Joe Fires His Staff

[kpete]

Lieberman Braces for Defections

The Carpetbagger Report says the Lieberman campaign staff "shake-up" we forecast last week is actually their way of spinning several resignations about to take place.

"Two independent sources have confirmed that some Lieberman aides decided well in advance of yesterday's primary that if the senator abandoned the Democratic Party for an independent campaign, they would resign in protest. Given yesterday's results and Lieberman's announcement, that's exactly what's about to happen."

Update: The AP says Lieberman "fired his campaign manager and spokesman, and asked for the resignations of his campaign staff."

Update II: Longtime Lieberman aide Sherry Brown and his former senate press secretary Dan Gerstein have joined the campaign. In addition, The Hotline notes all remaining staff and consultants have resigned.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/08/09/lieberman_braces_for_defections.html

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,328862,00.jpg

[C_U_L8R]

1. someone needs to tell Joe

that the people fired HIM

[Cha]

3. Wouldn't do any good..he's

as delusional as that monkey in the chimp house that lieberman attached his star to when the chimp was ridin' high and now he's goin' down with him. :nopity: :nopity:

[calimary]

54. That's what happens when you hitch your wagon to an anvil, Joe.

Sorry it happened to you, but I'm even sorrier to see what brought this on. It was YOU repeatedly and relentlessly ignoring your constituents because you thought you knew better than they did, and you pasted yourself to bush - GOD knows why. You made your bed. Now you have to lie down and die in it.

[speedoo]

53. he's out of control.

He used to be just delusional. Now, he's been kicked in the face (deservedly so) and he is out of his mind. His public statements reflect a man who is speaking without thinking.

[femrap]

57. Remember Zell Miller? And how he went

absolutely crazy at the Convention? And now Joe. WTF do the pugs put in these guys' coffees?

I am starting to think they're Manchurian Candidates or something....it's weird.

[PurpleChez]

70. Yeah. Lieberman's an effing parasite. Right now,

I think I despise him almost as much as the chimp

[VolcanoJen]

2. Like I was saying...

Joe Lieberman's Independent Bid - Why I Feel That It Just Isn't Practical.

They started defecting faster than I thought they would... that's encouraging.

I really don't think Joe's in this for the long haul. This is delightful news.

[Taoschick]

43. Firing his staff

Or asking for resignations, if this is true, is the first (and only) decent thing he's done. It allows people who still might feel loyalty to him personally the ability to get the hell away from his independent run without risking their future careers. Who wants to hire someone to run a Democratic campaign that isn't really loyal to the party?

[Richard Steele]

4. It was just kinda awkward having all those DEMOCRATS around, eh Joe?

Nice to see that not everyone he associates with
is as utterly craven as he is.

Here's to the resigning staffers, and to having PRINCIPLES: :toast:

[Protagoras]

5. If true this will backfire on him

if he'd massaged their egos a bit he might have at least kept them quiet. By firing them and blaming them I suspect he's removed most of their motivation for keeping quiet.

Time for some INTERVIEWS!

[BuyingThyme]

6. NPR says he's picking up most of Katharine Harris's staff.

Not really.

[VolcanoJen]

10. Pffffffffftttt

:rofl:

[lutefisk]

22. Lieberman-Harris as the Green Presidential ticket in 2008!

Not really. But ever since Bush took power, nothing surprises me.

[DoYouEverWonder]

35. More like the Brown Ticket

has in shit.

[brer cat]

40. I don't want to send this thread off in different directions but..

BuyingThyme you make my day so often. That was so funny! Now to get serius!!!111! I've been given a bunch of thyme...smells wonderful but I don't know how to use it. Can you live up to your (wonderful) username and tell me how to use it????

[BuyingThyme]

82. In a word, no (I can't). Sorry.

But if you ever need help procrastinating, I may be able to help.

