Lieberman willing to star at Republican convention

[kskiska]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) at the Republican National Convention in September.

(snip)

Appearing before the Republican convention carries some risk for Lieberman. His Democratic colleagues could seek retribution by taking away his gavel on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee next Congress.

Lieberman has had a long leash this Congress because his decision to caucus with Democrats — despite losing Connecticut’s 2006 Democratic primary — allows them to hold their narrow 51-49 majority. If Democrats pick up more seats as expected in November, and Lieberman angers Democrats along the campaign trail, some privately expect there might be an attempt to deny him his bid to retain his chairmanship.

One Democratic leadership aide said losing his chairmanship could happen in that scenario, but “the bar would have to be very high.”

That’s because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has a close relationship with Lieberman.

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/lieberman-willing-to-star-at-republican-convention-2008-04-15.html

[Lint Head]

1. This creep is a traitor to the Democratic party and the country.

:dem:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. JoeMentum really needs to have his ass kicked.

[wordpix]

85. if only in the next election...

[wordpix]

86. he dreams of being veep to McSame

[saigon68]

5. He'll be doing a stand up impersonation of Zell Miller

He just has to extract his tongue from Bush's anus

[Kittycat]

2. Whatever happened to old Zell after he did that?

[stevedeshazer]

12. Fielding spitballs and drooling and pooping in a diaper at some Confederate War vet home.

:grr:

[struggle4progress]

37. You mean after his "I'm not an angry nut so stop saying that" WSJ editorial?

He got a job pretending to be a Democrat for Fox News (really!)

He still makes headlines from time to time yammering about his ... um ... "ideas": special interest groups didn't dominate Washington before the seventeenth amendment was ratified, abortion causes illegal immigration, &c&c

I'd guess the CAT scans aren't pretty

[NJmaverick]

4. I hope to hell that the Dems get a big enough majority in the Senate

to boot his traitorous ass out of the Democratic party

[mhoran]

21. Amen to that!

His conduct has been disgraceful. He stopped being a Democrat a long time ago (if he ever was one).

[LeftishBrit]

58. He stopped being a proper Dem at least as far back as 1988

When he got elected Senator for the first time - against a *more liberal* Republican opponent, and with the backing of the 'National Review'.

[saigon68]

105. ~

[lark]

73. Get the AIPAC tool out of our laws

and back in his rocking chair. He's a total disgrace and really needs to go. If the Senate gets more Dems and Reid keeps Lieberman on as a Chairman, then Reid too needs to go.

[mac2]

83. Reid couldn't leave fast enough in my eyes.

[JerseygirlCT]

90. Oh yes. He needs to be heading to the complete oblivion

he so richly deserves.

And the lingering memory of his scummy behavior will serve as an apt legacy.

[AlCzervik]

6. ok i'm going to believe this has to be the last straw for CT voters.

for real.

[guyanakoolaid]

7. I'll give him one thing - he shows his true colors and right wing instead of hiding it like Clinton

[Mags]

9. Obama supported him, how do you know what his true colors are, He hasn't been

tested yet.

[DB1]

15. LIEberman was assigned as Obama's mentor in the Senate, I see as an obligatory endorsement.

[mac2]

60. Train the new "leaders" in the Senate for the future.

Ya get to learn how to be a "profit center" and go along with the agenda.

[guyanakoolaid]

16. He has been tested. Everyone has. It was the vote on the IWR. He failed. Hillary failed.

[Ken Burch]

36. Obama only supported Lieberman in the primary.

Unlike some of the Southern Democratic senators, who were disloyal to the party and supported Lieberman as an conservative independent candidate in the fall. Many of them now support HRC. None, as far as I know, back our frontrunner.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

77. And some of our state dems like Amman who now wants

to run for governor. I hope he has strong primary opponent. I'll vote for Rell (Repub) before I'll vote for Amman. Payback's a b*tch

[Zhade]

47. Another lie. You emulate your candidate perfectly.

NT!

[NickB79]

53. And Gore chose him as a future VP in 2000

Are we going to start questioning just how blue Al Gore is now?

[Rockholm]

104. Didn't take long for the Clinton smear. Thanks.

Tool.

[rwheeler31]

8. What an ugly man. What is wrong with CT?

[mac2]

11. Lamont do something stupid or the computers fixed?

[diane in sf]

39. The repugs ran a weakling against him and LIEberman picked up most of the Repug votes

as well as some Dem votes.

