about them. Pinter rightly points out that the crimes of the United States (and complicity of Great Britain) extend well beyond the Middle East, as our covert and not so covert actions in Central and South America have shown. Pinter's lecture, text and video, can be found here:
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html
Read it, please, and see why so many Democrats can't find it in their hearts and minds to support George Bush OR Joe Lieberman. Oh, yes, and would someone who lives in Connecticut please forward this letter to the good senator? Thanks.