Sitting Pretty, Lieberman Thumbs His Nose At Dems

[CatWoman]

Seven years ago, Joe Lieberman, hungry for the vice presidency and determined to remove any roadblocks to his nomination as Al Gore's running mate, renounced his past opposition to affirmative action.

"I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action," he pledged to African American delegates the 2000 Democratic convention.

The statement, Lieberman knew, was not true. In 1995, the Connecticut senator had declared his support for a California referendum banning affirmative action policies based on racial preferences:

"You can't defend policies that are based on group preferences as opposed to individual opportunities, which is what America has always been about.... They're patently unfair.... Not only should we not discriminate against somebody, we shouldn't discriminate in favor of somebody based on the group they represent."

Lieberman's bid for the vice presidency failed in 2000. In 2004, he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination only to be rejected decisively. In 2006, Democratic primary voters in Connecticut refused to renominate Lieberman, a firm backer of the Iraq war, for his Senate seat, although he won the general election running as an independent with solid Republican support.

Connecticut voters in 2006 opposed the war by a 2-1 margin, according to network exit polls, but Lieberman won by carrying three quarters of the pro-war electorate and nearly 40 percent of those against the war. Democratic voters were against Lieberman by a 2-1 margin, but he received 70 percent of Republican votes and 54 percent of independent votes.

Now, Senate Democrats hold a slim 51-49 majority and Lieberman's continued membership in the Democratic caucus is crucial - all the more so because South Dakota's Democratic Senator, Tim Johnson, has been unable to participate in proceedings because of a stroke, and the deciding vote in a tie is cast by Vice President Cheney.

Suddenly in the catbird seat, the 65-year-old Connecticut senator is thriving on thumbing his nose at the party that over the past three years has caused him such anguish.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/15/sitting-pretty-lieberman_n_60545.html

[Virginia Dare]

1. We need to pick up a few more Senate seats...

so that Lieberman can take his rightful place under a rock somewhere.

[CatWoman]

2. please, please, please, please

let that senario become reality!!!

[Virginia Dare]

3. Nine more would be golden!....n/t

[Tempest]

4. Lieberman is gone in 2010

There's no way Independents will vote for him again, and there's not enough Repugs in CT to give him the win.

[Larkspur]

7. You mean 2012. That's when his term is up

[tularetom]

8. He'll never be gone

Sure he'll lose his senate seat but watch him pop up on faux as a pundit. His ugly face will always be with us.

I think I dislike him more than crazy zell miller.

[Virginia Dare]

9. At least Zell had an excuse, he's genuinely insane..

Lieberman is just a sleazebag and a turncoat.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

10. Ugly face? Look again, Tularetom -- why he's lovely...

[tularetom]

12. OMFG

:puke: :puke: :puke:
:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

13. C'mon now --- me thinks thou doth protest to much --- you know he's purdy. nt.

[rodeodance]

5. hey, it is other way around-----He has caused greadt anquish!

[Bitwit1234]

6. Think he will flip------flop

the closer 2008 comes around. AFter all if the democrats manage to increase their lead they sure as hell won't need republican Liberman anymore will they.

[Neecy]

11. catbird seat.....*barf*

This old gasbag is trying to position himself as the GOP VP nominee - some kind of bizarro 'unity ticket' although he's a Republican warmonger and empire builder just like the rest of his GOP pals. He doesn't understand that he's even less popular than McCain these days and his political career will consist of little more than running out the clock on his Senate term.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Joe bet on the Pubs and wants to pull out...too late guy...ya showed your hand

[Gabi Hayes]

15. seen this?