[Snaggletooth]

83. On using thyme.

For culinary purposes, thyme may be used as a seasoning, by adding fresh sprigs to soups, stews, and casseroles. It is a key ingredient in most stuffing recipes and is also excellent for adding to meat marinades (especially chicken). For flavor, fresh thyme trumps the ground seasoning every time!

As an herbal remedy it is highly effective antiseptic used for coughs, colds, gastric problems, wind (gas), colic, bad breath but is most famous, historically speaking, in overcoming uterine problems (it used to be called "mother thyme").

To take advantage of these properties, the oily resins within the plant must be released. This is achieved by adding the leaves (needles) and flowering tops to boiling water and then steeping. The resulting tea has a slightly camphoraceous aroma (great for opening sinus passages)and mildly bitter taste. The addition of honey, extremely healing in its own right, should counteract the bitterness.

The efficacy of thyme tisanes is increased by the addition of other herbs such as peppermint (for colds), ginseng, yarrow, elderflower, even a dash of cayenne (for digestive problems).

I hope this mini-tutorial on thyme is of some use to you.

Best regards,
Snaggletooth the Crone

[PegDAC]

86. Excuse me while I

:spray:

[MisterP]

7. oh, God, I didn't know you meant staffERS

[leveymg]

8. Will Lieberman Hire Rove as his New Campaign Chief?

As things stand, he needs someone. Guess he'll be answering his own phone and licking his own stamps. Unless, of course, he hires this lucky guy to do it for him. Maybe, that's what Rove's call to Joe last night was about?

[Critters2]

33. Karl's doing it for free

as a personal favor for a friend.

[wordpix2]

37. who did Liebman fire? Anyone with names?

[The Wizard]

76. If Rove tells him to

he will. And with Joe's resounding defeat reflecting a desired change in course the terror threats increase. Some things are constant. Joe really lost by 15 points and the crooks can't go beyond a ten point swing without raising questions. How many people really believe in what Bush is doing?

[Little Star]

9. Watching Mathews last night at 1am est. That campaign manager

sure wasn't committing to stay when Tweety asked him about it.

[Botany]

11. o.k. then Joe .... nobody thinks you are joke

[Swamp Rat]

12. Told y'all he's an alien lizard!!!!

[Raydawg1234]

13. thank you for posting this, I did not know that.

Bodes well for former Lieberman supporters voting for Lamont.

[calico1]

14. So he said to his staff:

"You can't quit! You're fired!!!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[LuckyLib]

50. Pre-empting the big news that would follow a protest resignation

on their part. That Karl is slick.

[Yupster]

77. I see it as a necessity too

The staff is no doubt Democratic activists who have worked within the party their whole life.

Most would quit and it would make bad news for him over and over again. He really had to fire them and then he can hire back anyone who wants to stay with him, which won't be many of them.

This will be a good opportunity to see how many of his relatives were paid staffers though.

[Raydawg1234]

15. and how does he plan to finance his campaign now that he's not getting any

money from the DNC?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. he has 2 Mill left. And AIPAC.

And of course, Kath Harris' 1st, 2nd, 3d, 4th and 5th campaign managers avaiable at a discount.

My only question is what will happen to that smarmy piece of wormwood, Lanny Davis?

[Norquist Nemesis]

59. Hey, Karl? You know that help you offered? n/t

[benny05]

68. Karl & His Ilk Will Provide

Joey is their boy.

[Selatius]

16. It's a pre-emptive "YOU'RE FIRED!" to avoid his staffers saying...

"I QUIT!"

[BuyingThyme]

17. He's gonna have to raise another fifteen bucks.

[Emit]

18. Joe ... You're Fired!! n/t

[Binka]

19. STFU And Go Away Joe n/t

[napi21]

20. Hey Joe! KAtie Harris has a bunch of ex-consultants who are

unemployed and looking for a job! I'll get you their phone numbers!!!!!

