Letters to the Editor
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Tried to tell 'em
We tried to tell the nutroots that this could happen, tried to tell them that JL was an established Dem Senator and to get off his back. You'd think when Bill Clinton was there campaigning for JL that SOMEBODY might have woke up and figured out what they were doing was self-destructive. But no of course, the left with this irrational hatred of all things JL, just had to roll in the shit of defeat once more and take us all with them.
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Why Would Leiberman Take It?
Why would Leiberman take the job now? Trade a six year Senate term, at least two years of which will likely be in the majority party, for a dead end job for two years with no power?? That's nuts.
Anybody who thinks that this is possible doesn't understand the brain (or the power) of the average United States Senator.
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THIS BUSH HIT is TOO much to accept: IMPEACH THE WAR CRIMINAL NOW!
BEFORE HE AND HIS HALLICHENEY DESTROY THE WORLD!
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WHY NOT? They are BOTH from CONNECTICUT!
George just went to Prep School at Philips Andover Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, not certain as to where JL went, but George thinks that Leiberman is "One Yale of a guy".At YALE, George got "In State Tuition", having been born there.
However much he did not need the Cost reduction.
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Good morning, psychos
I see the medication challenged are out in force this morning.
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Mr. Lieberman, you're no Jack Bolton
The article nicely captures the landscape of politics and power, and I certainly wouldn't put it past Bush to make a move like this to tip the Senate and provide some investigative cover.
However, I don't see Joe as a 'perfect' Bolton replacement, however, unless Bush is cutting his losses on the neo-con remake of the Middle East policy. While time is running out and he has barely any political capital to play with, I wouldn't put one more offensive (omygod - did you hear what Ahmadinejad just said?????) past a dreadful, consequential, profitable launch.
And that's where the UN Ambassadorship comes in. Is Joe the obedient player to push the 'bad choices'/resolutions on the great body, and play along with the requisite theater? I don't see that. Intriguing set of dynamics...
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Exactly Backwards
It seems Don has got it exactly backwards in regard to the Liebeman/Lamont race, assuming he isn't just a troll (a big assumption, I know). What this points out is not the self destructive behavior of the "nutroots" who, after all, were responsible in great part, along with Chairman Dean - another "crazy", I know - for the historic Democratic victories this year but of the DLC and the party operatives who were blind to the damage Lieberman can, and does, cause to the Democratic agenda and his egregious self dealing egomania.
If the party, the DLC, the DSCC, Schumer, the Clintons, and the rest of the corporate whore faction of the party had fully supported Ned, instead of playing coy with turncoat Joe and letting Connecticut Dems feel that a vote for Joe was a vote for a Dem, and had called him on his BS about "nobody wants the troops home more than me" and if the Big Dog had campaigned for Ned in the general as he did for Joe in the primary, the Senator from CT would be Ned Lamont and this issue woud not even be a possibility.
The netroots gave us Testor, Webb, control of the Senate and a dozen progressive fighting Dems like McNierny, John Hall and Zack Space while the establishment, the "centrists", and the Rahm Emmanuels gave us our only loss, Harold Ford, and wasted $6 million on Tammy Duckworth who towed the corporate line and sympathetic story aside, was a terrible and uninspiring candidate. Imagine if a tenth of that money went to Scot Kleeb in Nebraska, the cowboy PhD, we'd have yet another seat in Congress. When Don writes the "SOMEBODY might have woke up and figured out what they were doing was self-destructive" he would be accurate in describing the DC Dems, not the netroots.
All that aside, what Lieberman does now is wholly dependent on what he feels most flatters his outsize ego. The party's, and the country's, benefit will play no part in his decision. So, let's see. Two years on the world stage strutting and preening as UN Ambassador but with no policy clout at all, since he will be merely the voice of a discredited and deeply unpopular administration, and then what even he must realize, the end of his political career (and his wife's lucrative lobbying one as well) since what Dem would vote for this clown after such a stunt and he couldn't get elected as an actual Republican, or six more years in the Senate, throwing his weight around. Finally, I don't think dangling a VP nomination on a "bipartisan national unity" ticket with Saint John McCain changes the equation. That's a long shot, and winning on that ticket an even longer shot, but if he was so inclinedd I'm sure he'd rather do it as a Senator, since when he loses, as he certainly will, he could keep his seat, like in 2000.
The choice is yours, Joe.
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If the GOP regains the Senate...
Republican control of the Senate might not be a bad idea as far as progressives are concerned. The voices of the Far Right (Limbaugh, Coulter, et.al) are just itching to blame failure in Iraq on the Democrats, and Democratic control of both houses provides them with that opening regardless of what course Bush decides -- whenever that'll be.
Republican control of the Senate might mute (somewhat) a potential Limbaugh rant about the Democrats being responsible for Bush's failure in Iraq. Meanwhile, a Democratic-controlled House will provide a firewall against any White House shenanigans in the next two years.
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Democrats can't resist Monster House
Now that Senator Johnson seems to have a reasonable chance at staying in his senate seat we must find new ways to scare ourselves out of feeling good. So the new hype is Joe may leave, Joe may leave!
Let's see why won't Joe leave:
-He won't become a Republican Senator cause while that might be fun for two years ( supporting the clear eyed and tolerant Mitch McConnell and Trent Lott in their efforts to get back to "the old times there which are not forgotten" )it is pretty likely the Democrats will take more senate seats in 08 given that they defend 12 to the Republican's 21 and so Joe would then be serving with a bunch of creepies that really don't align well with his constituency.
-He won't take the U.N. job because for one thing it is two years in which not much can be accomplished given all the great ground work done by the Dummie, Condi and Bolton. I'm sure if he wants an apartment in Manhattan the mayor would give him one. He disagrees with Bush on alot more than global warming..how about choice, contraception, equal rights for minorities and women, etc.? And of course not being a dumb man who the hell wants to try to explain the Bush agenda to the world?
-He probably would spare himself the humiliation of... after having run for veep with Gore and basically dragging down the ticket, running for president in 04 which no one even noticed...traveling around the white christian nut Bob Jones circuit with McCain who may or may not get the nomination himself.
Joe will remain a Democratic senator from one of the most Democratic states in the country. He will amass power and favors owed, bring home the bacon and put on a halloween mask every now and then to scare those he felt stabbed him in the back and to give journalists something to write about...but old Joe knows a good thing when he sees one and he ain't goin anywhere.