Dear President Obama,

Please appoint Lieberman to any ambassadorial post he wants. Connecticut now has a law requiring special elections to replace vacant senate seats, so it would be a good idea to vacate Lieberman’s. Give Connecticut a chance to undo their mistake that we’re all suffering.

Just a little more to ponder:

http://crooksandliars.com/davi…..as-only-ho

Excellent suggestion. He loves to parade around in war zones dressed like a clown, so let’s give him an unlimited opportunity.

No shit !!

What a douche !!

Lieberman puts the sleaze in “sleazy politician”

Like the Blue Dogs in the House, Joe has more power now that he can’t be counted on to vote consistently with the Dems. It’s all about Joe, he wouldn’t accept any appointment that deflated his exaggerated sense of self-importance.

Jane, do you ever feel like Sisyphus?

Who says Independents and 3rd Parties cannot be effective in Congress?

Sen. Lieberman(I) Conn sure can throw his weight around!

p.s. – he was still an oaf when he was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

signed, prematurely anti-Lieberman.

is it wildly coincidental that he takes such a firm, public stance against on the very day the Senate goes to 60 ? hmmmmmm

Joe’s household expenses are paid for, in part, by lobbying money from big pharma. His hands aren’t clean on this issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_Lieberman

Oh Jane, you shouldn’t have!

My FDL moniker was in tribute
to the boundless disdain of HoJo!
So there you go!
dosido.

Oh, lordy, here we go again.

I tried to call Diane Rehm’s show after she introduced the discussion on Franken’s final win by listing the vote totals, including “independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders who vote with Democrats.”

Aaaaaargh! My head nearly blew off. And to link Joe w/ Sanders!
Of course, I didn’t get through, and there was only one more reference to Joe. I assusmed, of course, Joe would never never go for a strong public option. Surprise/not.

I’m thinking Cassandra.

Lieberman, who voted for every war supplemental and every bank bailout that he ever encountered without batting an eyelash about the expense, suddenly says that a public plan is “a cost we can’t take on.”

This would be why, time and again I call “Bullshit” on anyone publicly wringing their hands over the cost of health care reform.

They find money for everything else, they can find money for us.

Last November they found 700 Billion in what really amounted to a long weekend; go back to that same money tree get what’s necessary for health care reform.

“prematurely anti-Lieberman.”

LOL. You know your history, man! (or woman!)

Thanks for shoving that stupid quote in their faces. Wasn’t Lieberman’s wife in bed with the pharmaceutical companies?

Puppethead’s got it right. It’s just his way of hanging a for sale sign on his vote. It isn’t the time to cut our collective noses off to spite our faces, but watching Holy Joe get his nuts crushed would almost be worth it.

Still is, AFAIK. see other comments above.

What worries me is that he is really with them on everything but the war and that, concerning health care, he’s the one saying what they’re all thinking.

How about Iran? Perfect slot for him.

Isn’t that, at the very least, “giving aid and comfort to the enemy?”

Certainly it would be all over every RW talk show and blog if a Democrat had said it.

In Texas, it might fall under a statute (which I normally loathe, and actually won a full jury trial under this charge) prohibiting “terroristic threats.”
My case was brought by a complainant who said that my client, reacting to a physical attack on his dog, supposedly “menaced” my client with a tool he happened to have in his hand at the time.
The jury, btw, brought back an acquittal in record time.
Anyway, my point is Scheuer’s threat fits the bill a lot better than my pipsequeak client and his little dog.”

heh. I was just thinking the same thing.

Yes.

You know, you’re probably right about that.

You know, in these hard economic times, Joe just needs some ka-ching like the rest of us. /s

love your moniker, dude.

The guy filling in for Stephanie Miller had an interesting thought. He hypothecated that Obama isn’t coming out all Pouty Pants about the public option because then the phones to congresspeople would stop ringing. He thinks Obama’s playing coy to keep our heat on.

It’s probably not true, but it is a nice thought. What say you folks?

thx.

that was another time the Left lost its head by being in thrall to a Party over which they had no influence.

Joe LIEberman for Ambassador to Wasilla !

Happy Canada Day to all !

Do the citizens of CT have the right to recall their senator by public initiative? I hope so. There are other states that the people are going to be looking into what rights they have. Our representatives do not represent us, and they need to be expelled. Many need to be jailed.

Lieberman is a walking talking advertisement for all that is corrupt and dysfunctional about our political system. No honest party would want him near it which is why he gets on so well with both Democrats and Republicans.

It is time to have a state initiated constitutional ammendment that would require senate and congress critters to recuse themselves from voting on issues where financial contributions from corps, in that area have been in excess of $_______ per annum.

If only there had been a forward-thinking group of citizen activists who might have warned us about Rape Gurney Joe’s double-dealing so that Connecticut could have made a different choice. Too bad he’s never subject to voters. Too bad he’s Senator-for-Life.

