Liberal Group Encourages Lieberman To Keep Raising Money — for the Other Side

[babylonsister]

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/09/liberal_group_encourages_liebe_1.html


Liberal Group Encourages Lieberman To Keep Raising Money — for the Other Side
By CQ Staff | 9:37 AM; Sep. 21, 2007


It’s not every day a lawmaker gets blamed for helping the other side. But then again, when that lawmaker is Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, it’s hard to tell which side he’s on.

Is he a Democrat — he does chair a committee — or an independent, as he’s referred to in the Senate? Or is he — as the liberal group Moveon.org suggested Wednesday — a pro-war senator intent on helping pro-war Republicans get re-elected.

Moveon.org jumped on Lieberman for helping Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, raise money for her 2008 re-election campaign.

Lieberman and Collins have worked closely for years on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Lieberman now chairs. Collins has been targeted by liberal Democrats who think she has too often supported the administration’s Iraq policy.

But liberal groups also see Lieberman as a liability, not a help to GOP candidates. Moveon.org says it was able to raise a whopping $355,000 during a 24-hour e-mail fundraising campaign for anti-war House members Tom Allen, D-Maine, and Patrick J. Murphy, D-Pa. Allen plans to challenge Collins for her Senate seat.

“We encourage Sen. Lieberman to do fundraisers for other Republican senators who support the Iraq War,” said Moveon.org Executive Director Eli Pariser.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. HE IS NOT A DEMOCRAT

Everyone should sent a very short, succinct reminder to the Congressional Quarterly -- of all publications! -- to remind the editorial staff that Lieberman is an independent and NOT a Democrat.

[babylonsister]

3. They know that and inferred it in the article. They're pointing out what

a rethug tool he is.

[pansypoo53219]

4. and yet

joemental INSISTED HE was the REAL democrat in 04'.
so confussed.

[Totally Committed]

2. Joe Lieberman is a LIAR, and is NOT a DEMOCRAT.

He needs to MoveOn, and take all the other DINO Blue Dog/Bush Dog colluders with him.

TC