[mac2]

41. Don't you think it was a stolen election?

Why Lamont didn't win is a mystery to me. But then again I wasn't in his state to see the story.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

78. No suspicion of it being stolen in terms of fraudulent voting, etc

The repubs ran a clown against him and many state Dem "leaders" endorsed LIEberman in the general despite we the people having chosen Lamont in the primary. But karma is a b*tch. "Who did you support in the GE in 2006 ?" is one way I am deciding on whom to support in local elections and delegate choices on my town committee.

[mac2]

101. I remember Dems going to support him for election.

Lieberman gets the party support and power regardless of his betrayal. Why is that? Many party leader Dems are really Repubs?

[stevedeshazer]

10. Thanks, Zell Lieberman. Thanks for stealing Gore's election in 2000, too

Thanks, Connecticut, nice job. Way to go. We could have had Sen. Ned Lamont.

Instead we have Zell Lieberman, warmonger.

[kskiska]

13. According to the article, Joe has nothing to fear

(snip)

Unlike a number of Democratic colleagues who backed Lieberman’s challenger Ned Lamont after the 2006 primary, Reid offered words of praise for the senator, saying he would not “turn on Joe.” Reid called Lieberman and promised him a chairmanship if he won reelection, a move that angered some Lamont supporters.

Even though Reid may not need Lieberman next Congress to claim a Senate majority, he told Lieberman in private conversations that he would protect his seniority.

“I can tell you Sen. Reid had talked to me a few times and said he knows there will be talk if we get more than 51 Democrats next year,” Lieberman told The Hartford Courant this month. “As far as he is concerned, I will retain my seniority, et cetera, no matter how many Democrats there are next year.”

[The Wizard]

18. The part Reid left out was

Holy Joe keeps his seniority only if Iraq's weapons of mass destruction materialize. Maybe he'll be named Chairman of the Quisling Committee.

[Raineyb]

27. Perhaps....

We will need a new Senate Majority Leader come 2009.

Reid's been pretty useless and if he thinks that protecting LIEberman's seniority is a good idea, especially as it would come at the cost of the Democrats being able to get things done since LIEberman has already shown his true colors and cannot even be considered a DINO at this point, then clearly Senator Reid has been smoking some kind of hallucinogenic herb.

LIEberman needs to be kicked to the curb... like yesterday!

I can't believe that he was supposed to be our Vice President.

:puke:

Regards

[awoke_in_2003]

31. We could use a new

speaker of the house, too. Welcome to DU

[mac2]

44. YES!

[Raineyb]

94. Thank You (nt)

Regards

[saigon68]

56. Kicked to the Curb

he needs to be taken out on his handlers leash and thrown under the bus

[Bake]

72. My sentiments exactly on Reid.

If he's going to continue to be loyal to Joe, maybe he needs a dose of bare-knuckle politics. We'll see how long he supports Lieberman if his job as majority leader is threatened.

Bake

[MidwestTransplant]

35. HRC will be Senate Majority Leader. Let's see if she has the chutzpah to keep JoMentum around.

[mac2]

65. A promise of power to the corporate hack.

Shame on you Reid.

[Olney Blue]

14. Take away his gavel and hit him with it.

[Usrename]

17. He has reached full buffoon status.

At least he is no longer dangerous.

[mac2]

66. Even one vote in the 50/50 Congress can be dangerous.

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[mac2]

81. Too late I'm afraid.

[CatholicEdHead]

19. Just another reason to stay out of St Paul that week

[Canuckistanian]

20. Following in the Great Tradition of Zell Miller

By the way, where IS Zell these days?

Is the Democratic Party building a statue for him somewhere to make up for "leaving him"?

[Bjorn Against]

22. He is no longer a Democrat, he has already knocked down that very high bar

We don't allow Republicans to chair committees, why the hell should Lieberman get special treatment? That very high bar was knocked down the moment he decided to ignore the Democratic primary voters.

[PDittie]

23. If Al Gore were President

this douchebag would be the 2008 Democratic nominee.

So see, things could be worse ...

[New Dawn]

24. That is a good point.

In addition, he would have been in the White House the entire eight years demanding an illegal invasion of Iraq. I think he might have played a role quite similar to Dick Cheney.

[lark]

74. President Gore would not have listened

to LIEberman, he's too smart for that.