[flaminbats]

23. what a slime!!

normally I would say they deserved it, but having worked tirelessly on a campaign before..driven with no pay and all passion, I only feel sorry for those scapegoats! Lieberman may ditch his family, friends, and even his religion before this campaign is over. :cry:

[longship]

24. The Truth----

Joe's Democratic Party loyal staff resigns in protest.
Joe to get new, Republican Party loyal staff soon.

[cascadiance]

25. Is he getting anyone from Bob Ney's staff too?

[BrightKnight]

26. Working for Lieberman would be political suicide

Nobody working for him would ever work in Democratic politics again. I would not want to be on that black list.

[Moloch]

27. This is great news...

Joe is an "independent" Katherine Harris...

[badgerpup]

65. Funny you should say that...

If he follows the same pattern of crazy-ass, reality-challenged, you-gotta-be-kidding, is-this-idiot-for-REAL??? :silly: pattern that Harris is demonstrating, we won't have to worry too much about ol' Joe the Schmoe....:crazy:
except for having to replace our keyboards. :spray:

[David Zephyr]

28. Unholy Joe can't have Democrats on his staff reading Rove's memos.

Well, Joe has showed his true colors to any who may have had any doubts.

[KamaAina]

29. Can you feel the Joementum?

Or is it just me? :sarcasm:

[Dukkha]

30. Here he is with his new campaign manager

[IndyOp]

45. No way. Barney is all loyalty & friendship. He'd resign too! ;-) (n/t)

[Kip Humphrey]

31. Joe Just can't accept the WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

So he fires his campaign staff! He can't accept it could be him and his licking the boots of Herr Strauch!

[Tekla West]

32. Right People, wrong job

Perhaps had he kept his first staff working on the election instead of out getting siggy for an "independent" run, he might have won. Oh, cut it out, that is too obvious.

[Pierre.Suave]

34. Time to make some room

for the republican staff...

[DoYouEverWonder]

36. Oh no, Lieberman is turning into Katherine Harris

without the fake boobs.

[CatWoman]

39. lol

my thoughts exactly :D

[freebrew]

79. W/O The Fake Boobs?

Does that mean his are real?

[AlCzervik]

38. another bad sign for him.

[wordpix2]

41. "Connecticut for Lieberman" party? Isn't that a bit egoistic of Joe?

Time to Go Joe, that is.

[praeclarus]

42. pardon my cynicism but ...

... is it possible he doesn't give a rat's ass about
what this looks like and is it possible that he doesn't
care or hope to win as an independant?

What happens if he stays on the ballot and splits the
vote? Can whoever is the republican win that seat?

If he is in bed with the Bushites on this, then he isn't
going to go away no matter how much he is bashed and left
for dead by the democrats. Later he'll get his reward
from the other side.

[wordpix2]

44. "whoever is the republican" is gambler Alan Schlesinger

He has some gambling issues and CT repukes aren't happy with him. Hurray for repuke family values!

Interesting article here:

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/07/21/in_connecticut_bombshell_hits_schlesinger_campaign.html

July 21, 2006

In Connecticut, Bombshell Hits Schlesinger Campaign

The Hartford Courant sent a bunker bomb in to Connecticut Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Alan Schlesinger’s flagging campaign today with revelations that the former legislator was successfully sued for thousands of dollars in casino debts he ran up in Atlantic City venues. Schlesinger’s campaign was rocked last week by the news that, among other things, he had gambled in a Connecticut Indian casino under an assumed name, Alan Gold. His luck will have run out now.

Word of his gambling debts will renew calls for Schlesinger to abandon his tattered candidacy. His falling fortunes caused much speculation Thursday on a successor candidate in the wake of a Quinnipiac poll showing Democrat challenger Ned Lamont leading incumbent Joseph Lieberman for the first time in the August 8th primary. Fainthearted Republicans who had declined to run in the spring, when they thought Lamont a minor protest candidate, are witnessing the rare second chance in the simultaneous declines of Lieberman and Schlesinger.

[praeclarus]

48. good....

... then may Schlesinger and Lieberman go down together.

