Joe Lieberman threatens filibuster on HCR

From TPM:

In a move that senior leadership aides say has left them stunned, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) that he will filibuster a tentative public option compromise unless it's stripped of its key component: a measure that would allow people aged 55-64 to buy insurance through Medicare

...because he is a complete piece of shit who has received close to a half million dollars from the insurance industry throughout his career and he'd rather that people literally die than risk upsetting his corporate masters. (My apologies to shit.)


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Fun with video and audio!

Joe Lieberman does interview on john! (And, we don't mean McCain.)


But, speaking of johns, Paris strikes back! (Sorry, John, not all very blond, very rich heiresses will put up with your crap.)


Now, if only she had called him a cunt...
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Where's Joe Lieberman Getting His News?

Via Greg Sargent and Eric Kleenfield over at TPMCafe:

Here's the text:

You know, Harry Reid said a while ago that the war in Iraq is lost. It's wrong. It's not lost. In fact, I would say we're beginning to win it. We've turned the tide with the new strategy. And in fact, I cannot conceive of a circumstance in which American forces would lose the war in Iraq, on the ground in Iraq. If we lose it, it's gonna be lost here at home, in a different kind of war for public opinion and political support."

Meanwhile out in reality.

The Green Zone (that heavily fortified section of Baghdad where the American and Iraqi facilities are) is still under attack:

At least 20 mortar rounds and Katyusha rockets struck the fortified Green Zone on Tuesday afternoon, killing an American service member and two other people in an attack on the heart of U.S. and Iraqi government facilities in the capital.

An Iraqi and a third person of unknown nationality were killed in the attack, according to a statement released by the U.S. Embassy. About 18 people were injured, including two U.S. military personnel and three American contract employees, the statement said.

Security is so bad there that a visiting Member of the US House of Representatives couldn't even leave the zone and had to wear body armor during the entire trip:

Security conditions in Iraq prevented Bachmann from meeting any Iraqis, leaving the Green Zone or staying in Iraq overnight. She and other congressional members were required to wear full body armor, including Kevlar helmets, during the entire trip, she said.

Of course, this House Member, being a loyal bushie, still believes in dubya's surge.

But [U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann] said she was encouraged by reports of progress from [U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan] Crocker, Gen. David Petraeus and other personnel in Iraq linked to the surge.

Although she did say elsewhere in the piece:

It hasn't had a chance to be in place long enough to offer a critique of how it's working.

Logic and consistency has never been this gang's strongest suit.

"When are we going to get out of here?"

An interesting snapshot from ground in dubya's war from the McClatchy papers:

Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.

The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.

He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

"When are we going to get out of here?"

Unfortunately, according to the article it's unclear whether Lieberman was ever asked any of those questions.