[Bjorn Against]

28. While Gore made a horrible VP pick things would not be worse if we had him for the last eight years

And when Lieberman couldn't even win the primary in his home state, I don't think he would have won the Democratic Presidential nomination even if he had been VP.

[Traction311]

55. No he wouldn't, because you're assuming Gore would have been re-elected

The country gets tired of one party rule, so more than three terms by any one party is extremely unlikely. And even if it did happen, I'm willing to bet Jomentum wouldn't have drifed so rightward.

[mac2]

61. Lieberman was a strange choice by the leadership

or was it to lose (like every election since then) so they could get their war against Iraq? Republicans were beside themselves with approval of him as the first Jewish VP. They knew Lieberman was not liked and people feared him as President.

If our party wanted the "first Jewish VP" why not choose a popular one in our party like Wellstone? Well...we all know Wellstone was anti-war in the ME. Wellstone was a Democrat...Lieberman was not.

Gore should have won hands down since people don't like change in the good times. It seems so long ago that I warned the Dems not to do it. Stupid isn't the word for it. Do they really want to win and are they just there to pick minority candidates as the first this or that?

[LeftishBrit]

79. Shouldn't think so.

A VP doesn't have the automatic right to the party's presidential nomination, after all; though several have done so recently.

I think Gore made a bad choice there; but no one could be worse than Cheney (The Devil Incarnate).

[mac2]

102. We lost votes we need to defeat Faux President Cheney

[BREMPRO]

25. His transformation complete...the unmasking of RW Joe Lie_berman

this DINO can drop the D.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

29. lest we forget...

[raystorm7]

40. LOL...loved this one. Looks like its time to dust off that old Jedi saber.

[mac2]

42. Joe is self serving.

[RedG1]

26. from central Connecticut here...

please don't blame ALL of us

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

30. F U Joe...

Sell out. Fortunately for us, you have proven yourself to be a nothing but a shill for years now. You exchanged your party and core beliefs for political gain. You sir are a whore and not relevant.

[aaroh]

32. Get Rid of the spineless Harry Reid too.

[mac2]

43. How about a poll on his ratings? Bet they are low for Dems.

[MidwestTransplant]

33. JoMentum is a one issue person....BOMB IRAN

[mac2]

62. Yet another Neo Con who is a "couch potato warrior" for profit.

People may think he is a Zionist but I think he's just self absorbed and corrupt.

[Eric Condon]

34. Sounds like Lieberman wishes we lived in the days when you could challenge a person to a duel. nt

[mac2]

63. While he sat and watched.

[BlooInBloo]

38. The gift the jackass fuckwipe Connecticut electorate keeps on giving us....

... Thanks Connecticut! Love you right back!

[wordpix]

84. hey! Not all of us in CT love Joementum. Some of us tried to replace him with Ned Lamont, remember?

[muryan]

45. DUEL TWEETY!!!

this guy has a special level of hell reserved for him i hope

[Zhade]

46. TO ALL OF THOSE WHO SUPPORTED HIM WHEN HE LOST TO LAMONT: FUCK YOU.

We told you this would happen.

[saigon68]

57. Yes we did

And you're right--- Its getting worse than even I imagined. He is a total puppet of his masters.

A shell of a man who is shilling for certain interests

[Divine Discontent]

48. I don't HATE anyone...

but if I ever started to - Momentum would be in the battle for the first one on my list...


he's such a putz. I couldn't stand to be around him.... at ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[Frisbee]

49. I usually try to temper my language, but....

Fuck that son-of-bitch. Kick his ass out of the party. We shouldn't need that asshole after the elections, anyway, so boot his sorry ass. Douche-bag. :mad:

[IndianaGreen]

50. Following in Zell Miller's footsteps!

Next year Lieberman should get nothing!

[mac2]

64. Does he still have any power on committees?

[IndianaGreen]

96. He is Chair of Homeland Security Committee

a very powerful post.

[mac2]

99. I asked Pelosi to remove him since he never votes for

Democrats. We don't need him. Why give him power over our security when he wants us to be fearful and go to war?

I'm not feeling very safe Nancy.

[LTR]

51. I would love it if he went all Zell Miller on all of them

Unfortunately, we're talking about Joementum, the most boring and depressing human being on the planet.

They can have him. I'm sure the Democrats will have speakers that have, oh, a pulse.

