Lieberman Will Not Probe Bush Administration Over Katrina

[wellst0nev0ter]

good fucking job, voters of Connecticut, of voting into office another assclown Republican:

Jan. 11, 2007 - Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

Lieberman’s reversal underscores the new role that he is seeking to play in the Senate as the leading apostle of bipartisanship, especially on national-security issues. On Wednesday night, Bush conspicuously cited Lieberman’s advice as being the inspiration for creating a new “bipartisan working group” on Capitol Hill that he said will “help us come together across party lines to win the war on terror.”

But the decision by Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to back away from the committee's Katrina probe is already dismaying public-interest groups and others who hoped the Democratic victory in November would lead to more aggressive investigations of one of the White House’s most spectacular foul-ups.

[Stephanie]

1. I hate his guts.

I hate Lieberman more than I hate Gingrich and Delay.

[RiverStone]

12. Even more then Zell Miller!

Yep - Joe has him beat in the Hypocrite Award for slimy kiss rethug ass behavior.

Lets cut Joe loose - even if it means we lose our Senate majority, we are compromising too much - the way he has betrayed his former party is beyond shameful. I'd rather we give him his rethug badge of honor, and hope the likes of Snowe will consider switching to DEM or INDIE.

Loserman deserves not one ounce of attention anymore from DEMS.

[Stephanie]

16. NO

We must keep our majority. It's the only hope for our nation. It's our only hope.

[RiverStone]

32. I'd love to keep a majority...

Though Joe may switch regardless of what you or I want. Is he using us or are we using him? Maybe a little of both - I just look forward to the day when he don't need to dance with a man who's actions and political allegiance is so adverse to so much of what we are passionate about.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/11/13/lieberman_wont_rule_out_gop_caucusing/

~PEACE~

[rosesaylavee]

46. Who was it that said to

keep your enemies closer than your friends. Joe 'unleashed' would be more dangerous.

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[MonkeyFunk]

61. why?

are you saying Lieberman's gay? Bush is gay?

Oh, I get it. cuz they're evil republicans, therefore they must be gay. Gosh, that never gets tiresome around here.

[Horse with no Name]

3. I am getting some bad vibes with joe

Possible scenario.
Cheney resigns due to health reasons.
McCain is appointed VP.
Bush resigns due to health reasons.
McCain ascends the Presidency.
Lieberman is appointed VP.

There is something foul up here. Very foul.

[uppityperson]

9. you are not alone in thinking this.

[DemBones DemBones]

50. I have thought the same, though

I think it could be Holy Joe as prez. W hates McCain.

Holy Joe would be a very dangerous person to have in the Oval Office.

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. I want some Republics to cross the aisle

and I want his ass OUT of our party. He doesn't deserve any of the majority power.

[napi21]

5. OK/ So why can't some other committee do it?

Lets see, we have Commerce, Environment, Health, and appropriations committees. I can see reasons for any or all of them to investigate Katrina. Screw Joe Leiberman. All I want from him is to staya Dem long enoughfor us to get another Senator to either switch partiesfrom Pub to Dem orhave some corruptOub to get thrown out and have his Dem Governor name a Dem replacement!

[Hippo_Tron]

38. FEMA is under Homeland Security that's why Lieberman's committee has the main oversight

I think our best bet is to have the House do oversight.

[DemBones DemBones]

53. Yes, the House will have to do all the heavy hitting,

thanks to Quid Pro Joe.

[WinkyDink]

59. Yes, moving FEMA to his pet dept was a master stroke by Bush.

It no longer will be to rescue; it will be, as we saw, to send armed troops into American cities to merely watch as people die.

[Beelzebud]

62. Why did he even get a chair? He's not even a damn democrat...

[jgraz]

6. just one more democratic senator

Then we can kick his ass to the curb.

[Joe Bacon]

7. If only John Edwards stayed in the Senate...

...we could tell Jihad Joe to fuck off.

That's the main bone I have to pick with Edwards!

[DemBones DemBones]

51. Well, if Holy Joe had done the right thing and

run only for VP with Gore, not simultaneously to keep his Senate seat, we might be at the middle of President Gore's second term. Also, it was Joe who said on national tv that they would not contest military ballots when it was known that there were military ballots cast after election day.

So, I think Edwards was right not to run for two offices at once. And he didn't want Kerry to concede as soon as he did.

[Bitwit1234]

8. Give the chair to someone else

the dems probably thought the chairmanship would put him in the dem camp. WRONG. Strip him of the seat and give it to a dem he is going to vote republican anyway. Is the governor of Conn. democrat, if so impeach him.

[katsy]

13. Absolutely!

We do not have a majority in the Senate and we'd better be smart about this.

