The first is that during the 2006 campaign against Ned Lamont, Lieberman and his aides vowed multiple times that he would continue caucusing with the Democrats. The second is that Lieberman also vowed to help elect a Democrat to the White House in 2008.These days, as everyone knows by now, Joe's stumping for John McCain.
July 14, 2008
Senator McCain's BFF Senator Joe Lieberman
The former Democrat can't keep his promises straight. From Talkingpointsmemo, we learn two things that mainstream media seems to have forgotten:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
10 comments:
John K: Lieberman is the man! The Democrats threw him out of their party (so much for different opinions within the DNC) and now you whine because he does not support you. LOL Lieberman is going to address the Republican convention. He is the man! You are the whiners! LMAO
John K, you wingnuts can have Joe Lieberman with our blessings.
John K: Well that is not true dave. Reid/Durbin made a deal with Lieberman that if he voted with the Democrats they would allow him to chair homeland security. He did and does. Except on the war in Iraq. So in the real world the Democrats begged Lieberman to remain with them so the Senate would not go Republican. You lose.
ohn K: Well that is not true dave. Reid/Durbin made a deal with Lieberman that if he voted with the Democrats they would allow him to chair homeland security.
Wrong as usual troll boy. During his 2006 independent campaign, Lieberman repeatedly promised that if he was elected, he would caucus with the Democrats.
WRT the wingnut spin about the Democrats "throwing" Lieberman out of the party: during Lieberman's 2006 Primary campaign, a huge list of Democratic luminaries including Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Barack Obama came to Connecticut to campaign for him. It wasn't the Democratic party that rejected Joe Lieberman, it was the primary voters of Connecticut.
BTW, I would love to see how the wingnuts would react to a self-proclaimed Republican who repeatedly goes on Air America to bash his own party and who is photographed kissing Ted Kennedy.
John K. Wrong fair and balanced left winger. Durbin endorsed the Democratic candidate in that Senate election. Then after Lieberman won they went to him and offerred him the Homeland Security chair if he voted for Reid to be Senate leader. Now this same group is throwing Lieberman out of his chair after he gives his speech in Nov. You threw Lieberman under the bus. He threw the bus back. And the left is begging him to stay on. Which is why Lieberman is an independent and not a Democrat.
If the Democrats want to erase Hillary Clinton's debt (which will occur; she can use her general election money to help Sen. Obama, and the party can direct funds her way), here's a great idea for a fundraiser: A raffle for the right to tell Sen. Lieberman on Nov. 5 that, effective immediately, he has less influence in the Senate than the guy who decides the order in which requests for office repairs are addressed. I'd pay a couple of hundred bucks for the opportunity to deliver that message.
Sen. Lieberman is in a world of political pain, all of it self-inflicted. The Democrats will neither need nor want him, with feelings ranging from disowning him to inflicting as much political pain as possible. The Republicans seem unlikely to devote an ounce of political capital to protect him (not that they'll have any to spare after the general election), and I'm not sure they would want him to be their candidate next time around.
Had Lieberman any dignity, he would depart the Democratic Party before being thrown out. Perhaps that is what his apparent motion toward a Republican Convention appearance is about. But I don't think Sen. Lieberman can become a race-baiting, machine-gun-loving, gay-bashing religious kook fast enough to make a solid place for himself in the GOP.
Becoming a Republican just as they are beginning a stroll through the legislative wilderness? That's as good a plan as Sen. Lieberman has had on Bush's military policy.
speaking of joementum, from a diary currently on the rec list on the great orange satan:
"When I am king, I will ship Joe Lieberman to a lightless vault 3 miles into the earth's crust where he will fight a naked, oiled Dick Cheney for his food."
Made me laugh, out loud, for an extended period of time.
John K. Wrong fair and balanced left winger.
The troll called me "wrong" therefore I'm right:
The troll says:
John K. Wrong fair and balanced left winger. Durbin endorsed the Democratic candidate in that Senate election.
Gee, Dick Durbin, a prominent Democrat, endorsed the Democratic candidate in an election. What a HUGE surprise. Guess what, troll boy, it's customary for bigwigs in a given political party to endorse the party's nominee and the Democratic nominee for the Senate in 2006 was Ned Lamont, not Joe Lieberman. (It might also shock you to learn that prominent Republicans customarily endorse the Republican nominee in an election).
However in the Primary, Durbin supported Lieberman. Durbin wasn't alone, the following people also endorsed Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Primary:
# Former President Bill Clinton, who campaigned for Lieberman in Waterbury on July 24
# U.S. Senator Chris Dodd
# U.S. Senator and Minority Leader Harry Reid
# CA Senator Barbara Boxer, who campaigned for Lieberman on July 24
# DE Senator Joe Biden, HA Senator Daniel Inouye, CO Senator Ken Salazar, who campaigned for Lieberman on July 31
# NY Senator Hillary Clinton
# IL Senator Barack Obama
# IN Senator Evan Bayh
# NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg
# DE Senator Tom Carper
# CA Senator Diane Feinstein
# AR Senator Mark Pryor
# OR Senator Ron Wyden
# NE Senator Ben Nelson
So both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton endorse Lieberman in the 2006 Primary election and what does Lieberman do? He turns around and stabs them both in the back by backing John McCain two years later. Who threw who under the bus?
John K: Thanks for making my case fair and balanced fox news dave. Your quote. "...in the primary election..." Yep the primary. But Joe ran in the general and they all deserted him. Yah ran from him and endorsed the other guy. And then Lieberman won. LOL As an independent without all the DNC support. And then Reid / Durbin pooped all over themselves hoping he wouldn't give the Republicans the edge by shifting his vote. LMAO Thanks again for making my case for me.
Yeah, Lieberman lost the primary. He chose to run as a "Connecticut for Lieberman" candidate. So attacking Dems for endorsing Lamont, who was the Demcratic candidate, really doesn't make a lot of sense.
And Lieberman largely won because he lied to the people of Connecticut. This will most certainly be his last term as a Senator from Connecticut because of that.
But if the Republicans want to add another liar to the fold, they can have him.
Lieberman only agreed to the Senate's governing resolution because he knew he could parlay that into a political advantage for himself; and Democrats were pretty smart to allow him to caucus with them so they could retain control and determine who all the committee chairs were. It's called smart politics.
Lieberman will not be caucusing with the Democrats next year when they control 55-58 seats in the Senate.
The Zell Miller schtick is so 2004...
Post a Comment