Comments on: Louise Slaughter Says Conference Report Will Not Contain Lieberman Photo Amendment

By: radlib1

radlib1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:08:15 +0000

Joe Liebeman is a total, cowardly schmuck. I know because I was his roommate at Yale and liked him personally and thought that he was a progressive Democrat who could really be prominent on the national stage (I even predicted in college that he could be the first Jewish President of the United States.)

You don’t know how glad I was wrong about that prediction. He has proven to be a lying sycophant for George W. Bush on the Iraq War and an apologist for the Bush-Cheney torture regime. In short, Joe Lieberman, my former friend and roommate, sorry to say, is a mendacious, imperialist, scum-sucking pig.

The truth may hurt, but it’s still the truth. Joe didn’t fight in the Vietnam War and none of his children or grandchildren have fought in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Instead, he’s happy to send poor American recruits to fight and die instead of him or his family.

That’s what I would call hypocrisy.

Joe Lieberman, my former roommate and friend, is a major, raging militaristic proponent of an immoral war.

He may likeable (and I truly liked him as a roommate), but he is also truly a liar (conscious or unconcious) about Iraq and 9/11 (just like Bush and Cheney.) He can’t help it. He lies about everything to do with Iraq or Israel or the Middle East. It’s in his nature, like the scorpion and the frog.

Sincerely,
David Wyles

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:44:21 +0000

Louise Slaughter is a Democrat, a quite progressive one, and she represents a district near Buffalo NY. She has been chair of the Rules Committee since the Dem’s re-took Congress in 2006, and knows quite well how to use the powers of that committee. She was born and raised in E. Kentucky, and still sounds like that, but in fact she is one of the women elected to congress fairly early on, and she is exceptionally sharp.

She is sending a bill to the house floor that does not contain Lieberman style lanugage, but does contain instructions to the conference not to agree to such language. It will be sent to the floor with a rule that will not allow amendments to that portion of the bill. Pelosi has backed Slaughter fully on this.

By: EvilDrPuma

EvilDrPuma — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:03:05 +0000

Civil Rights Act.

By: esseff44

esseff44 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:02:57 +0000

Sometimes I wonder how it got passed in the first place. It was passed in a climate much different that the one Congress operates in now. Congress wasn’t as full of shivering cowards and perhaps didn’t have as much to hide.

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:05:47 +0000

Cynthia Kouril is upstairs at the Mothership!
Pecora in Perspective: Everything Old is New Again — the Pecora Commission Redux

By: ART45

ART45 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:56:30 +0000

Answer: Some environmental legislation enacted under Nixon.

By: ART45

ART45 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:42:51 +0000

No.

Apart from some stuff enacted during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, what piece of federal legislation since has benefited you and your fellow citizens?

By: Millineryman

Millineryman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:32:11 +0000

The longer that amendement gets pushed around the better the chance of getting it defeated.

By: Margot

Margot — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:18:37 +0000

Are you kidding?

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:17:32 +0000

Thanks Jane.