Giving lieberman chairmanships on Democratic committees is not the way to go.

[texpatriot2004]

10. TRAITOR! Lieberman is a TRAITOR! nm

[RiverStone]

11. Loserman is the new poster boy of the rethug party...

Who wants to start a betting pool on the date this disgusting excuse of a former DEM will formally switch parties?

Gawd CT voters, how could you NOT see what you were doing?!!

[Selatius]

14. Joe Lieberman is betraying all the innocent victims who died during Katrina.

There is no excuse not to open up a probe into FEMA's performance and the performance of everybody else during a period where thousands died.

[DemBones DemBones]

54. They were just black people, you know,

nothing to get worked up over. :grr:

I really, really hate LIEberman.

[Nutmegger]

15. I'M SORRY EVERYBODY!

I'm really sorry that this piece of TRASH represents my fine state.

I tried. I along with many others. I went for a bit on nothing but salads because I spent my days doing my chores for Team Lamont. Others practically spent their lives working for Lamont.

LIEberMe lied, smeared and maintained an illegal slush fund. 80% of his dollars came from out of state. 70% of the Rethugs voted for his sorry ass.

In the end, the sheep marched right into the booth and voted to give this thug six more years of disappointment.

I'm ashamed. :(

[fooj]

17. Think of this...

look forward to the day that we can see the treasonous, rat bastard indicted. He's a criminal. He's a traitor. It's just a matter of time.

Count on it.

[Nutmegger]

23. That's a comforting though.

Thanks, that does bring down the blood pressure a bit. :)

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. Okay, Maybe I Was A Little Harsh On Connecticut

I should have said Connecticut Republicans and those 40 percent turncoat Dems that were fooled into thinking LIEberman was a "moderate". I wonder how they sip their camomile tea in their ivory towers these days.

[Nutmegger]

24. And the Independent voters too.

They voted for LIEberMe in droves.

But, as you have pointed out, fellow Dems voted for this bastard too! That just makes me want to scream.

[RiverStone]

20. The shame is not yours -

Ah Nutmegger, please do not be ashamed for trying to spread the TRUTH about Loserman's real identity. The shame is not yours, but those approx 30% of so-called DEMS that voted for this war mongering fool.

I'm curious, do you know any former Loserman apologists that drank the Kool-Aid and voted for him...and now admit to being an idiot? I want to hear just one person recant his vote. Or are they all hiding in shame in some dark corner.

Loserman is sitting back, waiting for the choice moment to formally declare his true colors and switch sides. I'm sure he will be welcomed into the rethug party; and then we can forever cut him lose.

[Nutmegger]

27. Thanks for your kind words.

In a tiny way I feel responsible because I know that everybody was looking at us. The 30% of the Dems who voted for this bastard are worse than the Rethugs and Independents.

I don't know of any Loserman apologists who have recanted their vote for him. They're all hiding in shame. Interestingly enough, his flopping is not being covered in the local M$M.

The day for him to finally switch cannot come soon enough. Hopefully we'll pick up a few more seats in 2008 and finally rid ourselves of him.

Thanks friend. :)

[rosesaylavee]

47. You are not alone

my district here in Illinois voted in Denny Hastert AGAIN despite valiant efforts to replace him and despite his idiocy with the Foley matter (among so many others).

No need for shame - you worked to replace him and it just didn't work... this time.

[depakid]

19. This is why tLieberman should have been stripped of his seniority

I expect that he'll keep on backstabbing us every chance he gets.

[Sleepless In NY]

21. Didn't Mary Landrieu(D La) back Joe instead of Lamont?

Wonder what she thinks of back stabbing Joe now?

[Nutmegger]

28. Yes she did.

She proudly came up to support him.

:puke:

[fooj]

39. Cooper broadcast from NO this evening.

Talked about how little, if any money has landed in the hands of the residents there. Perfect timing for the broadcast, IMO.

[leesa]

56. Exactly...she got what she deserves.

[WindRavenX]

22. fuck you, Lieberman

:grr:

[Bluebear]

25. 'has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands', FUCK you Joe.

pardon my French.

[frustrated_lefty]

26. It's a bad joke.

The people who went through Katrina figured out a long time ago the government was NOT on our side. It would, in all honesty, be kinder if they just let the topic die along with the corpses in the waters. Hinting at the possibility of doing something and then letting that DINO fucktard sob decide, "well, maybe not" is salt in a wound already too sore.

The motherfuckers who weren't there don't have a clue what they're playing with.

[KharmaTrain]

29. The House Will Do The Real Dirty Work Here

Who gives a rip what Liebermann says now. His only vote I cared about was for Harry Reid...now he can go pound sand.

I expect Henry Waxman will take the lead in the investigations of contractors and the government's "no bid" deals in both Iraq and Katrina. The House is almost always the body that does the investigations anyway.

