Letters to the Editor
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I don't think
it would be that easy for him to switch. If he jumped, he'd be just another Republican, as an "Independent Democrat" he has a special shtick.
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Hopefully next time around someone will replace our little Joe for good.
I haven't got over from the victory of that fake Joe. Joe likes to pretend that he is principled--such as his brand of bipartisanship. Joe likes to pretend that he has the morale high ground. In fact, it does do him good. Whatever he does or says, he can always wrap in the name of bipartisanship and blame others for being too extreme or radical. It does do him especially good since in CT, the independents outnumber Republicans and Democrats. So, it is his way of prolonging his senatorship. I hope next time around, someone will replace him for good.
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Joe Lieberman is just a whore
Joe sold his soul to Bush under the corner streetlamp because he thought George was Richard Gere and he was Pretty Woman. It was all a delusion, Joe, but you're stuck with it. No redemption for you.
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Don't be naive about Lieberman
It is naive to suggest that somehow Liebrman misunderstood that the positions he is now taking would put him at odds with the majority of his former party. He understood it precisely.
Lieberman is a shrewd but unprincipled operator.
His political gamble last year was whether the Senate would be evenly split. If it was, as it is, he knew quite well that whether he remained nominally a Democrat or not, he would be very likely hold a great deal of power precisely because and he can defect from the Democrats and can switch his vote on the issues and to organize the Senate, and thereby swing the Senate back which ever way he pleases.
Or not.
This is why Democratic and Republican leaders were and are loathe to alienate him. They understood Lieberman's calculus full well.
But in any case, as Senator Hagel showed this weekend, there is no real love for Lieberman on the Republican side of the aisle. After all, who could like or trust a man who turns on his allies and friends so easily? And who really wants to have to cater to such a prima donna?
The only people who seemed not to understand the dynamic at play were Connecticut's voters, who mistakenly put their faith in Lieberman the Democrat (or perhaps in Lieberman the "mensch") and put him back in the Senate.
What is ultimately so disappointing about Lieberman is that he is using his position of power merely to serve his own personal ends and vanity (more power for Lieberman) rather than serving the positions his constituents so strongly support, such as withdrawl from Iraq.
This game cannot serve him well for longer than two years when the balance will shift one way or the other in the Senate, and Lieberman likely will find himself having alienated both sides of the aisle.
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Not a D or an R -- but a Z
Actually, Lieberman's actions make perfect sense if you think of him not as a Democrat or a Republican but rather as an Israeli. When he talks of his kids and grandkids he's thinking of them living in an illegal settlement somewhere on Arab land. By his actions and words it's abundantly clear he couldn't care less about Hagel's kids and grandkids because they belong to a separate nation, a nation towards which his primary loyalty lies not.
He's trying to make the Middle East safe for Israel, no matter what the price in blood to America.
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So does that make Cheney Mr.Weatherbee and W Jughead?
Nice analogy, works for me. That said, it still doesn't excuse Lieberman from his faux pius, self-hating, middleman-Jew schtick. What was once honest flip-flpping and balancing has turned into playing both sides and power wedging whoredom. If that's the case, perhaps he's more Reggie then Archie.
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An asshole could hardly flame more brightly
Geezus ... if there was any justice, this whiny liar would be a comeuppance somewhere, somehow, and soon. Nice job, you 35 percent of Connecticut Democrats who got suckered in by this knob. I could understand GOP dead-enders voting for him, since he's one of them, but the rest of you might have been a little more awake.
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that is ...
GET a comeuppance ...
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blame Al
Arguably Al Gore (whom I otherwise love and respect and would be happy to vote for any time) let the genie out of the bottle when he (wrongly) gambled that Bill Clinton was anathema to the voters in 2000. He chose Lieberman to run as VP because of his sanctimonious denunciation of Clinton. Made me sick at the time and makes me sicker today, because it sent Lieberman off on his arrogant ego trip, which now threatens to hamstring the Democratic Senate.
Meanwhile if Al had let Clinton campaign for him I bet he would be president today.
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Joementum Lieberthing
Gore did make a major error in judgement picking this whining schlemiel. His debate performance against Dickless Chinstrap, who was vulnerable on so very many levels and issues, was beyond pathetic. He was like a puppy rolling on his back and peeing on himself. That's what he's done before and during the whole Eye-rack bloodbath. He's sickening.
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Anyone familiar with the word recall?
If a governor can be recalled, why not a senator? I think fraud charges could also be lodged.
I think the reason Democrats don't challenge Lieberman is because they don't want him to switch parties. What they don't realize is that the momentum shift that brought them to power might just sweep over them to, and sweep them out of office.
They also haven't much of an idea what a national joke Lieberman has become. When someone as pathetic as he is makes such a fool of himself on a nationwide scale, he becomes a focus point, and the others gain new scrutiny as a result.
For the people of Connecticut the work of recalling Lieberman should be a relatively straightforward process. It would do best if initiated by former Lieberman voters. My advice is to be intentional: don't slow down until he's out of office, don't quit, don't get hustled. Joe Lieberman has joined forces with the Bush criminal operation, and as such he is a threat to the entire planet.
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too many adjectives, not enough time
Vidkun Quisling could only have dreamt of being as big of a sanctimonious, unctuous, disingenuous, obsequious, traitorous prick as Joe Lieberman.