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[NickB79]

54. It makes my skin crawl to know the RW convention will be right down the road from me

And now Lieberman might be there as well? Ugh, the only way this could get worse is if the zombie of Ronald Reagan comes shambling out of the Mississippi River right into downtown St. Paul.

[LeftishBrit]

59. I wonder if Tony Blair will fight him for the role?

They could share it perhaps? The Poodles' Keynote Speech: "Woof, woof, my turn to lick Georgie's face!"

[Blue_Tires]

67. hate to say i told you so....

[ToughLuck]

68. Joe Zionist Lieberman..have a good time with your new friends

keep ignoring the polls in Israel that state over 60% of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas...you freaking lunatic and radical war monger. Maybe you and McCain will sing a duet of bomb Iran together..how cozy.

[yurbud]

69. What did France do with Marshal Petain after World War II?

but of course Lieberman is no Petain--he was never a war hero.

[saigon68]

70. Holy Joe was another Viet-Nam Draft Dodger

[yurbud]

71. Rachel Maddow had someone on saying John Wayne was the template for all GOP pols

All swaggering manhood and war-mongering in public, but when he had a chance to fight he did all he could to avoid it.

[mac2]

82. Couch warrior in CT

[David__77]

75. Why does he have Stockholm syndrome?

What happened to him during his early development?

[mac2]

100. Joe is for Joe.

Joe is not a person who represents his own country. He is a globalist and self interested. The seat of power set him on the wrong track.

I could blame his religious group for putting fear into his head but that doesn't happen to all. He's a "couch warrior" who sends other people to war for his own power and profit. Joe is a big defence industry supporter.

[Virginia Dare]

76. C'mon Joe, you know you're a repuke at heart.. have a little integrity..

and go over the dark side. Enough of this namby-pamby Independent bullshit. You're one of THEM now. Get the fuck out and don't ever darken our doorstep again.

I see where his good bud President Shitstain gave his wife a comfy little job. How cute.



Hadassah Lieberman was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Lieberman, the wife of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), will be appointed by President Bush to a five-year term, according to the White House.

Lieberman was among 11 people named to the council, which oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Joining her are Norman Bobins and Andrew Hochberg of Illinois; Joseph Brodecki and Michael David Epstein of Maryland; Donald Etra and Pierre-Richard Prosper of California; David Flaum and Howard Konar of New York; Ezra Katz of Florida; and Douglas Korn of Connecticut.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108074.html

[KamaAina]

87. If it stomps like an elephant, and trumpets like an elephant...

it might be...

[IronLionZion]

88. The best solution here is to increase our majority enough so we don't need him

then strip him of his leadership to let him wallow in his own mud. The Republicans gave Zell the favors he wanted, they can do the same for Joe. He doesn't need us and we don't need him. Damn I wish Lamont had won.

So let's elect more Democrats.

[JerseygirlCT]

89. Everytime I think he couldn't do something to top the last

or make me want to vomit harder, he comes up with something new.

[Doctor_J]

91. When the new Webster's edition comes out, Joe's picture should be next

to "pathetic"

[last_texas_dem]

92. Screw you, Zell Lieberman

Here's hoping you become completely deranged and start yelling some thing about defending ourselves with spitballs while you whore for McCain, like your mentor Zig-Zag Zell did four years ago! Maybe challenge Tweety to a duel as well...

Hopefully the Democrats will pick up some Senate seats (or at least even *one* more seat) this November so whether this traitor caucuses with us or not will no longer matter.

[ryanmuegge]

93. This guy has no loyalty or principles.

[vssmith]

95. I hope he isn't a Super Delegate

[mac2]

103. If he is head of a powerful committee...he is a delegate.

Probably a Super, Super delegate from CT. Gasp.

[unkachuck]

97. well, congratulations joe!!

....a keynote address at the main repug circle-jerk; not too shabby....I know you'll do well there, and feel right at home....

....boy, that's a relief....I was beginning to think my judgment of you was a little clouded and unfair....and that maybe I had been wrong....

[fujiyama]

98. I can see cringing, holding our nose

and trying to hold on to him until '09, but after that? Even when we're almost definitely going to pick up seats?

WTF?! Reid is a stupid cowardly prick. Talk about weak. Do we have any rules of loyalty in place? He should be kicked out of the party in '09. If Reid won't forward such a motion he doesn't deserve the majority leader post. Granted, he doesn't anyways...but this is another great reason!

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