Joe Lieberman, forever the punkass

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Lieberman: ‘I Fear’ That ‘America Will Not Survive’ If Democrats Get 60 Senate Seats»

With the possibility that Democrats might soon gain a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has been openly flirting with thoughts of voting with his conservative colleagues. Last week, ThinkProgress noted that prominent conservatives like Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) said he would welcome Lieberman “with open arms.”

Today, in an interview with right-wing radio host Glenn Beck, Lieberman made clear that he firmly opposes Democrats gaining 60 seats in the Senate, saying that the survival of the country is in doubt if Democrats break the filibuster threshold:

BECK: But do you agree that Senator Hatch said to me that if we don’t at least have the firewall of the filibuster in the Senate that in many ways America will not survive?

LIEBERMAN: Well, I hope it’s not like that, but I fear.

Lieberman also hinted that next session, he would be supportive of conservative efforts to filibuster progressive legislation. Lieberman said that the filibuster is a “key” to stop such “passions of the moment”:

LIEBERMAN: And I think the filibuster is the key. You know, it gets a bad name, but it was really put there, a 60-vote requirement, to, as somebody said to me when I first came to the Senate, stop the passions of a moment among the people of America from sweeping across the Congress, the House, through the Senate, to a like-minded President and having us do things that will change America for a long time. So the filibuster is one of the important protections we have.

Listen here: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/04/lieberman-caucus-dems/


Lieberman then left the interview to return to campaigning with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), telling Beck, “I’m real proud of you. I remember you back when.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/04/lieberman-caucus-dems/

[bigscott]

1. fuck him

he knows his ass is going to be kicked to the curb. he is officially irrelevant now and he hates it

fuck him

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Seconded

God, I loathe the man.

[DeepBlueC]

2. He has GOT to go

Weasel

[noiretextatique]

3. fuck you, traitorous asshole

that's the kindest thing i can muster for LIEberman.

[Kurovski]

4. Oh, yes.

And a K and an R.

[wtbymark]

5. we have to have a concerted effort in the next election

to kick this turncoat's ass right out of government. I still cant believe the good people of Connecticut were conned into electing this jackass.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. How long has he been lying to us?

How many more Dems are just like him?

I say we boot Joe out and make him the next Joe the Plumber. Hell, he was the original Plumber. Fucking mole.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Let us all collect...

our urine and mail it to Joe, with a card that says "Dear Joe: A wise person once said that all your dreams are piss. Here's some dreams."

[MadMaddie]

8. That's because Joe knows that he will be stripped of anything

and everything he has and he will be a powerless lame duck. Ha..Ha..Ha...rotten bastard!

[AllyCat]

9. Can't wait to see his a$$ moved to the margins.

Jerk. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out Joe.

[NJGeek]

10. He is why I didn't vote for Gore in 2000

Dipshit.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. He's done what he could to try to stop us from getting 60. Asshole. n/t

[tblue37]

12. I am glad he admitted this publicly. It might help the Senarte Dems

collect the backbone they need to kick him to the curb.

[KamaAina]

14. Hell, if we survived the last eight years, we'll survive anything.

Suck it, Traitor Joe! :grr:

edit; header

[roguevalley]

15. he is the lowest dirt possible.

[onethatcares]

16. progressive legislation being a passion of the moment,me thinks

joe should go. Why do the good people of Conn. keep electing this s.o.b.?

[Chulanowa]

17. Thank you, Connecticut. Thank you

Thank you for your name-recognition and nepotism
Thank you for your inability to tell fact from fiction
Thank you for your fear of being called nasty names

Thank you Connecticut, for Joe Lieberman.

(Do better next time!)

[Oddball]

18. Joe Lieberman is a weak insignificant sempering

little wet fart of a man. May he choke on a pretzel.

[jayfish]

19. The Only Thing He Needs To Fear Is His...

ass getting kicked to the curb by the Dems. ...tomorrow!

Jay

[spooky3]

20. somewhere a curb is missing a kicked ass.

[kayakjohnny]

21. Oh Joe, could you just be done with it for god's sake? Have you no sense of your place in this world

?

[sarcasmo]

22. Why would they continue voting for him, I just don't get his appeal.