[ekwhite]

51. Will it be...

The same reward Katherine Harris got for her efforts? :evilgrin:

[praeclarus]

56. exact same reward as Harris...

... the whore doesn't even realize he is being
played like a (cheap) fiddle.

[ima_sinnic]

63. isn't it more likely he'll be splitting the repuke vote?

knowing Limpballs, Boortz, et al's fondness for the likes of Zell Miller and Lieberman, it is not inconceivable that many repukes will throw their vote away with the twisted notion that they will "make a statement" or "punish the dems" by voting for Lieberman. And more than a few might actually LIKE his platform--it is after all totally repuke-lite.

[The Wizard]

75. Stay the course

isn't exactly repuke-lite. It's unadulterated repuke. And by the way, has anyone identified or made a rational argument as to what that course might be?

[lostnfound]

67. Welcome to DU

To the factions that have funded him over the years -- who desire a bought-off-corporatist and/or hawkish agenda -- it only matters that Lamont not win.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that he doesn't CARE whether he wins -- he's obviously comfortable with his privileged position as a Senator -- but I agree that it is possible that Lieberman is pursuing this candidacy with a second, more important goal in mind. I.e., ensuring that someone who will not upset the balance of power in the Senate on the issues that matter to corporatists and hawks.

[PegDAC]

87. I'm thinking

that he just might split the Repugnicans.

[mmonk]

46. _

[aaronbees]

47. And Connecticut Dems fire Joe ...

Nice work on displacing the blame, Joe, for your pathetic candidacy.

[tyedyeto]

49. Is Rove interviewing the new staff?

Wouldn't surprise me one bit if he is.

[connecticut yankee]

52. Did anyone ever tell Joe

that the problem is with him, not his staff?

[Vidar]

55. Heading down the Katherine Harris road--how charming!

[sandrakae]

58. He really is a fucking republican. He blames everyone else but himself.

[opihimoimoi]

61. I agree, Blame Blame Blame...everyone is to Blame but him....

What a JERK

[Warren DeMontague]

60. Paging Captain Queeg... nt

[opihimoimoi]

62. Sending them ball bearings....

[symbolman]

64. Well he's made his choice

Looks like his nose is getting browner by the day :)

[Wetzelbill]

66. well he still has all that charisma, so....

:)

[Borgnine]

69. I got a rather nasty visual from misinterpreting the title of this post.

Trust me, that's not the kind of "Joementum" I wanted to be thinking about tonight.

[SoCalDem]

71. Sounds like an episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

:)

[Hekate]

72. Hiring Katherine Harris's consultant is he? Sorry Joe, won't work. nt

[librarycard]

73. Tom Delay is available

Bring 'im on! :)

[DemonFighterLives]

74. Lieberman Party of 1

I am so happy that everyone is pulling away from him in revulsion.
Yesterday Al Frankin had callers give joe a new campaign slogan.
Lieberman Party of 1 was leading, last I heard.
:rofl:

What kind of holier than thou person thinks he has any more to offer to this country? He has turned on the good Democrats and went over to the mostly hated dark side.
:silly:

[Xenotime]

78. Joe...time to retire to the golf course....

You can't handle today's politics....sorry.

[rabblerowzer]

80. Corporate owned Joe blames the little people

“Lieberman stated on the Today Show that he was committed "to bringing the Democratic Party back from the extreme, back from Ned Lamont and Maxine Waters."

Same old, same old. Corporate owned Joe has reached into the Republican bag of dirty tricks to throw racism in our faces again. Why not, it’s worked thousands of times before? But maybe a few of the millions who vote strictly according to their racial preference will this time reflect on their own economic self-interest for a change and ignore the bait.

Naw, economics is way too complicated for them.

[newyawker99]

81. Hi rabblerowzer!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[benny05]

85. Hi There!

Welcome to the DU! :hi:

[Voltaire99]

84. OMG...think of the families!

Now where will these poor, grievously unemployed folk go to find paychecks shilling for corrupt right wing warmongering assholes?

;-)