I have never seen a politician marginalize themselves so quickly or efficiently. Lieberman's the crazy uncle who comes over for family occasions and squawks insanely in the corner about how the kids in the family listen to rock and roll and drink fizzy drinks. He's a political has-been who only won his general election through Lamont's campaign incompetence and Republican support. It's not surprising he's paying his lip service to his true "constituents", the Republicans who made sure he didn't have to retire into obscurity just yet. He's a zealot, and past his prime at that.

Good work Joe. Keep making us proud.

I suspect if you were to look closely at whoever it was bankrolled Joe's independent campaign..and his previous campaigns, you'd find that his bankers want him to be saying exactly what he's saying.

Joe likes his Senate seat, and he intends to keep it as long as he can. That means he HAS to please his masters. So, whoever his masters are, they like what he's saying, or he would not be saying it. Call Lieberman a lot of things, but don't call him independent, or honest, or courageous..just call him a puppet.

Hm. How much money did Israel's surrogates give him, anyway?

Can someone please explain to me how anyone, including traitor Lieberman can endorse an escalation of 'stay the course'? What part of the will of the American electorate or overwhelming poll numbers do the leadership of this country not understand?

I cannot, cannot, cannot understand this position of escalating 'stay the course'. This is so beyond unacceptable. These people are frightening and belong in jail. May we all live to see that. May the United States somehow manage to survive the incompetence, greed and hubris that this, the worst executive admnistration in U.S. history, has forced upon us.

I thought no one could match George Bush for sheer out-of-touch-ness, but it looks like there's a new contender for the title. Correct and courageous? Is he kidding with that?

I mean, I can understand how some stay-at-home Mom (or Dad) in Iowa City (or Crawford, TX) could perceive the war in those terms. Nothing on the TV all day but Oxygen and Fox News, too many chores with the house and kids to spend much time reading up on the situation, no real depth of interest in politics or current events to speak of (beyond today's price rollback at the local Wal-Mart). But a US Senator? One who has traveled to Iraq? One who has run for Vice-President, and with Al Gore no less?

And aside from the mind-boggling willful blindness necessary to see any hope in this plan, what's this carping about "excessive partisan division"? It seems to me that opposition to this "correct and courageous" plan is just about the least partisan movement seen inside the beltway since Congress authorized the war in the first place.

He did get one thing right. There will be plenty of "rancor at home" before this is over and done with. There's plenty now, as the majority of the American people watch their call for an end to the war haughtily ignored by a President who "will not shape policy according to public opinion."

A part of me can't wait for the delicious frisson I'll feel as Joe stands before a microphone in the not-too-distant future admitting that his support for this plan was a bad idea. Most of me, though, is feeling its blood run cold at the cost in American and Iraqi lives that will have to be paid before I get to hear that.

It's either the excessive partisan division and rancor... or the startling and unrelenting incompetence in the prosecution of the war. One or the other.

Boy, that man makes me sick. Someone, hit him with a chair already!

But you know what? What I really want right now is to meet Ned Lamont and take him (gently) by the collar and shake the bejeebus out of him, while shouting: "Do you now see what you've done your bloody moron!?" That was one election this nation could not afford to lose.

Stupid Lamont. Grr.

Way to go, good old Clueless Joe.

Joe made sure HIS kids won't serve in harm's way. Getting maimed or killed is for OTHERS' children.

If Lieberman doesn't start coming to his senses soon, he may not have a senate seat to come back to in the next election cycle regardless of what label he runs under! Maybe it isn't such a bad thing that he never became vice-president, if this is his true face! I think it's safe to assume that the "questioning-the-president-hurts-our-troops" excuse stopped being relevant in 2005 when it became obvious we were losing anyway!

He's over and done. What a tool. When Sam Brownback isn't happy with your war, the writing's on the wall. Too bad Joe can't read it.

My guess is Holy Joe will get another sloppy, wet kiss from W at the SOTU this year. His verbal BJ for the president and his Stay the Course + 21,500 "strategy" confirms my judgement about Lieberman and his (lack of) judgement. He continues to nurse despicable delusions. Do Joe's Democratic supporters in CT feel the least bit bamboozled? The rest of us are none too happy that you foisted this SOB on our national discourse for another six years.

So his words can't be used to weaken the Democrats' otherwise unified front.

One nice thing about this is that Joe Leiberman has completely self-destructed as any kind of a serious national figure. In 2000, he was considered a serious contender for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination. Now, he's a punchline.

What a weenie.

But you know what? What I really want right now is to meet Ned Lamont and take him (gently) by the collar and shake the bejeebus out of him, while shouting: "Do you now see what you've done your bloody moron!?" That was one election this nation could not afford to lose.

I don't understand. Republicans crossed over in droves to vote for Lieberman which is what gave Holy Joe the election, how is it Lamont's fault he lost the election?