[charlie]

30. Classic Joe

Our "Conscience of the Senate" has always been the obstructionist in investigation of Bushco high mischief. He sat on his biscuity ass as chairman of the GA committee 5 years ago, with Waxman blast faxing him letters saying I've got the goods on Bush-Enron let's go!, and the rest of us going c'mon Joe, c'MON JOE. Fucker dawdled, Bush skated. He was really keen about rummaging in Clinton's boxer shorts though. The weird prick.

[WritersBlock]

31. Okay, so I'm naive here, but what do we have to do to have him stripped of the chairmanship?

He's just refused to do his duty.

So how do we relieve him of it officially and get someone in there who will investigate the incompetence and negligence that was the administration's non-response to Katrina?

[charlie]

33. We don't

Not unless we want to make Cheney the 51st senator. Joe will almost certainly start tossing more of his votes to the Republican side, or just flip altogether, if he gets stripped of his seniority perks.

[fooj]

40. How long are we willing to compromise our beliefs and values for this treasonous, rat bastard?

He undermines the Dems every chance he gets. Enough already.

[charlie]

42. Until we decide losing the Senate is a bearable price

The oleaginous shit has us by the curlies. Either we endure him fucking up the agenda on a single committee or we endure Republican chairs on every committee fucking up all the agendas. It's just cost-benefit. To get what we want, Joe wins. Sucks, but there it is.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Bushco will badly abuse another Senator, like he did Jeffords.

[me b zola]

34. Recall or impeach LIEberman

I guess joe had to re-pay bush* for getting him re-elected. This won't be the last horrible, criminal deed that LIEberman does for his puke masters! :grr:

[wellst0nev0ter]

36. Connecticut Is Not A Recall State, I'm Afraid

and I'm not sure being a turncoat Dem is an impeachable offense, although I sorely wish it was :grr:

[walldude]

35. Joe Lieberman is NOT a Democrat.

That is all.

[CarbonDate]

37. 448,077

Coincidence? I think not.

[moondust]

41. Aw, what's a little criminal negligence among buds?

Payback perhaps?

[lebkuchen]

43. The photos the Bushies have on Lieberman/McCain must be vivid

My dad, however, wonders if McCain didn't land on his head when he bailed out over Nam.

[hootinholler]

44. WTF is Lieberman doing with a CHAIR?

Since when does an I get a chair?

-Hoot

[salin]

48. political coercsion - give me the chair - or I don't caucus with dems

and there is no dem majority, and cheney has the tie breaking vote.

[no_hypocrisy]

45. Sounds like reciprocity for Rove helping Lieberman raise all the campaign

money as an "Independent" to run against Ned Lamont.

[Virginia Dare]

57. Exactly, he's clearly been bought...n/t

[Tin Man]

49. It's just "quid-pro-Joe"

Remember Joe's conversations with Rove after the Conn. primary?
Remember how the RNC refused to support their own candidate in the election?

Lieberman is just returning the favors. What a surprise.

Quid-pro-Joe !!!

[DemBones DemBones]

52. Quid pro Joe!

:rofl:

That's a name we ought to stick to him.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

55. Then he will be aiding and abetting a criminal. nt

[WinkyDink]

58. This is a betrayal of the dead and the displaced. Lieberman disgusts me.

[rudy23]

60. This is an outrage--we need those emails between * and Cheney

This is so wrong it's unbelievable. Please tell me we're going after this in the house. We need to see those emails.

They are hiding something HUGE within those emails.

[WI_DEM]

63. bi-partisanship? hogwash! Lieberman is beholden to the GOP

for their support in the last election.

[helderheid]

64. so what does this mean - no investigations???

[Nutmegger]

65. KICK...

... because people have to know.

:kick:

[Liberal_Dog]

66. Gee, I'm Shocked

Yeah, right.

[wellst0nev0ter]

67. Okay, Maybe There Has To Be Some Parliamentary Loophole

Where members of the committee gets to overrule or circumvent the chairman somehow. Or the Senate can introduce a bill calling for an investigation of Katrina.

Come on, Quid Pro Joe can't have THIS much power.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

68. Unfortunately, you can't recall a Senator

I have a bad feeling that Lieberman will keep dangling the threat that he will cross over to the other side in front of the Dems, but never really deliver anything of substance to the Democratic Party. He'll always maintain the pretense that on some major upcoming vote in the future, he'll deliver. But he'll try to run out the scam for as long as he can.

The best thing to do is to try to get some other Republican Senator to go Indie or Dem and offer them Lieberman's Chairmanship, someone whose seat might be at risk in the next election. A moderate Republican at this point can be no worse than Joe.