With respect to Senator Lieberman, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

Prick.

absolutely!

My contempt for Joe Lieberman will never subside
— punaise

He hypothecated that Obama isn’t coming out all Pouty Pants about the public option because then the phones to congresspeople would stop ringing. He thinks Obama’s playing coy to keep our heat on.

This is a riff on the 11-dimensional chess theme. These kind of excuses images always turn up when there is an especially blatant disconnect between Obama, his rhetoric, and what his supporters want. And btw it isn’t called “coming out all Pouty Pants”. The last I heard it was called leadership, something we have seen precious little of from him.

interestingly, when i called harry reid’s office and read his comments to them, there wasn’t enough manpower in the office to answer everyone’s questions.

Oh, that’s what I thought you’d say. Leave it to you to burst my little obama bubble. :]

my “pouty pants” turn of phrase was more directed at Bush Boy’s leadership “style”, which I guess has its advantages. But I take your point.

I say Obama is soldily in the Lieberman wing of Independent Democrats. To clarify, Lieberman calls himself a Democrat, an Independent Democrat or an Independent depending on what meets his needs at any given time. Of course, there is no such animal as an Independent Democrat, but there he is – Joe Lieberman – and the media plays the charade as Lieberman ordains it.

I do not expect Obama to come out strongly for a viable public option at any point. Obama will not whip for votes for a strong public option like he did for the war supplemental with the billions for the IMF. Obama is an Independent Democrat. Which is to say he is Republican-lite.

Here we have Lieberman telling us what he’s going to do to stop healthcare for all Americans – to the benefit of Big Insurance with skies-the-limit premiums and subsidized premium payments instead of a goverment-run public option like Medicare for all.

I’m reminded of the prescription drug benefit that Dubya enabled. That program is a gift to Big Pharma. No negotiating prices – no reimportation of drugs from Canada. It was designed to allow big pharma to rape the government and the customers.

Lieberman is determined to make the health care plan a huge gift to the insurance industry and IMHO, Obama is going to help him do it.

I say Obama is soldily in the Lieberman wing of Independent Democrats. To clarify, Lieberman calls himself a Democrat, an Independent Democrat or an Independent depending on what meets his needs at any given time. Of course, there is no such animal as an Independent Democrat, but there he is – Joe Lieberman – and the media plays the charade as Lieberman ordains it.

Both Obama and Lieberman are Blue Dogs at heart.

The electorate is on the left. The money is on the right. So they campaign from the left and govern on the right.

But 2010 should be about the primaries. We have enough elected officials who call themselves Democrats. Now it is time to elect better Democrats.

Kneepads Lieberman would skin any knee in service to his Connecticut corporations, in Hartford and elsewhere. His interest in serving nutmeggers who live outside certain neighborhoods in Greenwich is less passionate.

I never forget that Lieberman was Obama’s mentor.

Regarding the Majority Leader’s infamous line

“He’s With Us On Everything But The War”–

it turns out that Lieberman was way out ahead of his own (at the time) party. For now the Democrats are funding the war appropriations without interruption, just as the Republicans had done.

Yes, Lieberman took some flak at the time, but now The Party has come around to seeing the wisdom of Liberman’s viewpoint. By emulating it.

“I have long supported the goal of universal health care,” Lieberman told reporters. “Ned Lamont can talk about it. I’ve been doing something about it all the time I’ve been here.

He made sure after he said that, that universal health care would drown in a bathtub.

To think we nominated this douchebag for VP.

I still can’t see how the Clintons could have ever forgiven this backstabbing jerk for how he enabled the Republicans to press on with impeachment in September of 1998.

Ouch!

(just coming back to this thread )

JOE (Independent Democrat) is a waste of time and money. Us voters here in CT voted him out in the primaries and the republicans, joining with Lieberman loyalist democrats, voted him in. He knows he can never run again here in CT so he’s trying to do as much damage as he can before time runs out. I’m willing to help him pack his bags for Tel Aviv.

I don’t know. My sister and brother-in-law live in Connecticut and they get their health insurance coverage through his large corporate employer. If a public option plan offered less coverage that the coverage they currently enjoy, then they would be opposed to it because they harbor suspicions that the large corporate employer would switch its group coverage from BC/BS to the public option. In a similar vein, they would not be inclined Senator Joe B.S. Liberman if that meant an inferior public option would advance. (On the other hand, they favor a single payer universal health care system, if you asked them their preference between a public option plan and single payer system.)

I think you need to concentrate public recall efforts to those states where there is substantial current unemployment or where there is a traditional lack of employment-based health insurance coverage and there is substantial public sentiment for the public option. Louisiana, I think, would be one such state. Maybe Connecticut as well. My sister and her husband have never voted for Lieberman. They think he’s an ass. But I don’t know how he is viewed state-wide. Still, it would be fun to try.