Inquiring minds want to know.Recall that after, if I may be permitted to reach for le mot juste, thoroughly ratfucking the Dems last November, Lieberman was threatened with the loss of his committee chairmanship, but kept it after promising to be a good boy from...
holy joe lieberman (R-Conn)
This wouldn't even be debatable. The idea that Senators who vote to filibuster major initiatives of the party -- filibusters that are highly deleterious not only on the policy merits.
In other news, Joe Lieberman is still a national embarrassment.
As Ezra points out, as did a certain visiting dignitary yesterday, it must be said (painfully in my case) that the initial returns on Obama going with the "inside the tent pissing out" strategy with Lieberman have been positive. During the stimulus debate, at least,...
Michael Tomasky ranks 'em. These sorts of lists don't work, of course, unless your readers are able to respond with pronouncements along the lines of, "I can't believe he put.
Shorter Democratic Party: Please, endorse the other party's presidential candidate and smear ours. We don't mind!
I swear this is a "verbatim", not a "shorter," and we are aware of all internet traditions here:According to the aide, Lieberman's met with Harry Reid and discussions were very friendly. Reid wanted him to step down from his post as chairman of Homeland Security...
If only Senate elections were every two years:The new Q-Poll has Obama has crushing McCain 56 to 35 in Connecticut. No real surprise there. The same poll also finds that.
Holy Fucking Joe.Whenever election season rolls around, I remind my students that the "Vote for Xor you'll die" meme has been around in the US since at least 1824, when.
Good post."And now Lieberman is out there playing that 'toughness' card for John McCain. I just can't believe it. Back in 2006, I looked at Ned Lamont and I saw George McGovern. I looked at his supporters and I saw thousands of Abbie Hoffmans--almost like...
Shorter Joe Lieberman:What America needs right now is a president who -- like his cold war predecessors -- responds to every conceivable threat by launching disastrous, multi-decade wars that wreck.
Publius tries to make a case to keep him quasi-inside the tent. I do share his basic premise -- achieving legislative ends is more important than feeling good about punishing.