No more Joe (former friend and colleague)

[kskiska]

`Dead Wrong' On The War And Defense Of Bush, White House Excesses

By IRVING STOLBERG

July 23 2006

Joe Lieberman and I have been friends and colleagues for 38 years. We ran for and won seats in the Connecticut legislature as a team of reformers in 1970. He was my state senator and I was his state representative. He rose to Senate majority leader as I became speaker of the House. With others, we formed the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, a progressive coalition, to further the causes of peace in Vietnam and justice at home.

I have supported him in every election he has had - until now. This year I am supporting Ned Lamont to unseat Joe. Almost four decades of friendship with Joe has made this a wrenching decision for me.

As Joe points out, his record on a number of issues, such as the environment, is good. But on the two biggest issues of our times, he is dead wrong.

His blind support of the Iraq war, begun illegally and a continuing catastrophe, is monstrous.

And his defense of an incompetent president, a vice president who fits the dictionary definition of fascism and an extremist administration that has perpetrated torture, illegal eavesdropping and a general shredding of the Constitution is insulting to the people who elected him in the first place.

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[Erika]

1. Good bye Joe

Too bad you liked the W kiss better than the constitution.

[beltanefauve]

2. The most scathing

condemnation of Joe that I have read to date. This, from someone who has been his friend for almost four decades!

"Joe's constituency is not Bush and Cheney; it is the progressives and moderates, the blacks and Hispanics who gave him his start in politics. We feel he has betrayed us by becoming "Bush's favorite Democrat."

So, Joe, how's it feel? payback is a bitch, ain't it!

[Rageneau]

3. Prediction: Lieberman's position on the war is going to soften soon.

I think Joe is a true politician. Which means I think his position on the war is going to change as the election approaches and he sees how much his support for it is hurting him.

[Larkspur]

5. It's too late for that

He had his chance when the Democrats brought up 2 proposals to change course in Iraq and Lieberman sided with the Republicans.

[nosmokes]

4. s'long joe don't let the door hitcha in the arse while you're bending

over to kiss dubya's.

[yurbud]

6. I can't wait to see Hadassah and his dog endorse Lamont

[yurbud]

7. someone tell the Democrats to pull his plug and his feeding tube

he's going flatline on us--at least as a Democrat.

He probably has a bright future ahead of him as the more affable Zell Miller pet Democrat of the GOP