Lieberman is all alone...Ouch

[kpete]

Lieberman is all alone
by kos
Fri Dec 09, 2005 at 12:53:00 PM PDT
Go Harry:



Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), yesterday on the Bill Press Show: "I've spoken to Joe Lieberman and he knows he's out there alone. I mean, literally alone. Joe is a fine man, he has strong feelings, but he's just alone. Even Republicans don't agree with Joe."


Ouch.

http://www.dailykos.com/

and...

Slow Joe not taking the job
Chris Matthews reported this morning on MSNBC that Lieberman will not take Rummy's job.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/12/09.html#a6248

[mod mom]

1. Why would anyone be willing to work with these criminals?

[Cleita]

2. Did you hear Obama say on Franken's show today,

"Joe Lieberman and the rest of the Republicans...."?

[fooj]

3. Good for Obama!

:kick:

[w13rd0]

4. Haha...

...that's shweet. I'm sure it was a "slip of the tongue" on Obama's part, but a pretty nice one...

[azmouse]

5. I'm pretty sure he said it deliberately.

And he sounded like he really meant it to be a insult.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. I agree, I'd bet real money that Obama was well aware....

of what he was saying and how it would be interpreted.

[wryter2000]

9. Did he really?

I was listening, but I missed that. Good for Obama!

[Cleita]

13. He slipped it in fast and didn't get much of a reaction,

but Al said that he knew he was making a joke.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Nope

I'll have to listen to that tonight.

[entanglement]

22. Hahaha! Fabulous!

:rofl:

[Selatius]

6. Is it because he tried to stifle debate like a rightwing authoritarian?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5551870&mesg_id=5551870

If he is alone, he is alone because he did it to himself.

[The Whiskey Priest]

7. All BY Myself

Livin' alone
I think of all the friends I've known
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home


FUJoementum

[MrBenchley]

10. On the other hand....

For all those who want to scream about joe being a traitor who hurts the party....It isn't Joe Lieberman's soundbite that's the basis if millions of dollars worth of gleeful GOP ads, is it?

[mikehiggins]

15. You can judge a man by his enemies

Dean has lots of neo-con and theocrepulican enemies. Lieberman has the mothers and fathers whose sons and daughters have been become burnt offerings on the neo-con altars.

I know whose side I'm on.

As to the scream, which was a fake issue to begin with, and continues to be a fake issue, its hardly something to point to as hurting the party. Its a weapon used against the party, and nothing else.

How about Kerry and those phony Purple Hearts? Should we hold JK liable for the lies of the GOP?

[MrBenchley]

19. Jeeze, Joe doesn't have many enemies

except among the "teen progressives" on DU...and they don't count for shit.

"As to the scream"
Yeah, that's why Dean is scrambling around today doing damage control for his careless statement in San Antonio...because of the scream.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Why do you hate Democrats MrBenchly? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. I'll ask again

are you really a progressive? You seem to be on the wrong side very often now

[MrBenchley]

27. Ask what you like, Nadine....

"You seem to be on the wrong side"
Says the woman making excuses for racist, misogynistic, violent video games who's also itching to shoot her fellow citizens in the name of revolution. I'll stay where I am, thanks.

[Marr]

17. LMFAO

Right- because we can't possibly back people who piss off the GOP.

[MrBenchley]

18. Geeze, Dean didn't piss off the GOP....

They're gleefully running ads using Dean's soundbite and putting out press releases quoting him.

Dean carelessly opening his yap is about the only good thing that's happened to the Republican party since the Terri Schiavo crap blew up in their faces.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. You know what

Deam SPEAKS FOR ME and MANY REAL PROGRESSIVES, now if you think he mispoke and is bad, but you like Joe... maybe it is time for YOU AND JOE to become Republicans

[MrBenchley]

28. So when Dean says we have to win the war and wants to do a deal with Bush

much like Joe did, you support him? Ho-kay. "We need a special task force of anti-terrorist troops stationed in the Middle East, because we're going to have to deal with Zarqawi for a long time…..We can only win the war, which we have to win, if we change our strategy dramatically. The Democrats are coalescing around a very different strategy. We hope the president will join us," Dean said on CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/08/democrats.iraq/

[Marr]

26. Let me see if I understand you:

Guys like Joe Lieberman, who consistently work to undermine the Democratic Party and help push Republican issues through "bipartisanship" and "consensus", are just fabulous. But saying something worthy of a GOP attack ad (opposing the Bush Administration, in other words), is bad.

That makes alot of sense, uh-huh. You know, I'll bet if adopt that strategy, we'll keep on winning forever.

[MrBenchley]

29. Nope., Not a clue....

"Guys like Joe Lieberman, who consistently work to undermine the Democratic Party and help push Republican issues"
Like reproductive choice (Lieberman fights for it), environmental protection (Lieberman fights for it), stem cell research (Lieberman fights for it), health care for the poor (Lieberman fights for it), gun control (Lieberman fights for it), expanding “Hate Crimes” to include women, gays, and disabled (Lieberman fights for it), sex education (Lieberman fights for it), higher car and truck mileage standards (Lieberman fights for it), renewable and solar energy (Lieberman fights for it), Keeping the ANWR safe (Lieberman fights for it), national health insurance pool-free for children and the poor (Lieberman fights for it).

Is it too much to ask that you look at his actual record before you start condemning him?

"But saying something worthy of a GOP attack ad"
WORTHY? jeeze, kid, Dean gave the Republicans a soundbite to use that they ARE using.

Excuse the fuck out of me if I don't exactly accept YOU as an arbiter of "sense"...

[Larkspur]

30. Lieberman recently voted against a citizen's right to habeas corpus

And he went against Senate Dem strategy on the bankruptcy bill by voting FOR cloture on the bankruptcy bill. He knew full well that it would pass on once it got to the Senate floor.

Lieberman is a war criminal for his enthusiastic support of the Iraq war and a douche bag.

[MrBenchley]

33. Oh, did he?

Of course, since you don't give us a Senate bill number, perhaps you're talking about Lindsey Graham's last minute addition to the Defense Appropriations Bill.

But then you couldn't be doing that, because the Defense Appropriations Bill passed with unanimous consent, and clearly only Joe Lieberman is voting for the bill you mentioned.

[Marr]

32. I do pay attention to Lieberman's actions, thanks.

That's why I think he's a GOP tool.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Wow

It's pretty bad when even republicans won't talk to you. It seems like nobody trust's him.

[grateful581]

14. Has he changed parties yet

He has sure been kissing some elephant ass lately

[mikehiggins]

16. Its doubtful the GOPukes want him. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

20. Bentadick Lieberman has sold out to king George for 30 pieces

of silver!

[wishlist]

25. Joe Lieberman crossed the line when he sang the praises of Halliburton

Last year before the election I heard him extolling the virtues of Halliburton and what they were doing in Iraq. Rather than helping Kerry get elected, he was propping up Bush and Cheney in their disastrous war.

[meisje]

31. Nomentum